| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 0939-2580 ; Band 67 |
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Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; Bd. 67.
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| Contents |
Preface / Tim Jensen -- Introduction / Christoph Bochinger -- The dynamics of religions and cultural evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in contemporary China / Hubert Seiwert -- Religion and public space in contemporary Japan: Re-activation of the civilization of the axial age and the manifestation of State Shinto and Buddhism / Susume Shimazono -- The tactics of (in)visibility among religious communities in contemporary Europe / Kim Knott -- Religion intersecting de-nationalization and re-nationalization in post-apartheid South Africa / Gerald O. West -- Forms of religious communities in global society: tradition, invention, and transformation / Peter Beyer -- Subversive spirituality: political contributions of ancestral cosmologies decolonizing religious beliefs / Sylvia Marcos -- Religion and the historical imagination: esoteric tradition as poetic invention / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Religion and life trajectory: Islamists against self and other / Abdulkader Tayob -- Angels, animals and religious change in antiquity and today / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- Gaining access to the radically unfamiliar: religion in modern times / Kalpana Ram -- 'Cloning minds': Religion between individuals and collectives / Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- Of yellow teaching and black faith: entangled knowledge cultures and the creation of religious traditions / Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz -- Global intellectual history and the dynamics of relgion / Martin Muslow -- Narrating, performing and feeling a "religion": on representations of Judaism / Cristiana Facchini -- The President's Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress -- The General Secretary's Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress -- The Academic Program -- Abstracts. A Balancing Act: Minority Religious Communities and Processes of Transformation-Exploring Aniconism -- Exploring the Post-Secular-Pentecostalism and the Practice of Religions in Nigeria: Adaptation and Transformation -- Performance of Language: Space and Time in Meister Eckhart and Modism-The Work of Data: Methods in the Study of Religions -- Congress Committees -- Minutes of the International Committee Meeting -- Minutes of the General Assembly -- Minutes of the Women Scholars Network Meeting -- The Congress Directors' General Report on the XXI IAHR World Congress -- The Congress Administrator's Statistical Report |
| Summary |
Religious ideas, practices, discourses, institutions, and social expressions are in constant flux. This volume addresses the internal and external dynamics, interactions between individuals, religious communities, and local as well as global society. The contributions concentrate on four areas: 1. Contemporary religion in the public sphere: The Tactics of (In)visibility among Religious Communities in Europe; Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa;2. Religious transformations: Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society; Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies and the Decolonization of Religious Beliefs; Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention; 3. Focus on the individual: Religion and Life Trajectories of Islamists; Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today; Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar in Today's Religion; Religion between Individuals and Collectives; 4. Narrating religion: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religions in Mongolia and Europe; Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion; On Representing Judaism |
| Analysis |
Religious change |
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historiography of religion |
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religion in society |
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spirituality |
| Notes |
International conference proceedings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
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Religion and culture.
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Cultural pluralism.
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Imperialism -- Religious aspects
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Established churches.
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Fuxi (Legendary character)
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Shinto and state -- Japan
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Buddhism -- Japan.
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Apartheid -- South Africa -- Religious aspects
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Islamic fundamentalism.
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Judaism and culture.
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RELIGION / General.
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Apartheid -- Religious aspects
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Buddhism
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Cultural pluralism
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Established churches
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Fuxi (Legendary character)
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Islamic fundamentalism
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Judaism and culture
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Religion and culture
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Shinto and state
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Japan
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South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bochinger, Christoph, 1959- editor.
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Rüpke, Jörg, editor.
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| LC no. |
2017286179 |
| ISBN |
9783110450934 |
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3110450933 |
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9783110451108 |
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3110451107 |
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