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Title Dynamics of religion : past and present : proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Erfurt, August 23-29, 2015 / edited by Christoph Bochinger and Jörg Rüpke ; in cooperation with Elisabeth Begemann
Published Berlin : De Gruyter, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations
Series Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 0939-2580 ; Band 67
Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; Bd. 67.
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
historiography of religion
religion in society
spirituality
Notes International conference proceedings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English
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Subject Religion and culture.
Cultural pluralism.
Imperialism -- Religious aspects
Established churches.
Fuxi (Legendary character)
Shinto and state -- Japan
Buddhism -- Japan.
Apartheid -- South Africa -- Religious aspects
Islamic fundamentalism.
Judaism and culture.
RELIGION / General.
Apartheid -- Religious aspects
Buddhism
Cultural pluralism
Established churches
Fuxi (Legendary character)
Islamic fundamentalism
Judaism and culture
Religion and culture
Shinto and state
Japan
South Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Bochinger, Christoph, 1959- editor.
Rüpke, Jörg, editor.
LC no. 2017286179
ISBN 9783110450934
3110450933
9783110451108
3110451107