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Dynamics of Religion : Past and Present. Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions / Christoph Bochinger, Jörg Rüpke.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; 67Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (305 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110450934
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 201/.7 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.C8 .D963 2017
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface / Jensen, Tim -- Introduction / Bochinger, Christoph -- The Dynamics of Religions and Cultural Evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in Contemporary China / Seiwert, Hubert -- Religion and Public Space in Contemporary Japan: Re-activation of the Civilization of the Axial Age and the Manifestation of State Shinto and Buddhism / Shimazono, Susumu -- The Tactics of (In)Visibility among Religious Communities in Contemporary Europe / Knott, Kim -- Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa / West, Gerald O. -- Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society: Tradition, Invention, and Transformation / Beyer, Peter -- Subversive Spirituality: Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies Decolonizing Religious Beliefs / Marcos, Sylvia -- Religion and the Historical Imagination: Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention / Hanegraaff, Wouter J. -- Religion and Life Trajectories: Islamists Against Self and Other / Tayob, Abdulkader -- Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today / Gilhus, Ingvild Sælid -- Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar: Religion in Modern Times / Ram, Kalpana -- 'Cloning Minds': Religion between Individuals and Collectives / Jensen, Jeppe Sinding -- Of Yellow Teaching and Black Faith: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religious Traditions / Kollmar-Paulenz, Karénina -- Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion / Mulsow, Martin -- Narrating, Performing and Feeling a 'Religion': On Representations of Judaism / Facchini, Cristiana -- 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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface / Jensen, Tim -- Introduction / Bochinger, Christoph -- The Dynamics of Religions and Cultural Evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in Contemporary China / Seiwert, Hubert -- Religion and Public Space in Contemporary Japan: Re-activation of the Civilization of the Axial Age and the Manifestation of State Shinto and Buddhism / Shimazono, Susumu -- The Tactics of (In)Visibility among Religious Communities in Contemporary Europe / Knott, Kim -- Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa / West, Gerald O. -- Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society: Tradition, Invention, and Transformation / Beyer, Peter -- Subversive Spirituality: Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies Decolonizing Religious Beliefs / Marcos, Sylvia -- Religion and the Historical Imagination: Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention / Hanegraaff, Wouter J. -- Religion and Life Trajectories: Islamists Against Self and Other / Tayob, Abdulkader -- Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today / Gilhus, Ingvild Sælid -- Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar: Religion in Modern Times / Ram, Kalpana -- 'Cloning Minds': Religion between Individuals and Collectives / Jensen, Jeppe Sinding -- Of Yellow Teaching and Black Faith: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religious Traditions / Kollmar-Paulenz, Karénina -- Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion / Mulsow, Martin -- Narrating, Performing and Feeling a 'Religion': On Representations of Judaism / Facchini, Cristiana -- 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

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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.

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