Global Religious And Secular Dynamics

Author : José Casanova
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004411982

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Global Religious and Secular Dynamics by José Casanova Pdf

Global Religious and Secular Dynamics integrates European theories of modern secularization and theories of global religious revival as interrelated dynamics. Casanova contrasts the internal European road of secularization with the external colonial road of global interreligious encounters and the globalization of the secular immanent frame with the expansion of global religious denominationalism.

Author : Christoph Bochinger,Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110450934

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Dynamics of Religion by Christoph Bochinger,Jörg Rüpke Pdf

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.

Author : Craig Calhoun,Mark Juergensmeyer,Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199911301

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Rethinking Secularism by Craig Calhoun,Mark Juergensmeyer,Jonathan VanAntwerpen Pdf

This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The volume will introduce readers to some of the most compelling new conceptual and theoretical understandings of secularism and the secular, while also examining socio-political trends involving the relationship between the religious and the secular from a variety of locations across the globe. In recent decades, the public has become increasingly aware of the important role religious commitments play in the cultural, social, and political dynamics of domestic and world affairs. This so called ''resurgence'' of religion in the public sphere has elicited a wide array of responses, including vehement opposition to the very idea that religious reasons should ever have a right to expression in public political debate. The current global landscape forces scholars to reconsider not only once predominant understandings of secularization, but also the definition and implications of secular assumptions and secularist positions. The notion that there is no singular secularism, but rather a range of multiple secularisms, is one of many emerging efforts to reconceptualize the meanings of religion and the secular. Rethinking Secularism surveys these efforts and helps to reframe discussions of religion in the social sciences by drawing attention to the central issue of how ''the secular'' is constituted and understood. It provides valuable insight into how new understandings of secularism and religion shape analytic perspectives in the social sciences, politics, and international affairs.

Author : Michael Rectenwald,Rochelle Almeida,George Levine
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614519317

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Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age by Michael Rectenwald,Rochelle Almeida,George Levine Pdf

Global Secularisms addresses the state of and prospects for secularism globally. Drawing from multiple fields, it brings together theoretical discussion and empirical case studies that illustrate "on-the-ground," extant secularisms as they interact with various religious, political, social, and economic contexts. Its point of departure is the fact that secularism is plural and that various secularisms have developed in various contexts and from various traditions around the world. Secularism takes on different social meanings and political valences wherever it is expressed. The essays collected here provide numerous points of contact between empirical case studies and theoretical reflection. This multiplicity informs and challenges the conceptual theorization of secularism as a universal doctrine. Analyses of different regions enrich our understanding of the meanings of secularism, providing comparative range to our notions of secularity. Theoretical treatments help to inform our understanding of secularism in context, enabling readers to discern what is at stake in the various regional expressions of secularity globally. While the bulk of the essays are case-based research, the current thinking of leading theorists and scholars is also included.

Author : Hans Joas,Klaus Wiegandt
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781802079357

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Secularization and the World Religions by Hans Joas,Klaus Wiegandt Pdf

The question of religion, its contemporary and future significance and its role in society and state is currently perceived as an urgent one by many and is widely discussed within the public sphere. But it has also long been one of the core topics of the historically oriented social sciences. The immense stock of knowledge furnished by the history of religion and religious studies, theology, sociology and history has to be introduced into the public conscience today. This can promote greater awareness of the contemporary global religious situation and its links with politics and economics and counter rash syntheses such as the “clash of civilizations”. This volume is concerned with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. The first part deals with major religious traditions and their explicit or implicit ideas about the individual, social and political order. The second part gives an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas. Additional contributions analyze the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion in a global perspective and the role of the natural sciences in the process of secularization. The contributors are internationally renowned scholars like Winfried Brugger, José Casanova, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Hans Joas, Hans G. Kippenberg, Gudrun Krämer, David Martin, Eckart Otto and Rudolf Wagner.

Author : Timothy Samuel Shah,Alfred Stepan,Monica Duffy Toft
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199827978

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Rethinking Religion and World Affairs by Timothy Samuel Shah,Alfred Stepan,Monica Duffy Toft Pdf

Drawing on the work of leading scholars as well as policy makers and analysts, this volume offers the most comprehensive and accessible exploration to date of the major puzzles, issues, and questions surrounding the complex and increasingly visible role of religion in world affairs.

Author : David Westerlund
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850652414

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Questioning the Secular State by David Westerlund Pdf

Should the state be secular or religious. Here the author seeks to determine the extent of the role of religion in political life.

Author : Peter B. Clarke,Peter Beyer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135211004

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The World's Religions by Peter B. Clarke,Peter Beyer Pdf

This comprehensive volume focuses on the world's religions and the changes they have undergone as they become more global and diverse in form. It explores the religions of the world not only in the regions with which they have been historically associated, but also looks at the new cultural and religious contexts in which they are developing. It considers the role of migration in the spread of religions by examining the issues raised for modern societies by the increasing interaction of different religions. The volume also addresses such central questions as the dynamics of religious innovation which is evidenced in the rise and impact of new religious and new spirituality movements in every continent.

Author : Irfan Ahmad,Jie Kang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030855802

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The Nation Form in the Global Age by Irfan Ahmad,Jie Kang Pdf

This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nation, it discuss practices of nationalism vis-a-vis migration, rituals of sacrifice and prayer, music, media, e-commerce, Islamophobia, bare life, secularism, literature and atheism. The volume offers new understandings of nationalism in a broader perspective. The text will appeal to students and researchers interested in nationalism outside of the West, especially those working in anthropology, sociology and history.

Author : Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198036027

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Global Religions by Mark Juergensmeyer Pdf

The essays collected here provide brief and accessible introductions to the major world religions in their global contexts. The volume begins with an introduction to the globalization of religion by Mark Juergensmeyer, and is followed by individual essays on Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and local religious societies. The book concludes with three essays reflecting on the global religious scene. Taken together, these essays provide a concise, authoritative, and highly readable introduction to the state of worldwide religion in the 21st century.

Author : E. Wilson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230355316

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After Secularism by E. Wilson Pdf

Having destabilized dominant assumptions about the nature of religion, there is now a need to develop new ways of thinking about this ever-present phenomenon in global politics. This book outlines a new approach to understanding religion and its relationship with politics in the West and globally for International Relations.

Author : Olivia J. Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429581984

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Secular and Religious Dynamics in Humanitarian Response by Olivia J. Wilkinson Pdf

This book investigates the ways in which the humanitarian system is secular and understands religious beliefs and practices when responding to disasters. The book teases out the reasons why humanitarians are reluctant to engage with what are seen as "messy" cultural dynamics within the communities they work with, and how this can lead to strained or broken relationships with disaster-affected populations and irrelevant and inappropriate disaster assistance that imposes distant and relatively meaningless values. In order to interrogate secular boundaries within humanitarian response, the book draws particularly on qualitative primary data from the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The case study shows how religious practices and beliefs strongly influenced people's disaster experience, yet humanitarian organisations often failed to recognise or engage with this. Whilst secularity in the humanitarian system does not completely exclude religious participation and expression, it does create biases and boundaries. Many humanitarians view their secularity as essential to their position of impartiality and cultural sensitivity in comparison to what were seen as the biased and unprofessional beliefs and practices of religions and religious actors, even though disaster-affected people felt that it was the secular humanitarians that were less impartial and culturally sensitive. This empirically driven examination of the role of secularity within humanitarianism will be of interest to the growing field of "pracademic" researchers across NGOs, government, consultancy, and think tanks, as well as researchers working directly within academic institutions.

Author : Barry Alexander Kosmin,Ariela Keysar
Publisher : ISSSC
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Secularism
ISBN : 9780979481604

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Secularism & Secularity by Barry Alexander Kosmin,Ariela Keysar Pdf

Author : Jeff Haynes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317886662

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Religion in Global Politics by Jeff Haynes Pdf

One of the most resilient ideas about societal development after World War II was that nations would inevitably secularise as they modernised. However, as we come to the end of the 'secular' twentieth century, it is obvious that religion continues to be an important factor in politics around the world. The author examines the continuing importance of religion, focusing upon the regions of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

Author : Pippa Norris,Ronald Inglehart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139499668

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Sacred and Secular by Pippa Norris,Ronald Inglehart Pdf

This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before. This second edition expands the theory and provides new and updated evidence from a broad perspective and in a wide range of countries. This confirms that religiosity persists most strongly among vulnerable populations, especially in poorer nations and in failed states. Conversely, a systematic erosion of religious practices, values and beliefs has occurred among the more prosperous strata in rich nations.