Historicizing Secular Religious Demarcations

Author : Monika Wohlrab-Sahr,Daniel Witte,Christoph Kleine
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783111386744

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Historicizing Secular-Religious Demarcations by Monika Wohlrab-Sahr,Daniel Witte,Christoph Kleine Pdf

This volume aims to revitalize the exchange between sociological differentiation theory and the sociology of religion, which previously held center stage among the sociological classics. It brings together contributions from different disciplines, as well as various forms of regional and historical expertise, which are indispensable in forming a globally oriented sociological perspective today. Secularization is understood as a process of boundary demarcation, that is, as the enactment of semantic, practical, and institutional distinctions between religion and other spheres of activity and knowledge. These distinctions may emerge from within the religious field itself, or may be absorbed into the field having originally emerged elsewhere. They may even be directly imposed upon religion by external forces. The volume is therefore based on the premise that societal differentiation – and secularity as a specific expression of it – is a widespread structural feature that nonetheless takes on various forms, depending on its historical and cultural context. In order to make this diversity visible, the volume adopts a global comparative perspective, and examines historical distinctions and differentiations in the West and beyond. By examining different forms and modes of secularity in statu nascendi, the volume contributes to developing a better understanding of the diversity of secularities, even of those found in the present day, in terms of their historicity and their specific path dependencies. With this shift in perspective, this special volume initiates a global and historical turn in the theory of differentiation, as well as in the study of secularity.

Author : Mitsutoshi Horii
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030875169

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'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology by Mitsutoshi Horii Pdf

Informed by ‘critical religion’ perspective in Religious Studies and postcolonial self-reflection in Sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of ‘religion’ and ‘the secular’ in social theory and Sociology. It argues that as long as social theory and sociological discourse embed the religion-secular distinction and locate themselves on the ‘secular’ side of the binary, Sociology will continue to serve the very ideologies it tries to subvert – namely Western modernity/coloniality.

Author : William H. Swatos,Daniel V. A. Olson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742507610

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The Secularization Debate by William H. Swatos,Daniel V. A. Olson Pdf

Introduced to social scientific audiences by Max Weber, the concept of secularization has had a major influence on the way in which religion has been understood in the West. But at least since the late 1980s both the predictive and the descriptive adequacy of this concept have been seriously challenged. In the face of this challenge, The Secularization Debate offers a timely summary of the critical issues that have arisen over the past decade. With its wide range of essays by prominent international scholars, The Secularization Debate is sure to become a pivotal volume for anyone interested in the hotly contested concept of secularization and its continued relevance to the study of religion.

Author : Philip Nord,Katja Guenther,Max Weiss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691194165

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Formations of Belief by Philip Nord,Katja Guenther,Max Weiss Pdf

For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life—and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. Formations of Belief brings together many of today's leading historians to shed critical light on secularism's origins, its present crisis, and whether it is as antithetical to religion as it is so often made out to be. Formations of Belief offers a more nuanced understanding of the origins of secularist thought, demonstrating how Reformed Christianity and the Enlightenment were not the sole vessels of a worldview based on rationalism and individual autonomy. Taking readers from late antiquity to the contemporary era, the contributors show how secularism itself can be a form of belief and yet how its crisis today has been brought on by its apparent incapacity to satisfy people's spiritual needs. They explore the rise of the humanistic study of religion in Europe, Jewish messianism, atheism and last rites in the Soviet Union, the cult of the saints in colonial Mexico, religious minorities and Islamic identity in Pakistan, the neuroscience of religion, and more. Based on the Shelby Cullom Davis Center Seminars at Princeton University, this incisive book features illuminating essays by Peter Brown, Yaacob Dweck, Peter E. Gordon, Anthony Grafton, Brad S. Gregory, Stefania Pastore, Caterina Pizzigoni, Victoria Smolkin, Max Weiss, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman.

Author : James G. Crossley,Christian Karner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351142748

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Writing History, Constructing Religion by James G. Crossley,Christian Karner Pdf

Writing History, Constructing Religion presents a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of debates among historians, scholars of religion and cultural theorists over the 'nature' of history to the study of religion. The distinguished authors discuss issues related to definitions of history, postmodernism, critical theory, and the impact on the study and analysis of religious traditions; exploring the application of writing 'history from below', discussions of 'truth' and 'objectivity' as opposed to power and ideology, crises of representation, and the place of theory in the 'historicized' study of religion(s). Addressing conceptual debates in a wide range of historical and empirical contexts, the authors critically engage with issues including religious nationalism, Nazism, Islam and the West, secularism, religion in post-Communist Russia, ethnicity and post modernity. This book constitutes a significant step towards the self-reflexive and interdisciplinary study of religions in history.

Author : Giuseppe Giordan,Enzo Pace
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004230224

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Mapping Religion and Spirituality in a Postsecular World by Giuseppe Giordan,Enzo Pace Pdf

This volume offers 11 case studies of contemporary movements from around the world where religious, secular and spiritual dynamics interplay in the postmodern condition of the 21st century, as traditional and contemporary sources are combined in new and dynamic ways.

Author : Meredith B. McGuire
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478609636

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Religion by Meredith B. McGuire Pdf

In this insightful examination of religions in their local and global context, the author shows how analyzing religions social context helps us understand individuals lives, social movements, national and ethnic politics, and widespread social changes. Well-researched and theory-based, the text is filled with intriguing anecdotes, empirical data, thought-provoking discussions of both mainstream and nonofficial religions, and historical and contemporary examples that illustrate the interplay between religion and society across cultures. This volume takes an integrated approach to examining religion and includes cross-cultural, historical, and methodological viewpoints. Readers will learn to identify the complex interactions between religion and societal contexts, as well as the ways in which these interactions shape individuals, communities, national politics, and the world.

Author : Peter Beyer,Lori Beaman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047422716

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Religion, Globalization, and Culture by Peter Beyer,Lori Beaman Pdf

The topic of religion and globalization is complex, susceptible to a great variety of approaches. This book combines contributions from many authors who examine a wide range of subjects ranging from overall theoretical considerations to detailed regional perspectives. No single understanding of either religion or globalization is privileged.

Author : Nancy Tatom Ammerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195305418

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Everyday Religion by Nancy Tatom Ammerman Pdf

Attempting to let 'everyday religion' raise critical questions about how we understand the role of religion in society, this book examines the social circumstances of religion's presence and absence.

Author : Stijn Latré
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Civilization, Secular
ISBN : 1501308548

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Radical Secularization? by Stijn Latré Pdf

Author : Markus Dressler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190234096

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Writing Religion by Markus Dressler Pdf

In the late 1980s, the Alevis, at that time thought to be largely assimilated into the secular Turkish mainstream, began to assert their difference as they never had before. The question of Alevism's origins and its relation to Islam and to Turkish culture became a highly contested issue. According to the dominant understanding, Alevism is part of the Islamic tradition, although located on its margins. It is further assumed that Alevism is intrinsically related to Anatolian and Turkish culture, carrying an ancient Turkish heritage, leading back into pre-Islamic Central Asian Turkish pasts. Dressler argues that this knowledge about the Alevis-their demarcation as "heterodox" but Muslim and their status as carriers of Turkish culture-is in fact of rather recent origins. It was formulated within the complex historical dynamics of the late Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Turkish Republic in the context of Turkish nation-building and its goal of ethno-religious homogeneity.

Author : James A. Beckford,James T. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134392049

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Challenging Religion by James A. Beckford,James T. Richardson Pdf

Leading scholars examine the growth of new religious movements or cults in the US and Europe over the last 50 years and state attempts to monitor and control them, debating the political, practical and ethical issues which arise.

Author : Rene Provost
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199383023

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Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging by Rene Provost Pdf

For several decades, culture played a central role in challenging the liberal tradition. More recently however, religion has re-emerged as one of the central challenges facing Western liberal societies' conception of multiculturalism. Mapping the Legal Boundaries of Belonging explores the complex relationship between religion and multiculturalism and the role of the state and law in the creation of boundaries. The intersection between religion, nationalism and other vectors of difference in Canada and Israel offer an ideal laboratory in which to examine multiculturalism in particular and the governance of diversity in general. The contributors to this volume investigate concepts of religious difference and diversity and the ways in which these two states and legal systems understand and respond to them. As a consequence of a purportedly secular human rights perspective, they show, state laws may appear to define religious identity in a way that contradicts the definition found within a particular religion. Both state and religion make the same mistake if they take a court decision that emphasizes individual belief and practice as effecting a direct modification of a religious norm: the court lacks the power to change the authoritative internal definition of who belongs to a particular faith. Similarly, in the pursuit of a particular model of social diversity, the state may adopt policies that imply a particular private/public distinction foreign to some religious traditions.

Author : Srdjan Sremac,Ines W. Jindra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030406820

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Lived Religion, Conversion and Recovery by Srdjan Sremac,Ines W. Jindra Pdf

The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery. The contributions explore the complex interactions that occur between the person, the sacred, and various recovery situations, which can include prisons, substance abuse recovery settings and domestic violence shelters. With an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conversion, the collection provides an opportunity for a better understanding of lived religion, guilt, shame, hope, forgiveness, narrative identity reconstruction, religious coping, religious conversion and spiritual transformation. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of lived religion, religious conversion, recovery, homelessness, and substance dependence.

Author : Elizabeth A. Dreyer,Mark S. Burrows
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801880777

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Minding the Spirit by Elizabeth A. Dreyer,Mark S. Burrows Pdf

Sheldrake, Jon Sobrino, Wendy M. Wright--Bruce Hindmarsh "Books and Culture: A Christian Review"