Imagining Religion In The Czech Republic

Author : Jakub Havlicek
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643963420

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Imagining Religion in the Czech Republic by Jakub Havlicek Pdf

How do we think about ourselves and others? Part one of the book examines the notion of human universals in cultural anthropology, psychology, linguistics, and in cognitive sciences. This part is focused on the issue of examining the processes of conceptualization, categorization and classification of human types and identities and it examines the role of psychological essentialism in these processes. It also focuses on the topic of religiously interpreted identities. Part two examines religiosity in modern Czech society. Contemporary Czech religiosity or lack thereof has been interpreted narrowly from the perspective of socially and culturally conceptualized factors. Other possible factors have been neglected – for example neuropsychological aspects. The World Religions Paradigm that underpins teaching about religions in Czech education system, is composed of reified concepts of religious traditions. This paradigm provides a basis for essentialised conceptualization of religiously interpreted identities in contemporary Czech society. Jakub Havlí?ek is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Cultural Anthropology, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Author : Jakub Havlicek
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643913425

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Imagining Religion in the Czech Republic by Jakub Havlicek Pdf

How do we think about ourselves and others? Part one of the book examines the notion of human universals in cultural anthropology, psychology, linguistics, and in cognitive sciences. This part is focused on the issue of examining the processes of conceptualization, categorization and classification of human types and identities and it examines the role of psychological essentialism in these processes. It also focuses on the topic of religiously interpreted identities. Part two examines religiosity in modern Czech society. Contemporary Czech religiosity or lack thereof has been interpreted narrowly from the perspective of socially and culturally conceptualized factors. Other possible factors have been neglected – for example neuropsychological aspects. The World Religions Paradigm that underpins teaching about religions in Czech education system, is composed of reified concepts of religious traditions. This paradigm provides a basis for essentialised conceptualization of religiously interpreted identities in contemporary Czech society.

Author : E. Thomas Lawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350355897

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Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion by E. Thomas Lawson Pdf

Uniting Thomas Lawson's essays on the cognitive science of religion, this volume explores theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena such as religion, the role of imagination, and the experiments that emerge from these theories. The book begins with Lawson's influential essay “Towards a Cognitive Science of Religion,” which was the first to employ the phrase, and has since become widely adopted in many different disciplines. It signals to scholars in the humanities that the cognitive revolution has finally reached them and serves to introduce them to the world of science. The rest of the book focuses on theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena and describes experiments by scholars working on the connections between cognition and culture. Described as "the grandfather of the cognitive science of religion," Lawson offers a unique perspective on the development of the field and the principles that underlie it, which will be relevant to both newcomers and established scholars.

Author : Ira Katznelson,Gareth Stedman Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139493178

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Religion and the Political Imagination by Ira Katznelson,Gareth Stedman Jones Pdf

The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global process by nineteenth-century thinkers, the theory was given substance by the precipitate drop in religious practice across Western Europe in the 1960s. However, the re-emergence of acute conflicts at the interface between religion and politics has confounded such assumptions. It is clear that these ideas must be rethought. Yet, as this distinguished, international team of scholars reveal, not everything contained in the idea of secularisation was false. Analyses of developments since 1500 reveal a wide spectrum of historical processes: partial secularisation in some spheres has been accompanied by sacralisation in others. Utilising new approaches derived from history, philosophy, politics and anthropology, the essays collected in Religion and the Political Imagination offer new ways of thinking about the urgency of religious issues in the contemporary world.

Author : Martin Nitsche,Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
Publisher : Verlag Traugott Bautz
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783959486606

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Image and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience by Martin Nitsche,Olga Louchakova-Schwartz Pdf

Author : Jiří Rajmund Tretera,Záboj Horák
Publisher : Kluwer Law International
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041158960

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Religion and Law in the Czech Republic by Jiří Rajmund Tretera,Záboj Horák Pdf

Author : Ted Turnau,Ruth Naomi Floyd
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789744743

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Imagination Manifesto by Ted Turnau,Ruth Naomi Floyd Pdf

Ted Turnau introduces readers to the major themes of his in-depth Oasis of Imagination by collaborating with Ruth Naomi Floyd. Floyd brings her distinctive experience as a Christian artist to make this a practical guide that distils the "why" and "how" of embracing Christian creative cultural engagement. Why does the church need to pay more attention to the imagination? How can we, in this day and age, best enter our cultural conversations for the common good? How can the local church better support its creatives, enriching its own imaginative life and building bridges to their neighbours and the wider culture? Whether you are a Christian artist or creative yourself, or an everyday Christian searching for a path beyond the culture wars and Christian bubble, Imagination Manifesto will give you biblical foundations, practical pointers, discussion starters, and inspiration for "planting oases" in today's culture.

Author : Ted Turnau
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789744774

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Oasis of Imagination by Ted Turnau Pdf

What should the church's cultural witness be? Too often, it has been marked by political strong-arming or fearful withdrawal into the "Christian bubble." There is another way: creative cultural engagement, using our imaginations to plant oases in the desert, breathable spaces that refresh, challenge, and draw together Christians and non-Christians alike. Oases refresh the soul, provoke discussion, challenge assumptions, and lead the imagination to a new place. In Oasis of Imagination, Ted Turnau lays out the Biblical mandate for engaging culture, and why the imaginative path holds promise. He explores the nature of the imagination from both Scripture and nature. He asks, "What makes a Christian imagination that resonates with non-Christians different?" He explores examples of Christian creativity done well from video games to movies to music to The Lord of the Rings. He challenges the church, artist and non-artist alike, to be intentional about their own imaginative lives, how artists and non-artists can support each other, as they together engage in building bridges and being cultural ambassadors to the wider community. In-depth and wide-ranging, Oasis of Imagination equips and encourages Christians, whatever their calling, to consider how to imaginatively enter into the broader cultural conversation, beyond the culture-warring and Christian bubbles. It seeks to provoke a conversation within the church between its artists and non-artists about how best to unleash our God-given creativity to shine light into the broader culture.

Author : Hans Joas,Klaus Wiegandt
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Sophia Rose Arjana
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199324927

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Muslims in the Western Imagination by Sophia Rose Arjana Pdf

Islam in the Western imagination -- The Muslim monster -- Medieval Muslim monsters -- Turkish monsters -- The monsters of Orientalism -- Muslim monsters in the Americas -- The monsters of September 11th.

Author : Saikou Y. Diallo,Wesley J. Wildman,F. LeRon Shults,Andreas Tolk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030170905

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Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications by Saikou Y. Diallo,Wesley J. Wildman,F. LeRon Shults,Andreas Tolk Pdf

This uniquely inspirational and practical book explores human simulation, which is the application of computational modeling and simulation to research subjects in the humanities disciplines. It delves into the fascinating process of collaboration among experts who usually don’t have much to do with one another – computer engineers and humanities scholars – from the perspective of the humanities scholars. It also explains the process of developing models and simulations in these interdisciplinary teams. Each chapter takes the reader on a journey, presenting a specific theory about the human condition, a model of that theory, discussion of its implementation, analysis of its results, and an account of the collaborative experience. Contributing authors with different fields of expertise share how each model was validated, discuss relevant datasets, explain development strategies, and frankly discuss the ups and downs of the process of collaborative development. Readers are given access to the models and will also gain new perspectives from the authors’ findings, experiences, and recommendations. Today we are in the early phases of an information revolution, combining access to vast computing resources, large amounts of human data through social media, and an unprecedented richness of methods and tools to capture, analyze, explore, and test hypotheses and theories of all kinds. Thus, this book’s insights will be valuable not only to students and scholars of humanities subjects, but also to the general reader and researchers from other disciplines who are intrigued by the expansion of the information revolution all the way into the humanities departments of modern universities.

Author : Mikhail Suslov
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838213613

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Geopolitical Imagination by Mikhail Suslov Pdf

In his timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russia’s policies. Specifically, he analyzes such concepts as “Eurasianism,” “Holy Russia,” “Russian civilization,” “Russia as a continent,” “Novorossia,” and others. He demonstrates that these concepts reached unprecedented ascendance in the Russian public debates, tending to overshadow other political and domestic discussions. Suslov argues that the geopolitical imagination, structured by these concepts, defines the identity of post-Soviet Russia, while this complex of geopolitical representations engages, at the same time, with the broader, international criticism of the Western liberal world order and aligns itself with the conservative defense of cultural authenticity across the globe. Geopolitical ideologies and utopias discussed in the book give the post-Soviet political mainstream the intellectual instruments to think about Russia’s exclusion—imaginary or otherwise—from the processes of a global world which is re-shaping itself after the end of the Cold War; they provide tools to construct the self-perception of Russia as a sovereign great-power, a self-sufficient civilization, and as one of the poles in a multipolar world; and they help to establish the Messianic vision of Russia as the beacon of order, tradition, and morality in a sea of chaos and corruption.

Author : Daniel Di Domizio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : 0773464751

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Religion in Secularized Culture by Daniel Di Domizio Pdf

This work represents a rare historical and theological reflection in the English language on the role of the Christian church in an eastern European community. The Czech Republic, one of the most secularized nations in Europe, presents a unique study of the struggle of the Christian Church to engage in a dialogue with a profoundly secularized society. The book begins with a brief historical overview of Czech religious history from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century and then goes on to both identify and analyze in greater depth the issues that have surfaced since the revolution of 1989 as an ecclesiastical culture clashes with an evolving secularized one dominated by goals determined by a new economic system. The author believes that the experience of the Church in the Czech Republic offers valuable insights to the universal Church as it confronts the phenomenon of secularization in its Twenty-First Century expression.

Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199830703

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Heaven in the American Imagination by Gary Scott Smith Pdf

Does heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in? Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no other topic captures the popular imagination quite like heaven. Gary Scott Smith examines how Americans from the Puritans to the present have imagined heaven. He argues that whether Americans have perceived heaven as reality or fantasy, as God's home or a human invention, as a source of inspiration and comfort or an opiate that distracts from earthly life, or as a place of worship or a perpetual playground has varied largely according to the spirit of the age. In the colonial era, conceptions of heaven focused primarily on the glory of God. For the Victorians, heaven was a warm, comfortable home where people would live forever with their family and friends. Today, heaven is often less distinctively Christian and more of a celestial entertainment center or a paradise where everyone can reach his full potential. Drawing on an astounding array of sources, including works of art, music, sociology, psychology, folklore, liturgy, sermons, poetry, fiction, jokes, and devotional books, Smith paints a sweeping, provocative portrait of what Americans-from Jonathan Edwards to Mitch Albom-have thought about heaven.

Author : András Gerő
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069218413

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Imagined History by András Gerő Pdf

Defining the modern nation as the product of a secular religion, Ger? considers national identity and how it gives rise to a symbolic politics.