Living Folk Religions

Author : Sravana Borkataky-Varma,Aaron Michael Ullrey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000878622

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Living Folk Religions by Sravana Borkataky-Varma,Aaron Michael Ullrey Pdf

Living Folk Religions presents cutting-edge contributions from a range of disciplines to examine religious folkways across cultures. This collection embraces the non-elite and non-sanctioned, the oral, fluid, accessible, evolving religions of people (volk) on the ground. Split into five sections, this book covers: What Is Folk Religion? Spirit Beings and Deities Performance and Ritual Praxis Possession and Exorcism Health, Healing, and Lifestyle Topics include demons and ambivalent gods, tree and nature spirits, revolutionary renunciates, oral lore, possession and exorcism, divination, midwestern American spiritualism, festivals, queer sexuality among ritual specialists, the dead returned, vernacular religions, diaspora adaptations, esoteric influences underlying public cultures, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), music and sound experiences, death rituals, and body and wellness cultures. Living Folk Religions is a must-read for those studying Comparative Religions, World Religions, and Religious Studies, and it will also interest specialists and general readers, particularly enthusiastic readers of Anthropology, Folklore and Folk Studies, Global Studies, and Sociology.

Author : Marion Bowman,Ulo Valk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317543534

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Vernacular Religion in Everyday Life by Marion Bowman,Ulo Valk Pdf

Vernacular religion is religion as people experience, understand, and practice it. It shapes everyday culture and disrupts the traditional boundaries between 'official' and 'folk' religion. The book analyses vernacular religion in a range of Christian denominations as well as in indigenous and New Age religion from the nineteenth century to today. How these differing expressions of belief are shaped by their individual, communal and national contexts is also explored. What is revealed is the consistency of genres, the persistence of certain key issues, and how globalization in all its cultural and technological forms is shaping contemporary faith practice. The book will be valuable to students of ethnology, folklore, religious studies, and anthropology.

Author : Paul G. Hiebert,R. Daniel Shaw,Tite Tienou
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385200573

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Understanding Folk Religion: 25th Anniversary Edition by Paul G. Hiebert,R. Daniel Shaw,Tite Tienou Pdf

This book has served the missiological community for twenty-five years as a resource for understanding human spirituality in any context. Thousands of students have incorporated the principles of this book into ministry around the globe. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition seeks to enable those who now bring their passion for mission to contemporary contexts affected by globalization, climate change, and political perspectives unimagined when this book originally appeared. Every community, wherever it is on earth, has its share of beliefs and values that manifest themselves in practices that reflect spiritual engagement. Those engaged in mission need to appreciate how underlying beliefs and values are reflected in handling spiritual power, worship and blessing, and interaction with others. Gospel communicators must account for these elements as they seek to make God’s intentions known to people who are searching for God. The models presented early in the book are essential for establishing what people consider spiritually critical. Applying these models in any religious environment will enable message-bearers to engage with beliefs and practices that promote a gospel presentation that makes sense. To that end, we commend this book for effective missional engagement.

Author : Chun-sik Ch?oe
Publisher : Ewha Womans University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8973006282

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Folk-religion by Chun-sik Ch?oe Pdf

Author : Laura Stark
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789517465786

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Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises by Laura Stark Pdf

Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors. This colorful array of ritulas and beliefs involving nature spirits, saints, the dead, and pilgrimage to monasteries represented a unigue fusion of official Church ritual and doctrine and pre-Christian ethnic folk belief. This book undertakes a fascinating exploration into many aspects of Orthodox Karelian ritual life: beliefs in supernatural forces, folk models of illness, body concepts, divination, holy icons, the role of the ritual specialist and healer, the divide between nature and culture, images of forest, the cult of the dead, and the popular image of monasteries and holy hermits. It will appeal to anyone interested in popular religion, the cognitive study of religion, ritual studies, medical anthropology, and the folk traditions and symbolism of the Balto-Finnic peoples.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141955049

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The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions by Anonim Pdf

Comprehensive, informative and authoritative, The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions is compiled by a team of leading international scholars, and is the definitive guide to the religious belief systems and practices of the world today. This in-depth survey of active religions has now been fully updated to include modern developments and the most recent scholarship. It explains the sources and history of the world's religions, includes material on the phenomenon of Black African and Asian diaspora religions around the world and explores the role of gender in modern religion.

Author : Jeffrey J. Kripal,Ata Anzali,Andrea R. Jain,Erin Prophet,Stefan Sanchez
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119654025

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Comparing Religions by Jeffrey J. Kripal,Ata Anzali,Andrea R. Jain,Erin Prophet,Stefan Sanchez Pdf

Teaches students the art and practice of comparison in the globalizing world, fully updated to reflect recent scholarship and major developments in the field Comparing Religions: The Study of Us that Changes Us is a wholly original, absorbing, and provocative reimagining of the comparative study of religion in the 21st century. The first textbook of its kind to foreground the extraordinary or “paranormal” aspects of religious experience, this innovative volume reviews the fundamental tenets of the world’s religions, discusses the benefits and problems of comparative inquiry, explores how the practice can impact a person's worldview and values, and much more. Asserting that religions have always engaged in comparing one another, the authors provide insights into the history, trends, debates, and questions of explicit comparativism in the modern world. Easily accessible chapters examine the challenges of studying religion using a comparative approach rather than focusing on religious identity, inspiring students to think seriously about religious pluralism as they engage in comparative practice. Throughout the text, a wealth of diverse case studies and vivid illustrations are complemented by chapter outlines, summaries, toolkits, discussion questions, and other learning features. Substantially updated with new and revised material, the second edition of Comparing Religions: Draws from both comparative work and critical theory to present a well-balanced introduction to contemporary practice Explains classic comparative themes, provides a historical outline of comparative practices, and offers key strategies for understanding, analyzing, and re-reading religion Draws on a wide range of religious traditions to illustrate the complexity and efficacy of comparative practice Embraces the transcendent nature of the religious experience in all its forms, including in popular culture, film, and television Contains a classroom-proven, three-part structure with easy-to-digest, thematically organized chapters Features a companion website with information on individual religious traditions, additional images, a glossary, discussion questions, and links to supplementary material Comparing Religions: The Study of Us that Changes Us, Second Edition, is the perfect textbook for undergraduate students and faculty in comparative religion, the study of religion, and world religions, as well as a valuable resource for general readers interested in understanding this rewarding area.

Author : Esben Andreasen,Ian Reader,Finn Stefansson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134238583

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Japanese Religions Past and Present by Esben Andreasen,Ian Reader,Finn Stefansson Pdf

Each of the eight chapters deals with a specific topic, such as Shinto, Buddhism, the new religions, and Christianity; there is an introduction that outlines the subject to be considered followed by a series of readings.

Author : Robert S. Ellwood
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438110387

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The Encyclopedia of World Religions by Robert S. Ellwood Pdf

Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.

Author : Anjana Narayan,Bandana Purkayastha
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781565492707

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Living Our Religions by Anjana Narayan,Bandana Purkayastha Pdf

The population of the South Asian Diaspora in the US is over 2.5 million people. Yet in a post 9/11 climate of opinion, little is known about this group beyond images of Muslim and Hindu fundamentalists and terrorists. This is particularly true of women where simplistic assumptions about veils and subordination obscure the voices of the women themselves. Rarely are Hindu and Muslim American women—many of whom are social workers, physicians, lawyers, academics, students, homemakers—asked about their everyday lives and religious beliefs. Living our Religions brings out these hidden stories from South Asian American women of Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Indian and Nepali origin. Their accounts show how diverse and culturally dynamic religious practices emerge within the intersection of histories and politics of specific locales. The authors describe the race, gender, and ethnic boundaries they encounter; they also document how they resist and challenge these boundaries. Living our Religions cuts through the myths and ethnocentrism of popular portrayals to reveal the vibrancy, courage and agency of an invisible minority. Other Contributors: Shobha Hamal Gurung, Selina Jamil, Salma Kamal, Shweta Majumdar, Bidya Ranjeet, Shanthi Rao, Aysha Saeed, Monoswita Saha, Neela, Bhattacharya Saxena, Parveen Talpur, Elora Halim Chowdhury and Rafia Zakaria

Author : Jacques Waardenburg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110473599

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Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion by Jacques Waardenburg Pdf

Waardenburg’s magisterial essay traces the rise and development of the academic study of religion from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, outlining the establishment of the discipline, its connections with other fields, religion as a subject of research, and perspectives on a phenomenological study of religion. Futhermore a second part comprises an anthology of texts from 41 scholars whose work was programmatic in the evolution of the academic study of religion. Each chapter presents a particular approach, theory, and method relevant to the study of religion. The pieces selected for this volume were taken from the discipline of religious studies as well as from related fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology, to name a few.

Author : Steven J. Sutcliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351904810

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Religion: Empirical Studies by Steven J. Sutcliffe Pdf

Treating 'religion' as a fully social, cultural, historical and material field of practice, this book presents a series of debates and positions on the nature and purpose of the 'Study of Religions', or 'Religious Studies'. Offering an introductory guide to this influential, and politically relevant, academic field, the contributors illustrate the diversity and theoretical viability of qualitative empirical methodologies in the study of religions. The historical and cultural circumstances attending the emergence, defence, and future prospects of Religious Studies are documented, drawing on theoretical material and case studies prepared within the context of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR), and making frequent reference to wider European, North American, and other international debates and critiques.

Author : Alan Greenhalgh
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780244313555

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Reincarnation and Misfortune in Old & Modern Japan: An Investigation of Traditional Beliefs and Modern Thought – Including the Hatsushiba Transcripts by Alan Greenhalgh Pdf

This book examines the history of reincarnation in Japan and shows how the idea has developed over time. It looks at exactly what reincarnation is and where it originated. The book also examines reincarnation and tradition, reincarnation and psychology and analyses reincarnation in the context of religion. It offers some curious tales from Japanese history which offer detailed explanations of real incidents of rebirth. The book also looks at the Japanese media and the occult in the modern age. Western views of reincarnation and Eastern Buddhist and Shinto views are also investigated. The book's purpose is to both inform serious students of Japanese history, Japanese religions and reincarnation and the wider public who have an abiding interest in all things Asian, and in particular the customs and traditions of Japan.

Author : Richard J. Gehman
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9966253548

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African Traditional Religion in Biblical Perspective by Richard J. Gehman Pdf

Author : John Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2431 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135455866

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The New York Times Almanac 2002 by John Wright Pdf

The New York Times Almanac 2002 is the almanac of record. Drawing on the resources of the world's premier news organization. it provides readers with a wealth of data about the United States and the wort n a readable and more easily accessible form than other fad finders. Un-rivaled in scope and unsurpassed in comprehensiveness. The New York Times Almanac pays careful attention to significant issues. topics. and developments of the day and sets them in historical context. It gives the stories-and the stories behind the stories. The New York Times Almanac is the first choice for stu­dents. journalists, and researchers-for anyone who needs timely. accurate information about the United States and other nations around the globe. The New York Times Almanac 2002 includes: The first results of the 2000 Census; Comprehensive coverage of all the states and every nation in the world; World Series results and the most comprehensive sports section of any almanac; Notable obituaries from the worlds of politics. entertainment. and science; More information about the Internet. the worldwide AIDS epidemic. and world population than any other almanac; The most complete coverage of environmental issues. the economy, and the workings of the federal government; All major Academy Award winners since 1928 and the names of all Nobel Laureates and why they won and much, much more.