Paganism And Its Discontents

Author : Holli S. Emore,Jonathan M. Leader
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527558496

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Paganism and Its Discontents by Holli S. Emore,Jonathan M. Leader Pdf

Proponents of racist interpretations of pre-Christian Norse-Germanic spiritualities have claimed to be preserving “heritage,” while others belonging to the contemporary Heathen movements have moved to distance themselves from “volkish” thinking. Long-simmering just beneath the surface of American Paganism, racialized Heathenry was on full display in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The contributions to this volume delineate between two communities that are using shared symbolism for widely different purposes. The book will serve to broaden understanding of the narratives in play here, resulting in mitigation of the rising tide of hate and racialized identity.

Author : Holli S. Emore,Jonathan M. Leader
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527596249

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Paganism and Its Discontents by Holli S. Emore,Jonathan M. Leader Pdf

Proponents of racist interpretations of pre-Christian Norse-Germanic spiritualities have claimed to be preserving "heritage," while others belonging to the contemporary Heathen movements have moved to distance themselves from "volkish" thinking. Long-simmering just beneath the surface of American Paganism, racialized Heathenry was on full display in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The contributions to this volume delineate between two communities that are using shared symbolism for widely different purposes. The book will serve to broaden understanding of the narratives in play here, resulting in mitigation of the rising tide of hate and racialized identity.

Author : T. Ngo,J. Quijada
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137438386

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Atheist Secularism and its Discontents by T. Ngo,J. Quijada Pdf

Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents takes a comparative approach to understanding religion under communism, arguing that communism was integral to the global experience of secularism. Bringing together leading researchers whose work spans the Eurasian continent, it shows that appropriating religion was central to Communist political practices.

Author : Zachariah Rush
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786475384

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Cinema and Its Discontents by Zachariah Rush Pdf

The ultimate aim of drama is to expose the soul of Character. Dramatists achieve this objective by employing a specific type of conflict known as dialectic, a concept woven throughout Western thinking and--from Homer to 21st century cinema--the basis of all dramatic characters. This study details the history of dialectical thought from Plato to Jung before turning its focus to the development of character in a century of filmmaking. From Chaplin's Tramp to Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle, it examines more than two dozen cinematic characters governed by dialectic--torn between life and death, opposing desires, moralities and wills, their sense of self threatened by others.

Author : Michael A. Cook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691236582

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A History of the Muslim World by Michael A. Cook Pdf

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity. After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific. At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.

Author : Murphy Pizza,James R. Lewis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004163737

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Handbook of Contemporary Paganism by Murphy Pizza,James R. Lewis Pdf

Contemporary Paganism is a movement that is still young and establishing its identity and place on the global religious landscape. The members of the movement are simultaneously growing, unifying, and maintaining its characteristic diversity of traditions, identities, and rituals. The modern Pagan movement has had a restless formation period but has also been the catalyst for some of the most innovative religious expressions, praxis, theologies, and communities. As Contemporary Paganism continues to grow and mature, new angles of inquiry about it have emerged and are explored in this collection. This examination and study of contemporary Paganism contributes new ways to observe and examine other religions, where innovations, paradoxes, and inconsistencies can be more accurately documented and explained.

Author : Rob Warner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441183859

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Secularization and Its Discontents by Rob Warner Pdf

Secularization and Its Discontents provides an illuminating overview of major current debates in the sociology of religion, exploring changing patterns of religious practice in the West during the past 150 years. Examining classical secularization theory as well as modified versions that allow for difference between national and social contexts, Rob Warner also explores the proposed post-secularization paradigm, as well as its close offshoot, rational choice theory. Possibilities for a spiritual revolution and the feminisation of religion are scrutinised, and also theories of the durability of conservative religion. The author goes on to develop a new interpretation of resilient religion from an analysis of 21st century trends in religious participation. These are categorised as entrepreneurial and experiential-therapeutic, before the volume finally focuses upon individual identity construction through autonomous religious consumption. This book provides a clear and penetrating overview of theoretical frameworks and develops a new theoretical synthesis derived from fresh examination of empirical data, and will be of interest to academics and students in religious studies, practical theology and the sociology of religion.

Author : Brian Steensland,Jaime Kucinskas,Anna Sun
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197565001

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Situating Spirituality by Brian Steensland,Jaime Kucinskas,Anna Sun Pdf

"Spirituality is in the spotlight. While levels of religious belief and observance are declining in much of the Western world, interest in spirituality is surging. This volume advances our understanding of contemporary spirituality by highlighting its profoundly social dimensions. It demonstrates how spirituality is shaped by its religious, cultural, and political contexts; how embodied and collective spiritual practices undergird spiritual life and intersect with social characteristics (e.g., race, gender, and sexuality); and how spirituality is impacted by power relations and institutional arrangements. The contributors are leading international scholars and their chapters address spirituality in a wide range of religious and global contexts"--

Author : Andrew C. Wegley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X77920

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The Neighborhood and Its Discontents by Andrew C. Wegley Pdf

Author : Marion Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415674188

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Imagining the Pagan Past by Marion Gibson Pdf

Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse, encouraging tribal and nationalistic feelings or challenging church and state. This book shows how important these stories are to the history of British culture, taking the reader on a lively tour from prehistory to the present. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which British pagan gods and goddesses have been represented in poetry, novels, plays, chronicles, scientific and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores Romano-British, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon deities and fictions. The result is a comprehensive picture of the ways in which writers have peopled the British pagan pantheons throughout history. Imagining the Pagan Past will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of paganism.

Author : Jefferson F. Calico
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1781792224

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Being Viking by Jefferson F. Calico Pdf

Being Viking provides a rigorous ethnographic account of the Asatru religion in America, also known as Heathenry or Heathenism. Arising from five years of original ethnographic fieldwork among American Asatru adherents, the book expands our understanding of this religious movement as part of the American religious context.

Author : Michael York
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319189239

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Pagan Ethics by Michael York Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive examination of the ethical parameters of paganism when considered as a world religion alongside Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism. The issues of evil, value and idolatry from a pagan perspective are analyzed as part of the Western ethical tradition from the Sophists and Platonic schools through the philosophers Spinoza, Hume, Kant and Nietzsche to such contemporary thinkers as Grayling, Mackie, MacIntyre, Habermas, Levinas, Santayana, etc. From a more practical viewpoint, a delineation of applied pagan ethics is then presented in connection with current moral issues such as same-sex union, recreational drugs, environmental awareness, abortion and terrorism. Finally, overviews of sectarian pagan ethics (Shinto, Santeria, Heathenism, Druidry, Romuva, Slavic, Kemeticism, Classical and Wicca) provide both the general and pagan reader with an understanding of the provocative range and differentiation of pagan ethical thought. The book approaches the Western ethical tradition as an historical development and a continuing dialogue. The novelty of this approach lies in its consideration of paganism as a legitimate voice of religious spirituality rather than a satanic aberration or ridiculous childish behavior. The book is aimed at both the contemporary Western pagan and anyone with an interest in the moral dilemmas of our times and the desire to engage in the global ethical discussion. Among the more important features of the book are its presentation of a re-evaluation of idolatry, the notion of the virtue value, the richness of the pagan tradition, and the expansion of Western ethics beyond its Christian heritage.

Author : Erich Douglas Lippman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P01026407Z

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Secularism and Its Discontents by Erich Douglas Lippman Pdf

Author : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190277536

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The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson Pdf

Late antiquity extends from the accession of the Christian emperor Constantine to the rise of Muhammad and early Islam (ca. 300-700 AD). This volume takes account of the scholarship published in the last 30 years and provide a foundational synthesis for students of late antiquity.

Author : J. A. S. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134559763

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The Age of Justinian by J. A. S. Evans Pdf

The Age of Justinian examines the reign of the great emperor Justinian (527-565) and his wife Theodora, who advanced from the theatre to the throne. The origins of the irrevocable split between East and West, between the Byzantine and the Persian Empire are chronicled, which continue up to the present day. The book looks at the social structure of sixth century Byzantium, and the neighbours that surrounded the empire. It also deals with Justinian's wars, which restored Italy, Africa and a part of Spain to the empire.