Religion Modernity Globalisation

Author : François Gauthier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000725971

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Religion, Modernity, Globalisation by François Gauthier Pdf

This book argues that the last four decades have seen profound and important changes in the nature and social location of religion, and that those changes are best understood when cast against the associated rise of consumerism and neoliberalism. These transformations are often misunderstood and underestimated, namely because the study of religion remains dependent on the secularisation paradigm which can no longer provide a sufficiently fruitful framework for analysis. The book challenges diagnoses of transience and fragmentation by proposing an alternative narrative and set of concepts for understanding the global religious landscape. The present situation is framed as the result of a shift from a National-Statist to a Global-Market regime of religion. Adopting a holistic perspective that breaks with the current specialisation tendencies, it charts the emergence of the State and the Market as institutions and ideas related to social order, as well as their changing rapports from classical modernity to today. Breaking with a tradition of Western-centeredness, the book offers probing enquiries into Indonesia and a synthesis of global and Western trends. This long-awaited book offers a bold new vision for the social scientific study of religion and will be of great interest to all scholars of the Sociology and Anthropology of religion, as well as Religious Studies in general.

Author : Thomas Jansen,Thoralf Klein,Christian Meyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004271517

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Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China by Thomas Jansen,Thoralf Klein,Christian Meyer Pdf

Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China, co-edited by Thomas Jansen, Thoralf Klein and Christian Meyer, investigates the transformation of China’s religious landscape under the impact of global influences since 1800. The interdisciplinary case studies analyze the ways in which processes of globalization are interlinked with localizing tendencies, thereby forging transnational relationships between individuals, the state and religious as well as non-religious groups at the same time that the global concept ‘religion’ embeds itself in the emerging Chinese ‘religious field’ and within the new academic disciplines of Religious Studies and Theology. The contributions unravel the intellectual, social, political and economic forces that shaped and were themselves shaped by the emergence of what has remained a highly contested category. The contributors are: Hildegard Diemberger, Vincent Goossaert, Esther-Maria Guggenmos, Thomas Jansen, Thoralf Klein, Dirk Kuhlmann, LAI Pan-chiu, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Christian Meyer, Lauren Pfister, Chloë Starr, Xiaobing Wang-Riese, and Robert P. Weller.

Author : Peter van der Veer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0415912733

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Conversion to Modernities by Peter van der Veer Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Dimitrios Methenitis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000007336

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Globalization, Modernity and the Rise of Religious Fundamentalism by Dimitrios Methenitis Pdf

The emergence of religious fundamentalism in a globalized, post-colonial world poses a significant challenge to the "End of History" narratives common in academic and non-academic literature alike. Globalization, Modernity and the Rise of Religious Fundamentalism proposes that we must seek new explanations for this phenomenon that recasts the relationship between globalization, modernity and religion. One model through which this possible is that of a dialectical kaleidoscopic methodology – one that applies a variety of theoretical tools and takes a truly multi-dimensional perspective. Through the overlapping and complementary approaches of systems theory, field theory and network theory, this book redefined the concepts of globalization, modernity and religion itself by challenging the inherent misconceptions of ethnocentric biases. It also provides a thorough historical analysis of religious systems from antiquity to the present to show the integration of modern and archaic elements within the structure of religious fundamentalism. Interdisciplinary in nature, Globalization, Modernity and the Rise of Religious Fundamentalism will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as geopolitics, history of race and ethnicity, postcolonialism, globalization and sociology of religion.

Author : Patrick Michel,Adam Possamai,Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137580115

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Religions, Nations, and Transnationalism in Multiple Modernities by Patrick Michel,Adam Possamai,Bryan S. Turner Pdf

This edited book explores the impact of globalisation on the relationship between religion and politics, religion and nation, religion and nationalism, and the impact that transnationalism has on religious groups. In a post-Westphalian and transnational world, with increased international communication and transportation, a plethora of new religious recompositions religions now take part in a network society that cuts across borders. This collection, through its analysis of historical and contemporary case studies, explores the growth of both national and transnational religious movements and their dealings with the various versions of modernity that they encounter. It considers trends of religious revitalisation and secularisation, and processes of nationalism and transnationalism through the prism of the theory of multiple modernities, acknowledging both its pluralist world view but also the argument that its definition of modernity is often so inclusive as to lose coherence. Providing a cutting edge take on 21st century religion and globalization, this volume is a key read for all scholars of religion, secularisation and transnationalism.

Author : Birgit Schaebler,Leif Stenberg
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815630247

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Globalization and the Muslim World by Birgit Schaebler,Leif Stenberg Pdf

Written by scholars from a range of disciplines concerned with the Middle East and Islam (history, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, political science) and covering the Muslim world extensively (from Malaysia, Turkey, Sudan, Egypt, and Israel/Palestine to Muslim communities in Europe and the United States), this important contribution to the debate on globalization sets a standard in dealing with this pervasive force in the field of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies.

Author : Armin Geertz,Margit Warburg
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788779346819

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New Religions and Globalization by Armin Geertz,Margit Warburg Pdf

Globalization is a predominant theme in contemporary educational and political circles. Research on globalization has become a political priority because the world has become a 'single place', as Roland Robertson formulated it, where events in any particular part of the world can, and often do, have political, economical and military consequences for the rest of the world. Discourse on globalization, however, has generally ignored the cultural consequences. Recent waves of violence that seem to be religiously fueled, if not motivated, among immigrants and refugees in Europe and their home regions in the Middle East, have demonstrated that we can only ignore culture, values and religion at our own peril. Globalization and new religions is the theme of this book. It is argued here that studying new religions in a globalization perspective offers theoretical and methodological advantages both for the general study of religion and the general study of globalization. Religions are often cosmopolitan and universal in their overall message, yet they may at the same time be utterly immersed in local interactions. This is often clearly expressed among minority religions. The contrast of the local and the global is accentuated by globalization, and, in particular, many new religions have followed suit. This book draws together a selection of top quality papers given at a conference held in Aarhus in 2002 under the auspices of the Research Network on New Religions (RENNER). The papers, which have been edited and up-dated, represent the work of leading scholars in the history of religions, sociology of religion, psychology of religion and other disciplines. They address questions that are vital for everyone in the modern world: whether approached as a reflection of world economy and power dynamics, new possibilities of communication and cultural exchange in the light of mass media and technology, increased cultural plurality in the wake of migration or as a combination of any of these, globalization challenges the academic study of religion to renewed theoretical and methodological reflection.

Author : Peter Beyer
Publisher : Ergon Verlag
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X006134273

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Religion in the Process of Globalization by Peter Beyer Pdf

Author : Roland Benedikter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030808570

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Religion in the Age of Re-Globalization by Roland Benedikter Pdf

This book provides a concise introduction into twenty-one trends that are transforming the role of religion and spirituality in “re-globalizing” societies. In referring to processes of “re-globalization”, the book draws attention to profound ongoing changes in the patterns and mechanisms of contemporary globalization. Inter- and transdisciplinary in its approach, clearly structured, and easy to read, the book analyzes the impact of religious self-understanding, rhetoric, and practice on five core fields: economics, politics, culture, demography, and technology. In turn, it describes the effects of these five fields on religion and spirituality themselves. This book represents a broad, encompassing overview of the main transformations that religion is undergoing today. Roland Benedikter combines a “big picture” approach with a keen attention to the details of specific case studies. With its clear and accessible structure and timely examples, this book is ideally suited for students of international relations and religious studies, and will also appeal to researchers engaged in those fields and to interested general readers. The book is also apt to serve as an encompassing basis for contemporary debates in civil society, including both grassroots and expert discussions.

Author : A. Green,V. Viaene
Publisher : Springer
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137031716

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Religious Internationals in the Modern World by A. Green,V. Viaene Pdf

Tracing the emergence of 'Religious Internationals' as a distinctive new phenomenon in world history, this book transforms our understanding of the role of religion in our modern world. Through in-depth studies comparing the experiences of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews and Muslims, leading experts shed new light on 'global civil society'.

Author : Marian Burchardt,Monika Wohlrab-Sahr,Matthias Middell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781614519782

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Multiple Secularities Beyond the West by Marian Burchardt,Monika Wohlrab-Sahr,Matthias Middell Pdf

Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. In theoretical terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secularity: historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of secular formations. The contributions show how differences in these dimensions are linked to specific histories of religious and ethnic diversity, processes of state-formation and nation-building. They also reveal how secularities are critically shaped through civilizational encounters, processes of globalization, colonial conquest, and missionary movements, and how entanglements between different territorially grounded notions of secularity or between local cultures and transnational secular arenas unfold over time.

Author : Mike O’Donnell,Hoshang Noraiee,Dorrie Chetty,Elizabeth Waters,Samane Salimi-Tari,Şevket Alper Koç,Hakkı Cenk,Sermin Sarıca,Alexandra Kelbert,Horacio Gago Prialé,Arzu Culhaci,Sibel Fettahoğlu
Publisher : IJOPEC Publication
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 9780956825605

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Globalisation, Religion & Development by Mike O’Donnell,Hoshang Noraiee,Dorrie Chetty,Elizabeth Waters,Samane Salimi-Tari,Şevket Alper Koç,Hakkı Cenk,Sermin Sarıca,Alexandra Kelbert,Horacio Gago Prialé,Arzu Culhaci,Sibel Fettahoğlu Pdf

Globalisation, religion and development have sparked much interest and debates in the last two decades. The analysis of religion and especially Islam has been presented in a simplistic notion of linear development, and the supposed inability to adapt to modernity and capitalism. This journal will consider such views and assess their validity by focusing on: Part 1: introducing the theoretical issues and debates surrounding globalisation, religion and development, illustrating the often-contested nature of the concepts, and considering the implications for modernity and development. Part 2: continuing with the same theme but focusing on gender and development, representation of women, the effect of modernisation on the increasing consumption of alcohol in Kazakhstan, women's access to higher education in revolutionary Iran and finally women and domestic violence. Part 3: focusing on case studies to explore the implications of globalisation, regionalisation and development in Iran, Turkey, Sudan, Peru and Senegal.

Author : Richard King
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231518246

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Religion, Theory, Critique by Richard King Pdf

Religion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporary and classical theories as well as non-Western cultural contexts. Unlike other collections, this anthology emphasizes the dynamic relationship between "religion" as an object of study and different methodological approaches and openly addresses the question of the manifold ways in which "religion," "secular," and "culture" are imagined within different disciplinary horizons. This volume is the first textbook which seeks to engage discussion of classical approaches with contemporary cultural and critical theories. Contributors write on the influence of the natural sciences in the study of religion; the role of European Christianity in modeling theories of religion; religious experience and the interface with cognitive science; the structure and function of religious language; the social-scientific study of religion; ritual in religion; the phenomenology of religion; critical theory and religion; embodiment and religion; the impact of colonialism and modernity; theorizing religion in terms of race and ethnicity; links among religion, nationalism, and globalization; the interplay of gender, sex, and religion; and religion and the environment. Each chapter introduces the topic, identifies key theorists and issues, and respects the pluralistic nature of the scholarship in the field. Altogether, this collection scrutinizes the explicit and implicit assumptions theorists make about religion as an object of analysis.

Author : Annika Hvithamar,Margit Warburg,Brian Jacobsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047440635

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Holy Nations and Global Identities by Annika Hvithamar,Margit Warburg,Brian Jacobsen Pdf

Combining the insights of scholars from the fields of religion, history, sociology and political science this book brings together genuine theoretical explorations and original case studies on civil religion, nationalism and globalization.

Author : Dwight N. Hopkins,Lois Ann Lorentzen,Eduardo Mendieta,David Batstone
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780822380405

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Religions/Globalizations by Dwight N. Hopkins,Lois Ann Lorentzen,Eduardo Mendieta,David Batstone Pdf

For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion also has served as the foundation for national differences, racial conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed, religious spirituality, having been transformed by contemporary economic and political events, remains both empowering and controversial. Religions/Globalizations examines the extent to which globalization and religion are inseparable terms, bound up with each other in a number of critical and mutually revealing ways. As the contributors to this work suggest, a crucial component of globalization—the breakdown of familiar boundaries and power balances—may open a space in which religion can be deployed to help refabricate new communities. Examples of such deployments can be found in the workings of liberation theology in Latin America. In other cases, however, the operations of globalization have provided a space for strident religious nationalism and identity disputes to flourish. Is there in fact a dialectical tension between religion and globalization, a codependence and codeterminism? While religion can be seen as a globalizing force, it has also been transformed and even victimized by globalization. A provocative assessment of a contemporary phenomenon with both cultural and political dimensions, Religions/Globalizations will interest not only scholars in religious studies but also those studying Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Contributors. David Batstone, Berit Bretthauer, Enrique Dussel, Dwight N. Hopkins, Mark Juergensmeyer, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Eduardo Mendieta, Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan, Kathryn Poethig, Lamin Sanneh, Linda E. Thomas