Religions In Play

Author : Philippe Bornet,Maya Burger
Publisher : Theologischer Verlag Zürich
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783290220105

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Religions in Play by Philippe Bornet,Maya Burger Pdf

Often dismissed as "not serious", the notion of play has nevertheless been at the centre of classical theories of religion and ritual (Huizinga, Caillois, Turner, Staal, etc.). What can be retained of those theories for the contemporary study of religions? Can a study of "play" or "game" bring new perspectives for the study of religions? The book deals with the history of games and their relation to religions, the links between divination and games, the relations between sport and ritual, the pedagogical functions of games in religious education, and the interaction between games, media and religions. Richly illustrated, the book contributes to the study of religions, to ritual, game and media studies, and addresses an academic as well as a general public. Philippe Bornet, Dr. Phil., born in 1977, is Lecturer in the Study of Religion at the Faculty of Lettres of the University of Lausanne, with focus on the history of interrelations between India and Europe. Maya Burger is Professor of Indian Studies and History of Religions at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lausanne, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Author : Heidi A. Campbell,Gregory P. Grieve
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780253012630

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Playing with Religion in Digital Games by Heidi A. Campbell,Gregory P. Grieve Pdf

Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game Okami to the internationally popular The Legend of Zelda and Halo, many video games rely on religious themes and symbols to drive the narrative and frame the storyline. Playing with Religion in Digital Games explores the increasingly complex relationship between gaming and global religious practices. For example, how does religion help organize the communities in MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft? What role has censorship played in localizing games like Actraiser in the western world? How do evangelical Christians react to violence, gore, and sexuality in some of the most popular games such as Mass Effect or Grand Theft Auto? With contributions by scholars and gamers from all over the world, this collection offers a unique perspective to the intersections of religion and the virtual world.

Author : Andre Droogers
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718843861

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Religion at Play by Andre Droogers Pdf

Is a powerful position a guarantee that a religion will continue? Does God take sides in religious power struggles? Can God survive religious exclusivity and diversity? Is God migrating from out there to in here? Is religion sustainable in the long run? In seeking answers to these questions, this book explores the possibilities afforded by playful religion. Religion has playful origins, but this aspect is forgotten as soon as institutional power becomes self-serving insteadof subservient. Power changes the very essence of religion. Virtually all religions are distorted versions of a playful original. Institutionalization is religion's curse, not its blessing. Apparent success hides the failure of religion to be faithful to its original intent. This book helps find the way back from bordering to inclusivity and openness.

Author : Alison Robertson
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Bondage (Sexual behavior)
ISBN : 1800500297

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Play, Pain and Religion by Alison Robertson Pdf

Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism and masochism) in the context of religious studies scholarship. The focus is an exploration of BDSM experience as it emerges from the complex interactions of kink activities and relationship. Experiences categorised by BDSM practitioners as 'religious' and 'spiritual' are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as descriptions of experiences which are not so categorised. Play, Pain and Religion examines practitioner accounts of BDSM experience alongside those practitioners' personal identification with these terms. This book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but in subsequent constructions around the nature and meaning of the event. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process of meaning-, world- and story-making. By using this 'religioning' framework, this book examines ways in which BDSM can potentially be used in such processes. Play, Pain and Religion is a valuable resource for scholars of religion and of kink, for people interested in the complexities of ascribing meaning and value to human behaviour, and for kinksters interested in their own kink and why it is they do what they do.

Author : Selva J. Raj,Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438429816

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Sacred Play by Selva J. Raj,Corinne G. Dempsey Pdf

Explores the significance of levity and humor in South Asian religious traditions.

Author : Judi Culbertson,Patti Bard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Humor
ISBN : IND:30000104181064

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Games Christians Play by Judi Culbertson,Patti Bard Pdf

Author : Virgil Nemoianu,Robert Royal
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791409368

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Play, Literature, Religion by Virgil Nemoianu,Robert Royal Pdf

Using the concept of play as a common denominator, 11 essays outline the various ways literary creativity can act as a free, open, and speculatively unburdened expression of religious concerns. The examples range from the midrashic implications of early Biblical texts, to 20th-century exegeses. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jerome Berryman
Publisher : Augsburg Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0806627859

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Godly Play by Jerome Berryman Pdf

Meaningful, lasting learning comes from childlike curiosity and play. The approach of this book is to make relgious instruction fun, spontaneous and deeply spiritual. Godly Play is a practical yet innovative approach to religious education--becoming childlike in order to teach children.

Author : Joseph Laycock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520284913

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Dangerous Games by Joseph Laycock Pdf

The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religionÑas a socially constructed world of shared meaningÑcan also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil. By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds. LaycockÕs clear and accessible writing ensures that Dangerous Games will be required reading for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.

Author : André Droogers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110259513

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Play and Power in Religion by André Droogers Pdf

At a religion’s margins a counterpoint can be found for its power center. In a creative manner, relatively free from clerical control, religious virtuosos take new initiatives there. Inspired by their experience with the sacred, they explore their liberty to play with meanings, images and practices. Yet, the eventual success of such an innovation calls for organization and thus for the exercise of power. Accordingly new movements slow down into institutions – till a new virtuoso brings the cycle to a fresh start. Over the last thirty years André Droogers has extensively published on the relation between religion, power and play. In this collection of essays the most relevant articles are reprinted. For this volume Droogers wrote an autobiographical introduction, showing how the contingencies of a career may nevertheless lead to a more or less consistent approach. In Part I of the book articles are included that represent the basic ideas of Droogers’ approach, with an emphasis on margin, inversion, ritual and meaning-making. In part II some of his articles on syncretism and Pentecostalism illustrate his views. Part III contains articles that apply the play-and-power perspective to methodological issues in the study of religion.

Author : Carole M. Cusack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317113256

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Invented Religions by Carole M. Cusack Pdf

Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the SubGenius, and Jediism. Their continued appeal and success, principally in America but gaining wider audience through the 1980s and 1990s, is chiefly as a result of underground publishing and the internet. This book deals with immensely popular subject matter: Jediism developed from George Lucas' Star Wars films; the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, founded by 26-year-old student Bobby Henderson in 2005 as a protest against the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools; Discordianism and the Church of the SubGenius which retain strong followings and participation rates among college students. The Church of All Worlds' focus on Gaia theology and environmental issues makes it a popular focus of attention. The continued success of these groups of Invented Religions provide a unique opportunity to explore the nature of late/post-modern religious forms, including the use of fiction as part of a bricolage for spirituality, identity-formation, and personal orientation.

Author : Robert E. Neale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Play
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005292151

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In Praise of Play by Robert E. Neale Pdf

Author : William J Baker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780674020443

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Playing with God by William J Baker Pdf

Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.

Author : José Casanova
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226190204

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Public Religions in the Modern World by José Casanova Pdf

In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies. During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology, began making their way, often forcefully, out of the private sphere and into public life, causing the "deprivatization" of religion in contemporary life. No longer content merely to administer pastoral care to individual souls, religious institutions are challenging dominant political and social forces, raising questions about the claims of entities such as nations and markets to be "value neutral", and straining the traditional connections of private and public morality. Casanova looks at five cases from two religious traditions (Catholicism and Protestantism) in four countries (Spain, Poland, Brazil, and the United States). These cases challenge postwar—and indeed post-Enlightenment—assumptions about the role of modernity and secularization in religious movements throughout the world. This book expands our understanding of the increasingly significant role religion plays in the ongoing construction of the modern world.

Author : Steven H. Lonsdale
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0801867592

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Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion by Steven H. Lonsdale Pdf

In private and in public life, the ancient Greeks danced to express divine adoration and human festivity. They danced at feasts and choral competitions, at weddings and funerals, in observance of the cycles of both nature and human existence. Formal and informal dances marked the rhythms of life and death. In Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion, Steven Lonsdale looks at how the Greeks themselves regarded the act of dance, and how dance and related forms of ritual play in Greek religious festivals served a wide variety of functions in Greek society. The act of worship, he explains, often implied engaging in collective rites regulated by playful behavior, the most common forms of which were group hymns and choral dances.