Religious Entanglements

Author : David Maxwell
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299337506

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Religious Entanglements by David Maxwell Pdf

Under the leadership of William F. P. Burton and James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) grew from a simple faith movement founded in 1915 into one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa, today boasting more than one million members in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Drawing on artifacts, images, documents, and interviews, David Maxwell examines the roles of missionaries and their African collaborators—the Luba-speaking peoples of southeast Katanga—in producing knowledge about Africa. Through the careful reconstruction of knowledge pathways, Maxwell brings into focus the role of Africans in shaping texts, collections, and images as well as in challenging and adapting Western-imported presuppositions and prejudices. Ultimately, Maxwell illustrates the mutually constitutive nature of discourses of identity in colonial Africa and reveals not only how the Luba shaped missionary research but also how these coproducers of knowledge constructed and critiqued custom and convened new ethnic communities. Making a significant intervention in the study of both the history of African Christianity and the cultural transformations effected by missionary encounters across the globe, Religious Entanglements excavates the subculture of African Pentecostalism, revealing its potentiality for radical sociocultural change.

Author : Isabella Schwaderer,Gerdien Jonker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031403750

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Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800–1945 by Isabella Schwaderer,Gerdien Jonker Pdf

Religion as a form of cultural expression constitutes a critical element in the relationship between Germany and India. The discovery of Indian traditions in Germany and re-interpretations of those traditions in India fueled not only new theological and philosophical explorations, but also extensive innovations in the fields of music, dance, bodily experience, and political intervention. Seeking to uncover the enfolding of colonial thought structures through presentations of the Self, while placing them in the context of global colonial value chains that connected the peripheries with the centre, this interdisciplinary volume addresses India through the lens of an entangled relationship. Adopting the position that the acceleration of communication, technical development, and colonisation locally triggered re-interpretations of the religious sphere, This volume takes a look at the period from 1800 to the end of National Socialism, tracing the strands of an Indo-Germanic religion in the making as it goes along. A special emphasis is placed on the artistic expressions of religious experience including re-enactments of musical compositions and dance configurations, which were created to embody India in Germany. This is an open access book.

Author : Elżbieta M. Goździak,Izabella Main
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031233791

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Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements by Elżbieta M. Goździak,Izabella Main Pdf

This open access book brings into dialogue emerging and seasoned migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Violent conflicts, social unrest, and other humanitarian crises around the world have led to growing numbers of people seeking refuge both in the North and in the South. Migrating and seeking refuge have always been part and parcel of spiritual development. However, the current 'refugee crisis' in Europe and elsewhere in the world has brought to the fore fervent discussions regarding the role of religion in defining difference, linking the ‘refugee crisis’ with Islam, and fear of the ‘Other.’ Many religious institutions, spiritual leaders, and politicians invoke religious values and call for strict border controls to resolve the ‘refugee crisis.’ However, equally many humanitarian organizations and refugee advocates use religious values to inform their call to action to welcome refugees and migrants, provide them with assistance, and facilitate integration processes. This book includes three distinct but inter-related parts focusing, respectively, on politics, values, and discourses mobilized by religious beliefs; lived experiences of religion, with a particular emphasis on identity and belonging among various refugee groups; and faith and faith actors and their responses to forced migration.

Author : Dominic Sachsenmaier
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231547314

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Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled by Dominic Sachsenmaier Pdf

Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities to involvement with globalizing Catholicism, put him in contact with a complex and contradictory set of foreign and domestic forces. In Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled, Dominic Sachsenmaier explores the mid-seventeenth-century world and the worldwide flows of ideas through the lens of Zhu‘s life, combining the local, regional, and global. Taking particular aspects of Zhu‘s multiple belongings as a starting point, Sachsenmaier analyzes the contexts that framed his worlds as he balanced a local life and his border-crossing faith. At the local level, the book pays attention to the intellectual, political, and social environments of late Ming and early Qing society, including Confucian learning and the Manchu conquest, questioning the role of ethnic and religious identities. At the global level, it considers how individuals like Zhu were situated within the history of organizations and power structures such as the Catholic Church and early modern empires amid larger transformations and encounters. A strikingly original work, this book is a major contribution to East Asian, transnational, and global history, with important implications for historical approaches and methodologies.

Author : Soumen Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031496370

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Religion, Mysticism, and Transcultural Entanglements in Modern South Asia by Soumen Mukherjee Pdf

Author : Alexis Anja Kallio,Philip Alperson,Heidi Westerlund
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253043740

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Music, Education, and Religion by Alexis Anja Kallio,Philip Alperson,Heidi Westerlund Pdf

Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education. As in broader educational studies, research in music education has tended to sidestep the religious dimensions of teaching and learning, often reflecting common assumptions of secularity in contemporary schooling in many parts of the world. This book considers the ways in which the forces of religion and belief construct and complicate the values and practices of music education—including teacher education, curriculum texts, and teaching repertoires. The contributors to this volume embrace a range of perspectives from a variety of disciplines, examining religious, agnostic, skeptical, and atheistic points of view. Music, Education, and Religion is a valuable resource for all music teachers and scholars in related fields, interrogating the sociocultural and epistemological underpinnings of music repertoires and global educational practices.

Author : Barbara Heer
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839447970

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Cities of Entanglements by Barbara Heer Pdf

How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided. Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers and their employers, failed attempts by urban elites to close off their neighborhoods, and entanglements emerging in religious spaces and in shopping malls. Systematizing comparison as an experience-based method, the book makes an important contribution to urban anthropology, comparative urbanism and urban studies.

Author : Willis J. Jenkins,Mary Evelyn Tucker,John Grim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317655336

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Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology by Willis J. Jenkins,Mary Evelyn Tucker,John Grim Pdf

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field. It encourages both appreciative and critical angles regarding religious traditions, communities, attitude, and practices. It presents contrasting ways of thinking about "religion" and about "ecology" and about ways of connecting the two terms. Written by a team of leading international experts, the Handbook discusses dynamics of change within religious traditions as well as their roles in responding to global challenges such as climate change, water, conservation, food and population. It explores the interpretations of indigenous traditions regarding modern environmental problems drawing on such concepts as lifeway and indigenous knowledge. This volume uniquely intersects the field of religion and ecology with new directions within the humanities and the sciences. This interdisciplinary volume is an essential reference for scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities and for all those looking to understand the significance of religion in environmental studies and policy.

Author : Tobias Koellner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351018920

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Orthodox Religion and Politics in Contemporary Eastern Europe by Tobias Koellner Pdf

This book explores the relationship between Orthodox religion and politics in Eastern Europe, Russia and Georgia. It demonstrates how as these societies undergo substantial transformation Orthodox religion can be both a limiting and an enabling factor, how the relationship between religion and politics is complex, and how the spheres of religion and politics complement, reinforce, influence, and sometimes contradict each other. Considering a range of thematic issues, with examples from a wide range of countries with significant Orthodox religious groups, and setting the present situation in its full historical context the book provides a rich picture of a subject which has been too often oversimplified.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004444867

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World Christianity by Anonim Pdf

World Christianity publications proliferate but the issue of methodology has received little attention. World Christianity: Methodological Considerations addresses this lacuna and explores the methodological ramifications of the World Christianity turn. In twelve chapters scholars from various academic backgrounds (anthropology, religious studies, history, missiology, intercultural studies, theology, and patristics) as well as of multiple cultural and national belongings investigate methodological issues (e.g. methods, use of sources, choosing a unit of analysis, terminology, conceptual categories,) relevant to World Christianity debates. In a closing chapter the editors Frederiks and Nagy converge the findings and sketch the outlines of what they coin as a ‘World Christianity approach’, a multidisciplinary and multiple perspective approach to study Christianity/ies’ plurality and diversity in past and present.

Author : Wayne Glausser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190864170

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Something Old, Something New by Wayne Glausser Pdf

Entanglement : an introduction (with Starbucks cups and stem cells) -- The rhetoric of new atheism -- The rhetoric of faithful science -- Christians and adversaries in the evolving Norton anthology of English literature : old-time religion and the new academic market -- The curious case of Pope Francis -- The seven deadly sins : summa theologica meets scientific American -- Psychedelic last rites

Author : Friedrich Schweitzer,Reinhold Boschki
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783830987192

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Researching Religious Education: Classroom Processes and Outcomes by Friedrich Schweitzer,Reinhold Boschki Pdf

The question of how research on structures and outcomes in Religious Education can be carried out successfully is of current interest in many countries. Next to the more traditional historical, analytical and, more recently, international comparative approaches, empirical research in religious education has been able to establish itself as a major approach to this field. Moreover, the contemporary discussion about comparative evaluation in schools has raised a number of questions which also refer to Religious Education. What competences can pupils acquire in this subject? Does Religious Education really support the acquisition and development of the competences aspired? Are there differences in this respect between different forms of Religious Education or between different approaches to teaching? With contributions from eight European countries, the volume brings together approaches and research experiences that try to follow this lead by offering new and empirically based perspectives for the future improvement of teaching and learning in this school subject. Whoever is interested in improving the practice of Religious Education then, will not be able to bypass the question of researching processes and outcomes - an insight which also refers to a small but growing number of studies in this field which can be identified in several countries.

Author : Michael Pasquier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317617747

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Religion in America: The Basics by Michael Pasquier Pdf

Religion in America: The Basics is a concise introduction to the historical development of religions in the United States. It is an invitation to explore the complex tapestry of religious beliefs and practices that shaped life in North America from the colonial encounters of the fifteenth century to the culture wars of the twenty-first century. Far from a people unified around a common understanding of Christianity, Religion in America: The Basics tracks the steady diversification of the American religious landscape and the many religious conflicts that changed American society. At the same time, it explores how Americans from a variety of religious backgrounds worked together to face the challenges of racism, poverty, war, and other social concerns. Because no single survey can ever satisfy the need to know more and think differently, Religion in America prepares readers to continue studying American religions with their own questions and perspectives in mind.

Author : Rabiat Akande
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009062015

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Entangled Domains by Rabiat Akande Pdf

Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multireligious population through what remained of the precolonial caliphate. Entangled Domains grapple with this history to offer a provocative account of secularism as a contested yet contingent mode of governing religion and religious difference. Drawing on detailed archival research, Rabiat Akande vividly illustrates constitutional struggles triggered by the colonial state's governance of religion and interrogates the legacy of that governance agenda in the postcolonial state. This book is a novel commentary on the dynamic interplay between law, faith, identity, and power in the context of the modern state's emergence from colonial processes.

Author : M. Christian Green
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781928314592

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Law, Religion and Human Flourishing in Africa by M. Christian Green Pdf

A shared interest of law and religion is the advancement of human flourishing, yet there is no common understanding of what it means for humans to flourish and the means by which to attain a flourishing life. The concept of human flourishing is especially important for Africa, where community and national development compete with forces of conflict and scarce resources. In the broadest sense, the concept of human flourishing focuses our attention on having a comprehensively good or worthwhile life, but various religious and legal traditions suggest different norms for measuring the quality of life and designing the institutional structures that could best facilitate and preserve it.