Secular Devotion

Author : Timothy Brennan
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781789604214

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Secular Devotion by Timothy Brennan Pdf

Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview, these musical forms are completely modern in their sensibilities: they are in fact the very sound of modern life. But the African religious philosophy at their core involved a longing for earlier eras-ones that pre-dated the technological discipline of labor forced on captive populations by the European occupiers. In this groundbreaking new book, Timothy Brennan shows how the popular music of the Americas-the music of entertainment, nightlife, and leisure-is involved in a devotion to an African religious worldview that survived the ravages of slavery and found its way into the rituals of everyday listening. In doing so he explores the challenge posed by Afro-Latin music to a world music system dominated by a few wealthy countries and the processes by which Afro-Latin music has been absorbed into the imperial imagination.

Author : David J. Rothenberg
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195399714

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The Flower of Paradise by David J. Rothenberg Pdf

In spite of their widely disparate uses, Marian prayers and courtly love songs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance often show a stylistic similarity. This book examines the convergence of these two styles in polyphonic music and its broader poetic, artistic, and devotional context from c.1200-c.1500.

Author : Christopher Dole
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812206357

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Healing Secular Life by Christopher Dole Pdf

In contemporary Turkey—a democratic, secular, and predominantly Muslim nation—the religious healer is a controversial figure. Attracting widespread condemnation, religious healers are derided as exploiters of the sick and vulnerable, discredited forms of Islamic and medical authority, and superstitious relics of a pre-modern era. Yet all sorts of people, and not just the desperately ill, continue to seek them out. After years of research with healers and their patients in working-class neighborhoods of urban Turkey, anthropologist Christopher Dole concludes that the religious healer should be regarded not as an exception to Turkey's secular modern development but as one of its defining figures. Healing Secular Life demonstrates that religious healing and secularism in fact have a set of common stakes in the ordering of lives and the remaking of worlds. Linking the history of medical reforms and scientific literacy campaigns to contemporary efforts of Qur'anic healers to treat people afflicted by spirits and living saints through whom deceased political leaders speak, Healing Secular Life approaches stories of healing and being healed as settings for examining the everyday social intimacies of secular political rule. This ethnography of loss, care, and politics reveals not only that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within the history of secular modern reform in Turkey but also that personal narratives of suffering and affliction are inseparable from the story of a nation seeking to recover from the violence of its own secular past.

Author : Timothy Fitzgerald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317490999

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Religion and the Secular by Timothy Fitzgerald Pdf

Religion has dominated colonialism since the 16th century. 'Religion and the Secular' critically examines how religion has been used to subject indigenous concepts to the needs of colonial powers. Essays present the colonial relationship from the perspective of colonized cultures - including Mexico, Guatemala, Vietnam, India, Japan, South Africa and Canada - and colonizing powers, namely England, Germany and the United States. The volume offers a historical and ethnographical analysis of the relationship between the sacred and the secular, examining religion in relation to politics, economics and civil power.

Author : David K. Ngaruiya,Rodney L. Reed
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783685608

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Governance and Christian Higher Education in the African Context by David K. Ngaruiya,Rodney L. Reed Pdf

Integrity, pastoral care and authority lie at the heart of Christian leadership and indeed, following Jesus in any capacity, and they are also critical in state governance and Christian higher education. The articles in this book, the product of the 2017 conference of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, address these themes and other topics relating to the spheres of government and education in Africa to enhance our understanding of the challenges faced in African contexts. A wide range of Christian scholar-leaders provide a way forward for other church and institutional leaders who are seeking to faithfully fulfill their responsibilities of stewardship and instruction. Corruption, civil disobedience, good governance and formation of Christian leaders are matters that are becoming increasingly relevant not only in many African countries but across the world, and this book is a valuable resource for thoughtful reflection and guidance on these important subjects.

Author : Michael D. Waggoner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136846090

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Sacred and Secular Tensions in Higher Education by Michael D. Waggoner Pdf

Both sacred and secular worldviews have long held a place in U.S. higher education, although non-religious perspectives have been privileged in most institutions in the modern era. Sacred and Secular Tensions in Higher Education illustrates the importance of cultivating multiple worldviews at public, private, and faith-based colleges and universities in the interest of academic freedom, and intellectual and moral dialogue. Contributors to this edited collection argue that sacred perspectives are as integral to contemporary higher education in the United States as the more dominant secular perspectives. The debates and issues addressed in this book attempt to rebalance the dialogue and place an emphasis on pluralism, rather than declare victory of one paradigm over the other. Student affairs administrators, higher education and religious studies faculty, and campus ministers and chaplains will benefit from better understanding the interplay of these sometimes competing and sometimes complementary ideas on campus, and the impact of the debate on the lives of faculty, students, and staff.

Author : David S. Kidder,Noah D. Oppenheim
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781609616892

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The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder,Noah D. Oppenheim Pdf

This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the mind sharp Millions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection—collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular version of the same—a collection of 365 short lessons that will inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year. Each daily digest of wisdom is drawn from one of seven fields of knowledge: history, literature, philosophy, mathematics and science, religion, fine arts, and music. Impress your friends by explaining Plato's Cave Allegory, pepper your cocktail party conversation with opera terms, and unlock the mystery of how batteries work. Daily readings range from important passages in literature to basic principles of physics, from pivotal events in history to images of famous paintings with accompanying analysis. The book's goal is to refresh knowledge we've forgotten, make new discoveries, and exercise modes of thinking that are ordinarily neglected once our school days are behind us. Offering an escape from the daily grind to contemplate higher things, The Intellectual Devotional is a great way to awaken in the morning or to revitalize one's mind before retiring in the evening.

Author : David E. Campbell,Geoffrey C. Layman,John C. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108831130

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Secular Surge by David E. Campbell,Geoffrey C. Layman,John C. Green Pdf

Many Americans are turning away from religion. Will a Secular Left rise to counter the Religious Right?

Author : Charles TAYLOR
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674976221

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A Secular Age by Charles TAYLOR Pdf

The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Author : Andrew Fiala
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134849260

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Secular Cosmopolitanism, Hospitality, and Religious Pluralism by Andrew Fiala Pdf

This book explores the idea of religious pluralism while defending the norms of secular cosmopolitanism, which include liberty, tolerance, civility, and hospitality. The secular cosmopolitan ideal requires us to be more tolerant and more hospitable toward religious believers and non-believers from diverse traditions in our religiously pluralistic world. Some have argued that the world’s religions can be united around a common core. This book argues that it is both impossible and inadvisable either to reduce religion to one thing or to deny religion. Instead, the book affirms non reductive pluralism and seeks to understand how we should live in a pluralistic world. Building on work in the sociology of religion and philosophy of religion, the book examines the grown of religious diversity (and the spread of nonreligion) in the contemporary world. It argues that religious toleration, hospitality, and compassion must be extended in a global direction. Secular cosmopolitanism recognizes that each person has a right to his or her deepest beliefs and that the diversity of the world’s religious and non-religious traditions cannot be reduced or eliminated.

Author : David Zahl
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506449449

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Seculosity by David Zahl Pdf

At the heart of our current moment lies a universal yearning, writes David Zahl, not to be happy or respected so much as enough--what religions call "righteous." To fill the void left by religion, we look to all sorts of everyday activities--from eating and parenting to dating and voting--for the identity, purpose, and meaning once provided on Sunday morning. In our striving, we are chasing a sense of enoughness. But it remains ever out of reach, and the effort and anxiety are burning us out. Seculosity takes a thoughtful yet entertaining tour of American "performancism" and its cousins, highlighting both their ingenuity and mercilessness, all while challenging the conventional narrative of religious decline. Zahl unmasks the competing pieties around which so much of our lives revolve, and he does so in a way that's at points playful, personal, and incisive. Ultimately he brings us to a fresh appreciation for the grace of God in all its countercultural wonder.

Author : Tapati Guha-Thakurta,Vazira Zamindar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009276757

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How Secular Is Art? by Tapati Guha-Thakurta,Vazira Zamindar Pdf

As an invitation to interrogate the secular modality of art, the book unsettles both the categories of 'art' and 'secular' in their theoretical and historical implications. It questions the temporal, spatial and cultural binaries between the 'sacred' and the 'secular' that have shaped art historical scholarship as well as artistic practice. All the essays here are anchored in a conception of a region, whether we call it South Asia or the Indian subcontinent – one, fissured by histories of partition, state formations and religious nationalisms, but still offering a collective site from which to speak to the disciplines of art and the knowledge worlds in which they are embedded. The book asks: How do we complicate the religious designations of pre-modern art and architecture and the new forms of their resurgence in contemporary iconographies and monuments? How do we re-conceptualize the public and the political, as fiery contestations and new curatorial practices reconfigure the meaning of art in the proliferating spaces of museums, galleries, biennales and festivals? How do we understand South Asian art's deep entanglements with the politics of the present?

Author : Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421425931

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The Hymnal by Christopher N. Phillips Pdf

Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion. It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made? Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555006058

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The Franciscan annals and monthly bulletin of the third order of st. Francis [afterw.] and tertiary record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martin Thornton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725231085

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English Spirituality by Martin Thornton Pdf

"The republication of this definitive text is long overdue and a must for all those who are concerned for the maintenance of a sound, optimistic spirituality." Alan Jones "Skillfully uses Bible and history to good advantage in this long look at English Spirituality's roots." Christian Century "I know of no other book that rivals Thornton's work as a clear and well written compilation of so much valuable material." Review Of Books & Religion "Will provide both Protestant and Catholic readers with an exceptionally readable and thorough treatment of a shared tradition." Spiritual Live