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Secularisation, Pentecostalism and Violence

Author : David Martin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351846073

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Secularisation, Pentecostalism and Violence by David Martin Pdf

In this book David Martin brings together a coherent summary of his many years of ground-breaking academic work on the sociology of religion. Covering key and contentious areas from the last half-century such as secularisation, religion and violence, and the global rise of Pentecostalism, it presents a critical recuperation of these themes, some of them first initiated by the author, and a review of their reception history. It then reviews that reception history in a way that discusses not only the subjects themselves, but also the academic practices that have surrounded them. As such, this collection is vital reading for all academics with an interest in David Martin’s work, as well as those involved with the sociology of religion and the study of secularisation more generally.

Pentecostalism and Religious Conflict in Contemporary India

Author : Sarbeswar Sahoo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108416122

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Pentecostalism and Religious Conflict in Contemporary India by Sarbeswar Sahoo Pdf

Conversion and the shifting discourse of violence -- Spreading like fire: the growth of Pentecostalism among tribals -- Taking refuge in Christ: four narratives on religious conversion -- Becoming believers: Adivasi women and the Pentecostal church -- Encountering the alien: Hindutva politics and anti-Christian violence -- Beyond the competing projects of conversion

The Future of Christianity

Author : David Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317031147

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The Future of Christianity by David Martin Pdf

This book offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David Martin over some fifty years, complementing his book On Secularization. Deploying secularisation as an omnibus word bringing many dimensions into play, Martin argues that the boundaries of the concept of secularisation must not be redefined simply to cover aberrant cases, as when the focus was more on America as an exception rather than on Europe as an exception to the 'furiously religious' character of the rest of the world. Particular themes of focus include the dialectic of Christianity and secularization, the relation of Christianity to multiple enlightenments and modes of modernity, the enigmas of East Germany and Eastern Europe, and the rise of the transnational religious voluntary association, including Pentecostalism, as that feeds into vast religious changes in the developing world. Doubts are cast on the idea that religion has ever been privatised and has lately reentered the public realm. The rest of the book deals with the relation of the Christian repertoire to the nexus of religion and politics, including democracy and violence and sharply criticises polemical assertions of a special relation of religion to violence, and explores the contributions of 'cognitive science' to the debate

The Myth of Religious Violence

Author : William T Cavanaugh
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195385045

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The Myth of Religious Violence by William T Cavanaugh Pdf

Cavanaugh challenges conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. He examines how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence.

Pacifism and Pentecostals in South Africa

Author : Marius Nel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429995934

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Pacifism and Pentecostals in South Africa by Marius Nel Pdf

Most of the early twentieth-century Pentecostal denominations were peace churches that encouraged a stance of conscientious objection. However, since the Second World War Pentecostals have largely abandoned their pacifist viewpoint as they have taken on a more literal Biblical hermeneutic from their interaction with Evangelical denominations. This book traces the history of nonviolence in Pentecostalism and suggests that a new hermeneutic of the Bible is needed by today’s Pentecostals in order for them to rediscover their pacifist roots and effect positive social change. The book focuses on how Pentecostalism has manifested in South Africa during the twentieth century. Much of the available academic literature on hermeneutics and exegesis in the field of Pentecostal Studies is of an American or British-European origin. This book redresses this imbalance by exploring how the Bible has been used amongst African Pentecostals to teach on the apparent paradox of a simultaneously wrathful and loving God. It then goes onto suggest that how the Bible is read directly affects how Pentecostals view their role as potential reformers of society. So, it must be engaged seriously and thoughtfully. By bringing Pentecostalism’s function in South African society to the fore, this book adds a fresh perspective on the issue of pacifism in world Christianity. As such it will be of great use to scholars of Pentecostal Studies, Theology, and Religion and Violence as well as those working in African Studies.

Under the Spell of Freedom

Author : Hans Joas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780197642153

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In Under the Spell of Freedom, Hans Joas deconstructs the grand Hegelian narrative of human history as the self-realization of the idea of freedom, setting as a counterpart the sketches of a theory of the emergence of moral universalism. He takes the classical views of Hegel and his emphasis on the role of Protestant Christianity and the extremely negative views about Christianity in the work of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to elaborate on this new understanding of religion and freedom, which encompasses a range of intellectual traditions and avoids Eurocentrism. Joas answers the empirical question of when, where, why, and how such a moral universalism emerged and developed.

Forbidden Revolutions

Author : David Martin
Publisher : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173005189598

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Forbidden Revolutions by David Martin Pdf

Demonstrates the profound impact which the Christian faith can have in changing even the most difficult of social situations.

David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

Author : Hans Joas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351188937

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David Martin and the Sociology of Religion by Hans Joas Pdf

David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion. He was one of the first critics of the so-called secularization thesis, and his historical orientation makes him one of the few outstanding scholars who have continued the work begun by Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. This collection provides the first scholarly overview of his hugely influential work and includes a chapter written by David Martin himself. Starting with an introduction that contextualises David Martin’s theories on the sociology of religion, both currently and historically, this volume aims to cover David Martin’s lifework in its entirety. An international panel of contributors sheds new light on his studies of particular geographical areas (Britain, Latin America, Scandinavia) and on certain systematic fields (secularization, violence, music, Pentecostalism, the relation between sociology and theology). David Martin’s concluding chapter addresses the critical points raised in response to his theories. This book addresses one of the key figures in the development of the sociology of religion, and as such it will be of great interest to all scholars of the sociology of religion.

Violent Conversion

Author : Linda van de Kamp
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781847011527

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Violent Conversion by Linda van de Kamp Pdf

Examines Pentecostal conversion as a force of change, revealing new insights into its dominant role in global Christianity today.

But What Is the Church For?

Author : Neil Darragh
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666727111

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But What Is the Church For? by Neil Darragh Pdf

What is the church really for? Some people are members of the church because it’s part of their family tradition or their culture or their identity. Others have left the church because that’s all it is in fact. Is it the best way to salvation or a way of coming closer to God? In any case, the church is not just for us or the benefits we get out of it. Very few of us would say that this is what the church is really for. There is surely something more here, something more generous, life-giving, outgoing, and gracious than what we personally get out of it. This book is about the church’s outreach beyond itself—its purpose beyond any benefits for those already its members. This book is not about a church looking inwards and worrying about itself, but about a church looking outwards. The local Christian community that we belong to is part of that much bigger, much more exhilarating project of the evolving realm of God.

Modernity and the Ideals of Arab-Islamic and Western-Scientific Philosophy

Author : A. Z. Obiedat
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030942656

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Modernity and the Ideals of Arab-Islamic and Western-Scientific Philosophy by A. Z. Obiedat Pdf

This is the first study to compare the philosophical systems of secular scientific philosopher Mario Bunge (1919-2020), and Moroccan Islamic philosopher Taha Abd al-Rahman (b.1945). In their efforts to establish the philosophical underpinnings of an ideal modernity these two great thinkers speak to the same elements of the human condition, despite their opposing secular and religious worldviews. While the differences between Bunge’s critical-realist epistemology and materialist ontology on the one hand, and Taha’s spiritualist ontology and revelational-mystical epistemology on the other, are fundamental, there is remarkable common ground between their scientific and Islamic versions of humanism. Both call for an ethics of prosperity combined with social justice, and both criticize postmodernism and religious conservatism. The aspiration of this book is to serve as a model for future dialogue between holders of Western and Islamic worldviews, in mutual pursuit of modernity’s best-case scenario.

Foundations and Futures in the Sociology of Religion

Author : Luke Doggett,Alp Arat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351607384

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Foundations and Futures in the Sociology of Religion by Luke Doggett,Alp Arat Pdf

Since the sociology of religion became recognised as a distinct sub-discipline over the last century, the dominance of approaches taking their inspiration from the sociological classics has increasingly been challenged. Empirical findings have brought the notion of secularisation into question; and theorists have sought to deconstruct how we think of ‘religion.’ This collection appraises the continuing influence of the foundational approaches and places these in relation to newly emerging directions in the field. The book is divided into four sections, each section containing one ‘foundational’ chapter written by an established academic followed by two ‘futures’ chapters contributed by emerging scholars in the sub-discipline. These chapters complement one another by placing the overview of future directions in the context of a survey of the development of the sociology of religion over the last century. Topics discussed in these chapters include lived religion, sexuality, ritual, religion and the media. Combining erudite examinations of the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group’s work so far with explorations of the future directions its research might take, this book is vital reading for any scholar whose work combines religious studies and sociology.

Secularization

Author : Charles Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317625384

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‘Secularization’ sounds simple, a decline in the power of religion. Yet, the history of the term is controversial and multi-faceted; it has been useful to both religious believers and non-believers and has been deployed by scholars to make sense of a variety of aspects of cultural and social change. This book will introduce the reader to this variety and show how secularization bears on the contemporary politics of religion. Secularization addresses the sociological classics’ ambivalent accounts of the future of religion, later and more robust sociological claims about religious decline, and the most influential philosophical secularization thesis, which says that the dominant ideas of modern thought are in fact religious ones in a secularized form. The book outlines some shortcomings of these accounts in the light of historical inquiry and comparative sociology; examines claims that some religions are ‘resistant to secularization’; and analyzes controversies in the politics of religion, in particular over the relationship between Christianity and Islam and over the implicitly religious character of some modern political movements. By giving equal attention to both sociological and philosophical accounts of secularization, and equal weight to ideas, institutions, and practices, this book introduces complicated ideas in a digestible format. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in making unusual connections within sociology, anthropology, philosophy, theology, and political theory.

Unorganized Religion: Pentecostalism and Secularization in Denmark, 1907-1924

Author : Nikolaj Christensen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004509900

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Unorganized Religion: Pentecostalism and Secularization in Denmark, 1907-1924 by Nikolaj Christensen Pdf

The Pentecostal movement has turned the world of religion upside down in the last century but had only sporadic impact on Europe, the traditional centre of Christendom. This book uses Denmark as its case study to work out why.

Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India

Author : Chad M. Bauman
Publisher : Global Pentecostalism and Char
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190202101

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Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India by Chad M. Bauman Pdf

In contemporary violence against India's Christians, Pentecostals are disproportionately targeted. Based on extensive interviews and ethnographic work, this volume accounts for this disproportionate targeting through a detailed analysis of Indian Christian history, contemporary Indian politics, and Indian social and cultural characteristics.