Socio Anthropological Approaches To Religion

Author : David W. Kim,Duncan Wright
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666956061

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Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion by David W. Kim,Duncan Wright Pdf

Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion: Environmental Hope interprets the fundamental functions of spirituality through the theories and practices of hope and understanding the futuristic aspiration of new religious movements. The book portrays a neutral notion of hope that can be either religious or humanistic in the face of the suffering or despair of present reality. The concept of hope (or hopelessness) is demonstrated in each chapter under the global circumstance of health risk. Part One represents the various theories of hope in Christian history, ecology and climate, the Sabbath and surveillance, and the triune God. The insecure situation that creates the expectation of hope is demonstrated in Part Two, where the case studies of terrorist attacks, immigration, volunteering behavior, religious education, and medieval Islamic tradition indicate social unbalance. The last section illustrates the cultural anthropology of hope through the activities of different native new religious movements including the Moonies’ Unification movement, Yoruba Nigerian indigenous spirituality, and Cosmovisions of Sepik New Guinea. This book examines hope as a crucial element of human’s internal healing beyond medical technology.

Author : Michael Banton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136538360

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Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion by Michael Banton Pdf

As the basic questions of social structure were elucidated there came a quickening of interest among social anthropologists in the study of religion. Chapters in this book include: · Religion as a Cultural System (Clifford Geertz) · Colour Classification in Ndembu Religion (Victor W. Turner) · Religion: Problems of Definition and Explanation (Melford E. Spiro) · Fathers, Elders and Ghosts in Edo Religion (R.E. Bradbury) · Territorial Groupings and Relgion among the Iraqw (Edward H. Winter). First published in 1966.

Author : Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth,Jesus College (University of Cambridge)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0422725102

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Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion by Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth,Jesus College (University of Cambridge) Pdf

Conference on "New Approaches in Social anthopology."

Author : Lionel Obadia,Donald C. Wood
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780522289

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Economics of Religion by Lionel Obadia,Donald C. Wood Pdf

Explores the fresh paradigms of 'religious economics' and 'economies of religion' under the scope of transdisciplinary and international perspectives. This title examines and appraises some of the theoretical developments and methodological innovations in religious and social sciences.

Author : Magnus Marsden,Konstantinos Retsikas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789400742673

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Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds by Magnus Marsden,Konstantinos Retsikas Pdf

This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in the social lives of the world’s Muslims. The volume begins with an introduction that sets out a powerful case for a fresh approach to this kind of research, exhorting anthropologists to pause and reflect on when Islam is, and is not, a central feature of their informants’ life-worlds and identities. The chapters that follow are written by scholars with long-term, specialist research experience in Muslim societies ranging from Kenya to Pakistan and from Yemen to China: thus they explore and compare Islam’s social significance in a variety of settings that are not confined to the Middle East or South Asia alone. The authors assess how helpful current anthropological research is in shedding light on Islam’s relationship to contemporary societies. Collectively, the contributors deploy both theoretical and ethnographic analysis of key developments in the anthropology of Islam over the last 30 years, even as they extrapolate their findings to address wider debates over the anthropology of world religions more generally. Crucially, they also tackle the thorny question of how, in the current political context, anthropologists might continue conducting sensitive and nuanced work with Muslim communities. Finally, an afterword by a scholar of Christianity explores the conceptual parallels between the book’s key themes and the anthropology of world religions in a broader context. This volume has key contemporary relevance: for example, its conclusions on the fluidity of people’s relations with Islam will provide an important counterpoint to many commonly held assumptions about the incontestability of Islam in the public sphere.

Author : Michael Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139827393

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The Cambridge Companion to Atheism by Michael Martin Pdf

In this 2007 volume, eighteen of the world's leading scholars present original essays on various aspects of atheism: its history, both ancient and modern, defense and implications. The topic is examined in terms of its implications for a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, religion, feminism, postmodernism, sociology and psychology. In its defense, both classical and contemporary theistic arguments are criticized, and, the argument from evil, and impossibility arguments, along with a non religious basis for morality are defended. These essays give a broad understanding of atheism and a lucid introduction to this controversial topic.

Author : David Berliner,Ramon Sarró
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781845455941

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Learning Religion by David Berliner,Ramon Sarró Pdf

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of “downloading” but also as a social process with its relational dimension.

Author : Galina Lindquist,Don Handelman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857459046

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Religion, Politics, and Globalization by Galina Lindquist,Don Handelman Pdf

While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe. The complex connections between religion and politics, and the ways in which globalization shapes these processes, are central themes explored in this volume by leading scholars in the field of religion. Does the holism of numerous past and present day cosmologies mean that religions with their holistic orientations are integral to human existence? What happens when political ideologies and projects are framed as transcendental truths and justified by Divine authority? How are individual and collective identities shaped by religious rhetoric, and what are the consequences? Can mass murder, deemed terrorism, be understood as a form of ritual sacrifice, and if so, what are the implications for our sensibilities and practices as scholars and citizens? Using empirical material, from historical analyses of established religions to the everyday strife of marginalized groups such as migrants and dissident movements, this volume deepens the understanding of processes that shape the contemporary world.

Author : Phillips Stevens,Denice J. Szafran
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Anthropology of religion
ISBN : 0415498732

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Anthropology of Religion by Phillips Stevens,Denice J. Szafran Pdf

Religious belief is an extremely powerful motivator of human behaviour. Religious considerations permeate and influence all parts of a culture. Religious systems are universal in human cultures, around the world and through all stages of human history and prehistory. Of all academic approaches to religion, the anthropological approach is the most comprehensive and the most useful to students of human belief and behaviour, because it examines religion as a cultural system that cannot fully be understood separated from the other systems with which it interacts. This new four-volume collection from Routledge assembles exemplary scholarship in the field from its Victorian beginnings to the present, and represents all generally accepted categories of religious belief and ritual, plus some new ones. Topics covered in this title include: 'Early Explorations'; 'Symbols'; 'Supernatural Beings'; 'Magical Power and Forces'; 'Human Agents of Supernatural Danger'; 'Myth'; 'Ritual'; 'Religious Practitioners'; 'Women and Gender'; 'Belief'; 'Ecology'; 'Mind and Body - Neurobiological Bases'; and, 'Religion in Socio-Cultural Change'. The first volume is prefaced with a general introduction newly written by the editor which outlines the history and salient aspects of the anthropological concern for religion, and introduces the specific sections of the work. Each thematic part also includes a short introduction to set the gathered materials in context. Anthropology of Religion is destined to be valued by scholars, students, researchers, and practitioners as an essential one-stop reference

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Religion
ISBN : OCLC:930731611

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Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Evon Zartman Vogt
Publisher : Harper & Row Barnes & Noble Import Division
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X000210878

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Reader in Comparative Religion by Evon Zartman Vogt Pdf

Cultural comparative material; Subjects covered; 1) origin and development of religions; 2) function of religions; 3) symbolism; 4) symbolic classification; 5) myth; 6) ritual; 7) shamanism; 8) magic, withcraft and divination; 9) death, ghosts and ancestor workship; 10) dynamics in religion; Includes W.E.H. Stanners The dreaming and A.L. Kroebers Totem and taboo; an ethnological psychoanalysis and Totem and taboo in retropect which are seperately listed in bibliography.

Author : John Richard Bowen
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0205418147

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Religions in Practice by John Richard Bowen Pdf

The third edition of this widely popular book offers a unique perspective on how people engage in everyday religious practices, such as prayer, sacrifice, pilgrimage, and dress, as well as investigates major issues of gender, nation-states, and laws with respect to religion. No other book examines the full spectrum of religions from small-scale societies to full-blown "world religious movements." The in-depth treatment of Islam and Christianity is of particular interest to students, and is easily expanded to include field projects directly related to material covered in the text. As one reviewer writes, "In our post 9/11 era, it is great to have a book whose author has done fieldwork in Indonesia and is so knowledgeable about Islam. " The third edition includes new material on the anthropology of war, expanded coverage of American religions and an exploration of how non-practitioners of organized religion turn to alternative beliefs, such as health food, tarot cards and psychics.

Author : Jérôme Ferret,Farhad Khosrokhavar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000516685

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Family and Jihadism by Jérôme Ferret,Farhad Khosrokhavar Pdf

This volume explores the paramount importance of family to jihadism in France, Spain and in Europe more generally. In France, special focus is given to the Mohammed Merah paradigmatic case study in the Toulouse region. In Spain, attention is given to the North and to Catalonia. With attention to both the concrete family - often in crisis - and the imaginary family invented by radicalized youth to substitute, this book shows the fundamental need among many jihadists to reconstitute the family, whether in the form of a clan or the imagined Caliphate (or neo-Ummah): a form of shared existence that offers escape from societies in which jihadists feel ill-at-ease. Demonstrating the failure of an emphasis on the individual actor to capture the meaning of jihadism, Family and Jihadism reveals the fundamental importance to our understanding of jihadist activity of the family (in an extended anthropological sense) - real or imagined - into which the individual is inserted. A study of the crisis of family and the re-creation of a new, enlarged family in the lives of young jihadists, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, politics and security studies with interests in radicalisation, political violence, social movements and religious violence.

Author : David Hicks
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021937151

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Ritual and Belief by David Hicks Pdf

This anthology presents a balanced mix of classic and contemporary readings designed to appeal to a variety of anthropological approaches and perspectives. It addresses topics such as religion, gender and sexuality, religion and the natural environment, and religion and the human body.

Author : Andrew Buckser,Stephen D. Glazier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780585483054

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The Anthropology of Religious Conversion by Andrew Buckser,Stephen D. Glazier Pdf

The Anthropology of Religious Conversion paints a picture of conversion far more complex than its customary image in anthropology and religious studies. Conversion is very seldom simply a sudden moment of insight or inspiration; it is a change both of individual consciousness and of social belonging, of mental attitude and of physical experience, whose unfolding depends both on its cultural setting and on the distinct individuals who undergo it. The book explores religious conversion in a variety of cultural settings and considers how anthropological approaches can help us understand the phenomenon. Fourteen case studies span historical and geographical contexts, including the contemporary United States, modern and medieval Europe, and non-western societies in South Asia, Melanesia, and South America. They discuss conversion to Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and Spiritualism. Combining ethnographic description with theoretical analysis, authors consider the nature and meaning of conversion, its social and political dimensions, and its relationship to individual religious experience.