Dynamics of Religion: Past and Present. Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions

Religious ideas, practices, discourses, institutions, and social expressions are in constant flux. This volume addresses the internal and external dynamics, interactions between individuals, religious communities, and local as well as global society. The contributions concentrate on four areas:

1. Contemporary religion in the public sphere: The Tactics of (In)visibility among Religious Communities in Europe; Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa;

2. Religious transformations: Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society; Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies and the Decolonization of Religious Beliefs; Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention;

3. Focus on the individual: Religion and Life Trajectories of Islamists; Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today; Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar in Today’s Religion; Religion between Individuals and Collectives;

4. Narrating religion: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religions in Mongolia and Europe; Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion; On Representing Judaism.

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Dynamics of Religion: Past and Present. Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions

Religious ideas, practices, discourses, institutions, and social expressions are in constant flux. This volume addresses the internal and external dynamics, interactions between individuals, religious communities, and local as well as global society. The contributions concentrate on four areas:

1. Contemporary religion in the public sphere: The Tactics of (In)visibility among Religious Communities in Europe; Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa;

2. Religious transformations: Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society; Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies and the Decolonization of Religious Beliefs; Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention;

3. Focus on the individual: Religion and Life Trajectories of Islamists; Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today; Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar in Today’s Religion; Religion between Individuals and Collectives;

4. Narrating religion: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religions in Mongolia and Europe; Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion; On Representing Judaism.

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Dynamics of Religion: Past and Present. Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions

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Religious ideas, practices, discourses, institutions, and social expressions are in constant flux. This volume addresses the internal and external dynamics, interactions between individuals, religious communities, and local as well as global society. The contributions concentrate on four areas:

1. Contemporary religion in the public sphere: The Tactics of (In)visibility among Religious Communities in Europe; Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa;

2. Religious transformations: Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society; Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies and the Decolonization of Religious Beliefs; Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention;

3. Focus on the individual: Religion and Life Trajectories of Islamists; Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today; Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar in Today’s Religion; Religion between Individuals and Collectives;

4. Narrating religion: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religions in Mongolia and Europe; Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion; On Representing Judaism.

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ISBN-13: 9783110451108
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 11/21/2016
Series: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten , #67
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 305
File size: 23 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Christoph Bochinger, Universität Bayreuth, und Jörg Rüpke, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt.
Christoph Bochinger, University of Bayreuth,Germany and Jörg Rüpke, Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction Christoph Bochinger Jörg Rüpke 1

The Dynamics of Religions and Cultural Evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in Contemporary China Hubert Seiwert 9

Religion and Public Space in Contemporary Japan: Re-activation of the Civilization of the Axial Age and the Manifestation of State Shinto and Buddhism Susumu Shimazono 31

The Tactics of (In)Visibility among Religious Communities in Contemporary Europe Kim Knott 47

Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa Gerald O. West 69

Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society: Tradition, Invention, and Transformation Peter Beyer 85

Subversive Spirituality: Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies Decolonizing Religious Beliefs Sylvia Marcos 109

Religion and the Historical Imagination: Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention Wouter J. Hanegraaff 131

Religion and Life Trajectories: Islamists Against Self and Other Abdulkader Tayob 155

Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today Ingvild Sælid Gilhus 171

Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar: Religion in Modern Times Kalpana Ram 191

'Cloning Minds': Religion between Individuals and Collectives Jeppe Sinding Jensen 211

Of Yellow Teaching and Black Faith: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religious Traditions Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz 231

Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion Martin Mulsow 251

Narrating, Performing and Feeling a 'Religion': On Representations of Judaism Cristiana Facchini 273

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