Power and Religiosity in a Post-colonial Setting
Author : R. L. Stirrat
Publisher :
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN :
Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting
Author : R. L. Stirrat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521026505
Book Description
This study of religious change and cultural fragmentation in contemporary Sri Lanka focuses on a series of new Catholic shrines that attract hundreds of pilgrims. Their fame is based, among other things, on their efficacy as centers for demonic exorcism, alleviating suffering and helping people to find jobs. The author looks at the rise of these shrines in relation to the historical experience of the Catholic community in Sri Lanka, rather than in terms of narrowly defined religious criteria. Central to this broader nonreligious context is the role of power and especially the impact of post colonialism on the small Roman Catholic population.
John and Postcolonialism
Author : Musa W. Dube Shomanah
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1841273120
Book Description
An exciting collection of essays connecting postcolonialism and the Gospel of John, written by a group of international scholars, both established and new, from Hispanic, African, Jewish, Chinese, Korean and African-American backgrounds. It explores important topics such as the appropriation of John in settler communities of the United States and Canada, and the use of John in the colonisation of Africa, Asia, Latin America and New Zealand.The interpreters represent communities of borderland dwellers, women in colonised settings, minority ethnic groups within colonised centres and others. In an era of rapid globalisation, increased travel, rising diasporic communities and neo-colonialism, it is crucial that biblical scholars find ways to address this world with critical skill and sensitivity. This book fills this need.
Orientalism and Religion
Author : Richard King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1134632347
Book Description
Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be reinterpreted along the lines of cultural studies. Drawing on a variety of post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers, such as Foucault, Gadamer, Said, and Spivak, King provides us with a challenging series of reflections on the nature of Religious Studies and Indology.
Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society
Author : Milda Ališauskiene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317066960
Book Description
Since the end of state repression against religion, two major processes have taken place in the formerly socialist countries: historically dominant churches strive to reassert their position in society, while new religious groups and ideas from various parts of the world are proliferating. This generates pluralism of religious communities and individual religious attitudes. Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society presents the first collection of ethnographies of this new religious diversity for Lithuania, a country that has a long history of a dominant Catholic Church. The authors reveal how Catholicism has become increasingly diversified and other religions (Charismatic Protestantism, Baltic Paganism, Eastern religions and other alternative spiritualities) are claiming their space in the religious field.
Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society
Author : Ingo W Schröder
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1409481700
Book Description
Since the end of state repression against religion, two major processes have taken place in the formerly socialist countries: historically dominant churches strive to reassert their position in society, while new religious groups and ideas from various parts of the world are proliferating. This generates pluralism of religious communities and individual religious attitudes. Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society presents the first collection of ethnographies of this new religious diversity for Lithuania, a country that has a long history of a dominant Catholic Church. The authors reveal how Catholicism has become increasingly diversified and other religions (Charismatic Protestantism, Baltic Paganism, Eastern religions and other alternative spiritualities) are claiming their space in the religious field.
A Comparative Sociology of World Religions
Author : Stephen Sharot
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2001-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814798047
Book Description
Sharot (sociology, Ben-Gurion U. of the Neger) focuses on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. He presents several relevant concepts and theories including a model of religious action based on the work of Max Weber, and a discussion of elites and masses as represented in Weber's comparison of world religions. Coverage encompasses religious action in world religions; Brahmans, Renouncers, and Hinduisim in India; Buddhism and Animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia; traditional Catholicism in Europe; Islam and Judaism; Protestants, Catholics and the reform of popular religion; and a comparison of religious elites and popular religions. c. Book News Inc.
Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity
Author : Vlad Naumescu
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Post-communism
ISBN : 382589908X
Book Description
This volume offers original insights into the religious transformations taking place in postsocialist western Ukraine. Applying a cognitive theory based on two modes of religiosity, the doctrinal and the imagistic, author Vlad Naumescu reveals the mechanisms of reproduction and change that make the local eastern Christian tradition a living tradition of faith. He combines rich ethnographic materials with historical and theological sources to depict a religion in equilibrium between the two modes, maintaining revelation at the core of its doctrinal corpus. He argues that religion is a potential source for social change that empowers people to act upon reality and transform it. With his innovative exploration of the dynamics of an eastern Christian tradition, Naumescu makes a major contribution to the emerging anthropology of Christianity as well as to studies of postsocialism.
Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse
Author : Kwok Pui-Lan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1136697616
Book Description
Contributors examine white feminist theology's misappropriations of Native North American women, Chinese footbinding, and veiling by Muslim women, as well as the Jewish emancipation in France, the symbolic dismemberment of black women by rap and sermons, and the potential to rewrite and reclaim canonical stories.
Religious Division and Social Conflict
Author : Peggy Froerer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351378120
Book Description
This book is an ethnographic account of the emergence of Hindu nationalism in a tribal (adivasi) community in Chhattisgarh, central India. It is argued that the successful spread of Hindu nationalism in this area is due to the involvement of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a militant Hindu nationalist organization, in local affairs. While active engagement in 'civilizing' strategies has enabled the RSS to legitimize its presence and endear itself to the local community, the book argues that participation in more aggressive strategies has made it possible for this organization to fuel and attach local tensions to a broader Hindu nationalist agenda.
