Author : Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161550980
Religions are not primarily expressed in people's heads and their thoughts, but in what they do. People use religious symbols in order to orientate or change themselves. In this way, religion is related to all realms of human life. Jan-Olav Henriksen shows that only against this backdrop can we understand the role of religions in human life. Book jacket.
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781481312608
Demography drives religious change. High-fertility societies, like most of contemporary Africa, tend to be fervent and devout. The lower a population's fertility rates, the greater the tendency for people to detach from organized or institutional religion. Thus, fertility rates supply an effective gauge of secularization trends. In Fertility and Faith, Philip Jenkins maps the demographic revolution that has taken hold of many countries around the globe in recent decades and explores the implications for the future development of the world's religions. Demographic change has driven the secularization of contemporary Western Europe, where the revolution began. Jenkins shows how the European trajectory of rapid declines in fertility is now affecting much of the globe. The implications are clear: the religious character of many non-European areas is highly likely to move in the direction of sweeping secularization. And this is now reshaping the United States itself. This demographic revolution is reshaping Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism. In order to accommodate the new social trends, these religions must adapt to situations where large families are no longer the norm. Each religious tradition will develop distinctive emphases concerning morality, gender, and sexuality, as well as the roles of clergy and laity in the faith's institutional structures. Radical change follows great upheaval. The tidal shift is well underway. With Fertility and Faith, Philip Jenkins describes this ongoing phenomenon and envisions our collective religious future.
Author : Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567683311
Jan-Olav Henriksen reconstructs and analyzes Christianity as a cluster of practices that manifest a distinct historically and contextually shaped mode of being in the world. Henriksen suggests that these practices imply a complicated relationship between the tradition in which they originate, the community that emerges from and is constituted by that tradition, and the individuals who appropriate the tradition that these communities mediate through their practices. Thus, to think of Christianity simply in terms of belief is misleading and represents an underdetermination of its distinct character. Henriksen further argues this relationship needs to be described primarily as practices aimed at orientation and transformation. His analysis points to Christianity's similarity to other religions in regard to the functional or pragmatic dimensions it displays. Examining facets such as prayer, the use of scripture, preaching and doctrine, Henriksen emphasizes that the element that makes a practice distinctively Christian is how it relates to and is informed by the Jesus story.
Author : Herman Westerink
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3847100998
One of the major trends in the psychology of religion is the growing interest in religious and spiritual meaning making in relation to religious and spiritual transformation processes, notably as the aftermath of traumatic experiences and in situations of crisis, stress or disease when personal well-being is at stake and coping activities and skills are enhanced. This volume covers this broad and complex area of interrelated issues. The contributions focus on religious and spiritual meaning making and transformation. They do not compose an integrated perspective on religious meaning making and transformation processes. Rather, this volume assembles and presents the current state of research on this complex of issues. Thus it not only provides an excellent overview of the psychological study of constructs of meaning and religious transformation, but also contributes to our knowledge of contemporary religious life in the context of socio-cultural transformation processes (pluralisation, globalization).
Author : Nukhet A. Sandal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1107161711
The book introduces a theoretical framework to understand the role of religious leaders in conflict transformation and peacebuilding.
Author : Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781884527821
"Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department's curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down -- the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was. That idea seemed to fly in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a train wreck at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could."--Back cover.
Author : Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161550997
Chapter 6: The path and its conditions: Change and transformation -- Change and religion -- Historical change and epistemic stability (normativity) -- Philosophy of religions and human evolution: Religion and humanity have unfinished business -- Religion as motion - practices as learning and transformation -- Religions as different types of discourse -- Religion is mediation -- A pragmatic concept of religious knowledge -- The relation between O, T, and L in a learning perspective -- Religious learning, experience, and the need for orientation -- Chapter 7: Orientation and Legitimation Rooted in the Past: on Religion as a Chain of Memory -- Tradition and orientation -- Religion as a Chain of Memory -- Chapter 8: On interactions between the physical and the mystical realms of experience -- Schleiermacher: Religion in the interaction between the natural and the personal realm -- From nature to the mystical - reflections on the interaction between realms -- Conclusion: From experience to wisdom: the path revisited -- Chapter 9: Three metaphors for how religions work -- Religion as a virtual home -- Religion as Score and Play -- Chapter 10: Normative considerations: Religions as stewards of Wisdom? -- The Quest for Wisdom -- Basic experiences of the human condition -- A recipe against religious stupidity -- Chapter 11: Conclusions and implications -- The normative outcome -- Implications for a pragmatist view of religion -- Understanding religion in a late modern societal context -- A final note on secularization, detraditionalization, and authority -- Bibliography -- Indexes
Author : Luther Martin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110884208
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Author : Merril Silverstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2024-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666951307
Religious Change and Continuity Across Generations: Passing on Faith in Families of Six European and North American Nations brings together scholars of religious studies, secularism, and family science to examine how religion is passed down the generations in six European and North American nations. Taking a social change perspective within the context of family socialization theory, the authors treat intergenerational change and continuity in religion and spirituality as occurring under specific national and historical conditions. As such, they consider the social forces that variously reinforce or inhibit transmission of religiosity across successive generations within families. The volume provides a nuanced view of the role that societal context plays in religious transitions and transformations. Chapters consider the strong influence of the Roman Catholic church in Italy, Communist suppression of religion in Hungary, aversion to religious discussions in Finland, the East-West/Catholic-Protestant divide in Germany, and rapid religious deculturation in Canada and the U.S. Further, each chapter takes a mixed-methods approach, using quantitative survey data to describe the strength and pattern of intergenerational transmission and interview data to clarify family dynamics by which parents, and ofttimes grandparents, influence the religious beliefs and practices of younger generations—taking care to consider how the absence of religion is also conveyed to the next generation.
Author : Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3031210581
The Anthropocene presents theology, and especially theological anthropology, with unprecedented challenges. There are no immediately available resources in the theological tradition that reflect directly on such experiences. Accordingly, the situation calls for contextually based theological reflection of what it means to be human under such circumstances. This book discusses the main elements in theological anthropology in light of the fundamental points: a) that theological anthropology needs to be articulated with reference to, and informed by, the concrete historical circumstances in which humanity presently finds itself, and b) that the notion of the Anthropocene can be used as a heuristic tool to describe important traits and conditions that call for a response by humanity, and which entail the need for a renewal of what a Christian self-understanding means. Jan-Olav Henriksen explores what such a response entails from the point of view of contemporary theological anthropology and discusses selected topics that can contribute to a contextually based position.
