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

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2017

Dynamics of Religion

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

Edited by: Christoph Bochinger and Jörg Rüpke
Together with: Elisabeth Begemann and European Research Council (ERC)

Volume 67 in the series Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110450934

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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.

Author / Editor information

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

Reviews

"Dabei zeigen die in dem Band versammelten Beiträge die Stärken, aber auch ein Stück weit die Aporien gegenwärtiger Religionswissenschaft. Ihre Stärken, um nur einige wenige Aspekte zu nennen, liegen etwa in ihren zumeist multidimensionalen und multiperspektivischen Herangehensweisen innerhalb eines breit gefassten kulturwissenschaftlichen Referenzrahmens, in der interdisziplinären Verstrebung mit benachbarten Disziplinen, in der selbstreflexiven Durchdringung aufgrund ihrer Opazität oder sogar Intransigenz oftmals schwer zugänglicher Phänomene, oder im Wagnis, die vor gestellten Überlegungen auch in größere Theoriezusammenhänge einzustellen."
Klaus Hock in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 142 (2017), 12, 1306-1308

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Tim Jensen Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Christoph Bochinger Publicly Available Download PDF	1
The Dynamics of Religions and Cultural Evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in Contemporary China Hubert Seiwert Publicly Available Download PDF	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 Publicly Available Download PDF	31
The Tactics of (In)Visibility among Religious Communities in Contemporary Europe Kim Knott Publicly Available Download PDF	47
Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa Gerald O. West Publicly Available Download PDF	69
Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society: Tradition, Invention, and Transformation Peter Beyer Publicly Available Download PDF	85
Subversive Spirituality: Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies Decolonizing Religious Beliefs Sylvia Marcos Publicly Available Download PDF	109
Religion and the Historical Imagination: Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention Wouter J. Hanegraaff Publicly Available Download PDF	131
Religion and Life Trajectories: Islamists Against Self and Other Abdulkader Tayob Publicly Available Download PDF	155
Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today Ingvild Sælid Gilhus Publicly Available Download PDF	171
Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar: Religion in Modern Times Kalpana Ram Publicly Available Download PDF	191
‘Cloning Minds’: Religion between Individuals and Collectives Jeppe Sinding Jensen Publicly Available Download PDF	211
Of Yellow Teaching and Black Faith: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religious Traditions Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz Publicly Available Download PDF	231
Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion Martin Mulsow Publicly Available Download PDF	251
Narrating, Performing and Feeling a ‘Religion’: On Representations of Judaism Cristiana Facchini Publicly Available Download PDF	273
The President’s Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress Publicly Available Download PDF	297
The General Secretary’s Welcome Note to the 2015 Erfurt IAHR World Congress Publicly Available Download PDF	299
The Academic Program Publicly Available Download PDF	303
Abstracts
A Balancing Act: Minority Religious Communities and Processes of Transformation–Exploring Aniconism Publicly Available Download PDF	311
Exploring the Post-Secular–Pentecostalism and the Practice of Religions in Nigeria: Adaptation and Transformation Publicly Available Download PDF	505
Performance of Language: Space and Time in Meister Eckhart and Modism–The Work of Data: Methods in the Study of Religions Publicly Available Download PDF	696
Congress Committees Publicly Available Download PDF	893
Minutes of the International Committee Meeting Publicly Available Download PDF	895
Minutes of the General Assembly Publicly Available Download PDF	929
Minutes of the Women Scholars Network Meeting Publicly Available Download PDF	953
The Congress Directors’ General Report on the XXI IAHR World Congress Publicly Available Download PDF	957
The Congress Administrator’s Statistical Report Publicly Available Download PDF	981

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students and scholars in Religious Studies , historians of religion and historians worldwide, sociologists of religion
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 296
Keywords: Religious change; religion in society; spirituality; historiography of religion

eBook

Published: November 21, 2016
ISBN: 9783110450934

Hardcover

Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9783110450927