Imagining Religion In The Czech Republic

Author : Jakub Havlicek
Publisher : LIT Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3643963424
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Religion in the Czech Republic written by Jakub Havlicek and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we think about ourselves and others? Part one of the book examines the notion of human universals in cultural anthropology, psychology, linguistics, and in cognitive sciences. This part is focused on the issue of examining the processes of conceptualization, categorization and classification of human types and identities and it examines the role of psychological essentialism in these processes. It also focuses on the topic of religiously interpreted identities. Part two examines religiosity in modern Czech society. Contemporary Czech religiosity or lack thereof has been interpreted narrowly from the perspective of socially and culturally conceptualized factors. Other possible factors have been neglected – for example neuropsychological aspects. The World Religions Paradigm that underpins teaching about religions in Czech education system, is composed of reified concepts of religious traditions. This paradigm provides a basis for essentialised conceptualization of religiously interpreted identities in contemporary Czech society. Jakub Havlí?ek is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Cultural Anthropology, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Author : Jakub Havlicek
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643913427
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Religion in the Czech Republic written by Jakub Havlicek and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we think about ourselves and others? Part one of the book examines the notion of human universals in cultural anthropology, psychology, linguistics, and in cognitive sciences. This part is focused on the issue of examining the processes of conceptualization, categorization and classification of human types and identities and it examines the role of psychological essentialism in these processes. It also focuses on the topic of religiously interpreted identities. Part two examines religiosity in modern Czech society. Contemporary Czech religiosity or lack thereof has been interpreted narrowly from the perspective of socially and culturally conceptualized factors. Other possible factors have been neglected – for example neuropsychological aspects. The World Religions Paradigm that underpins teaching about religions in Czech education system, is composed of reified concepts of religious traditions. This paradigm provides a basis for essentialised conceptualization of religiously interpreted identities in contemporary Czech society.

Author : E. Thomas Lawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350355895
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion written by E. Thomas Lawson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniting Thomas Lawson's essays on the cognitive science of religion, this volume explores theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena such as religion, the role of imagination, and the experiments that emerge from these theories. The book begins with Lawson's influential essay “Towards a Cognitive Science of Religion,” which was the first to employ the phrase, and has since become widely adopted in many different disciplines. It signals to scholars in the humanities that the cognitive revolution has finally reached them and serves to introduce them to the world of science. The rest of the book focuses on theoretical issues in the study of cultural phenomena and describes experiments by scholars working on the connections between cognition and culture. Described as "the grandfather of the cognitive science of religion," Lawson offers a unique perspective on the development of the field and the principles that underlie it, which will be relevant to both newcomers and established scholars.

Author : Ira Katznelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493175
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Political Imagination written by Ira Katznelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global process by nineteenth-century thinkers, the theory was given substance by the precipitate drop in religious practice across Western Europe in the 1960s. However, the re-emergence of acute conflicts at the interface between religion and politics has confounded such assumptions. It is clear that these ideas must be rethought. Yet, as this distinguished, international team of scholars reveal, not everything contained in the idea of secularisation was false. Analyses of developments since 1500 reveal a wide spectrum of historical processes: partial secularisation in some spheres has been accompanied by sacralisation in others. Utilising new approaches derived from history, philosophy, politics and anthropology, the essays collected in Religion and the Political Imagination offer new ways of thinking about the urgency of religious issues in the contemporary world.

Author : Martin Nitsche
Publisher : Verlag Traugott Bautz
ISBN 13 : 395948660X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image and Imagination in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience written by Martin Nitsche and published by Verlag Traugott Bautz. This book was released on with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jiří Rajmund Tretera
Publisher : Kluwer Law International
ISBN 13 : 9789041158963
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Law in the Czech Republic written by Jiří Rajmund Tretera and published by Kluwer Law International. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : František Šístek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789207754
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe written by František Šístek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic “Other” living just a stone’s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. To a significant degree, the wider representations and perceptions of this population can be traced to the reports of Central European—and especially Habsburg—diplomats, scholars, journalists, tourists, and other observers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims’ encounters with the West since the nineteenth century.

Author : Ted Turnau
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1789744741
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagination Manifesto written by Ted Turnau and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Turnau introduces readers to the major themes of his in-depth Oasis of Imagination by collaborating with Ruth Naomi Floyd. Floyd brings her distinctive experience as a Christian artist to make this a practical guide that distils the "why" and "how" of embracing Christian creative cultural engagement. Why does the church need to pay more attention to the imagination? How can we, in this day and age, best enter our cultural conversations for the common good? How can the local church better support its creatives, enriching its own imaginative life and building bridges to their neighbours and the wider culture? Whether you are a Christian artist or creative yourself, or an everyday Christian searching for a path beyond the culture wars and Christian bubble, Imagination Manifesto will give you biblical foundations, practical pointers, discussion starters, and inspiration for "planting oases" in today's culture.

Author : Hana Kubátová
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004362444
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938-89 written by Hana Kubátová and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses the image of ‘the Jew’ as it developed and transformed in both Czech and Slovak society under the nondemocratic regimes of the twentieth century. It is the first serious attempt to offer a comparative analysis of anti-Jewish prejudices in the Czech and Slovak mindset between 1938 and 1989.

Author : Ted Turnau
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1789744776
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oasis of Imagination written by Ted Turnau and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should the church's cultural witness be? Too often, it has been marked by political strong-arming or fearful withdrawal into the "Christian bubble." There is another way: creative cultural engagement, using our imaginations to plant oases in the desert, breathable spaces that refresh, challenge, and draw together Christians and non-Christians alike. Oases refresh the soul, provoke discussion, challenge assumptions, and lead the imagination to a new place. In Oasis of Imagination, Ted Turnau lays out the Biblical mandate for engaging culture, and why the imaginative path holds promise. He explores the nature of the imagination from both Scripture and nature. He asks, "What makes a Christian imagination that resonates with non-Christians different?" He explores examples of Christian creativity done well from video games to movies to music to The Lord of the Rings. He challenges the church, artist and non-artist alike, to be intentional about their own imaginative lives, how artists and non-artists can support each other, as they together engage in building bridges and being cultural ambassadors to the wider community. In-depth and wide-ranging, Oasis of Imagination equips and encourages Christians, whatever their calling, to consider how to imaginatively enter into the broader cultural conversation, beyond the culture-warring and Christian bubbles. It seeks to provoke a conversation within the church between its artists and non-artists about how best to unleash our God-given creativity to shine light into the broader culture.