Metamorphoses Of Religion And Spirituality In Central And Eastern Europe

Author : Sławomir H. Zaręba
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100057279X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metamorphoses of Religion and Spirituality in Central and Eastern Europe written by Sławomir H. Zaręba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a range of contemporary sociological reflections on new manifestations of religion, religiosity, and spirituality in Central and Eastern Europe, a region that has seen significant social and political transformation. It explores the development of cultural and religious trends, including secularisation, new spiritualit,y and a resurgence of religiosity outside of traditional structures. The theoretical and empirical contributions by established and emerging scholars address topics including: the experiences and values of young people, the role and influence of media, the relationship between public and private religion, and the position of state and institutions. The book will be of particular interest to sociologists of religion and others focused on contemporary Central and Eastern European societies.

Author : Miklós Tomka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110228157
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expanding Religion written by Miklós Tomka and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does religion in Eastern and Central Europe matter? -- Public opinion on religion and the churches -- Revival? crisis? metamorphosis? : versions of religious change -- A role of religion in the organization of life -- Assortments of religion -- The prospects for religious development.

Author : András Máté-Tóth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311039068X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus on Religion in Central and Eastern Europe written by András Máté-Tóth and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different religious groups in Central and Eastern Europe influenced societies in the region after the fall of Communism and continue to play a crucial role in culture, politics, social networks and value transformations. As part of the REVACERN (Religion and Values in Central and Eastern Europe Research Network) project – supported by the EU Sixth Framework Program – more than 70 researchers from 15 countries in the region analyzed and discussed the most important trends in values, religions and religious communities and presented their findings in a comparative way. They tested well-known theories of secularization, nationalism, democracy and pluralism in the colorful region Central and Eastern Europe. This book summarizes their most important findings in seven chapters, addressing religion and its entanglements with geography, values, nationalism, Orthodoxy, education, legal regulation, civil society, social networks, new religious movements and new forms of religiosity. Each chapter also provides a regional overview.

Author : Sharada Sugirtharajah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000556271
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing written by Sharada Sugirtharajah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the theme of happiness and well-being from religious, spiritual, philosophical, psychological, humanistic, and health perspectives. Taking a non-binary approach, it considers how happiness in particular has been understood and appropriated in religious and non-religious strands of thought. The chapters offer incisive insight from a variety of perspectives, including humanism, atheism and major religions such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism. Together they demonstrate that although worldviews might vary substantially, there are concurrences across religious and non-religious perspectives on happiness that provide a common ground for further cross-cultural and interreligious exploration. What the book makes clear is that happiness is not a static or monolithic category. It is an ongoing process of being and becoming, striving and seeking, living ethically and meaningfully, as well as arriving at a tranquil state of being. This multifaceted volume makes a fresh contribution to the contemporary study of happiness and is valuable reading for scholars and students from religious studies and theology, including those interested in interreligious dialogue and the psychology of religion, as well as positive psychology.

Author : Stipe Odak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000624048
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balkan Contextual Theology written by Stipe Odak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens a new research field in Balkan contextual theology. By embracing culturally rich traditions of the Western Balkans as its starting point, it explores their existential and theological bearings. Placed at the crossroads of civilisations and religions, this region has witnessed some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. At the same time, it has produced unique textures of inter-cultural life. The volume addresses some of the most poignant phenomena endemic to the region, such as sevdalinka music, intimate forms of neighborhood, archetypes of ‘sacred warriors,’ the experience of democratic jet lag, collective melancholy, and intergenerational trauma. As the first book of this nature, it aims to encourage further development of contextual theological thinking in the region and promote its international reception.

Author : T. Bremer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230590020
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe written by T. Bremer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concentrates on the 'conceptual boundary' through Europe which is determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. The chapters show that the boundary has never been a stable and defined division, but that it was also subject to change and development and a place of encounter and exchange between religions and cultures.

Author : Yoko Aoshima
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644693836
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entangled Interactions between Religion and National Consciousness in Central and Eastern Europe written by Yoko Aoshima and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the complicated relationship between religion and national consciousness in the modern world, highlighting various cases within Central and Eastern Europe. Through these analyses, contributors demonstrate how religion, far from disappearing, strongly impacted the emerging national consciousness. Starting with the pre-modern era, essays examine the long-term transformation of religious, political, and social situations of the region. In addition, the book considers the impact of imperial powers, which tended to be linked with a universal religion. Light is also shed on the multifaceted nature of nations, which contribute to a new vision of the historical transformation of the region that enriches the general theories of nationalism.

Author : Jenny Vorpahl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110546558
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communicating Religion and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe written by Jenny Vorpahl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together case studies dealing with historical as well as recent phenomena in former socialist nations, which testify the transfer of knowledge about religion and atheism. The material is connected on a semantic level by the presence of a historical watershed before and after socialism as well as on a theoretical level by the sociology of knowledge. With its focus on Central and Eastern Europe this volume is an important contribution to the research on nonreligion and secularity. The collected volume deals with agents and media within specific cultural and historical contexts. Theoretical claims and conceptions by single agents and/or institutions in which the imparting of knowledge about religion and atheism was or is a central assignment, are analyzed. Additionally, procedures of transmitting knowledge about religion and atheism and of sustaining related institutionalized norms, interpretations, roles and practices are in the focus of interest. The book opens the perspective for the multidimensional and negotiating character of legitimation processes, being involved in the establishment or questioning of the institutionalized opposition between religion and atheism or religion and science.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004292780
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Opened written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe offers an account of the research focused on the origins, development and the current situation of the Study of Religions in the 20th century in countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, and Russia. Special attention is devoted to the ideological influences determining the interpretation of religion, especially connected with the rise of Marxist-Leninist criticism of religion.

Author : Bruce R. Berglund
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211825
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe written by Bruce R. Berglund and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious history more generally has experienced an exciting revival over the past few years, with new methodological and theoretical approaches invigorating the field. The time has definitely come for this “new religious history” to arrive in Eastern Europe. This book explores the influence of the Christian churches in Eastern Europe's social, cultural, and political history. Drawing upon archival sources, the work fills a vacuum as few scholars have systematically explored the history of Christianity in the region. The result of a three-year project, this collective work challenges readers with questions like: Is secularization a useful concept in understanding the long-term dynamics of religiosity in Eastern Europe? Is the picture of oppression and resistance an accurate way to characterize religious life under communism, or did Christians and communists find ways to co-exist on the local level prior to 1989? And what role did Christians actually play in dissident movements under communism? Perhaps most important is the question: what does the study of Eastern Europe contribute to the broader study of modern Christian history, and what can we learn from the interpretative problems that arise, uniquely, from this region?