Religion In Cultural Imaginary

Author : Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Publisher : Nomos Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3845264063
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Cultural Imaginary written by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and published by Nomos Verlag. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das vielschichtige Konzept des Imaginären erweist sich als weiterführende Kategorie, um die Präsenz und Diffusion religiöser Symbole, Weltbilder und Narrative in verschiedenen Medien und gesellschaftlichen Bereichen wie Politik, Wirtschaft, Kunst und Populärkultur einzufangen. Eingesetzt, um die Rezeption und Transformation religiöser Referenzen durch Zeit und Kulturen zu fassen, kann das Imaginäre verstanden werden als geteilter Fundus von mentalen Bildern und materiellen Gegenständen, von Ideen, Symbolen, Werten und Praktiken, die zur Produktion von Bedeutung und dem gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt beitragen. Im Schnittbereich von soziologischen, politisch-philosophischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Zugängen zu Religion bietet die interdisziplinäre Studie einen intensiven Austausch zwischen theoretischer Diskussion und reichhaltigen empirischen Analysen. Mit Beiträgen von Daria Pezzoli-Ogiati, Ann Jeffers, Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Natasha O'Hear, Davide Zordan, Natalie Fritz, Marie-Therese Mäder, Sean Ryan, Stefanie Knauss, Alexander D. Ornella

Author : Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783290220334
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Cultural Imaginary written by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113670728X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia written by Anne Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and early colonial period. Chapters explore the multiple understandings of time and the past that informed the historical imagination in various kinds of literary representations, including historiographical and literary texts, hagiography, and religious canonical literature. The book addresses the contributing forces and comparative implications of the formation of religious and communitarian sensibilities as expressed through the imagination of the past, and suggests how these relate to each other within and across traditions in South Asia. By bringing diverse materials together, this book presents new commonalities and distinctions that inform a larger understanding of how religion and other cultural formations impinge on the concept of temporality, and the representation of it as history.

Author : Toma Longinović
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350394
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampire Nation written by Toma Longinović and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century.

Author : Hans Alma
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110435128
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Imaginaries in a Globalizing World written by Hans Alma and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to study the contemporary dynamics between the religious, the nonreligious and the secular in a globalizing world? Obviously, their relationship is not an empirical datum, liable to the procedures of verification or of logical deduction. We are in need of alternative conceptual and methodological tools. This volume argues that the concept of ‘social imaginary’ as it is used by Charles Taylor, is of utmost importance as a methodological tool to understand these dynamics. The first section is dedicated to the conceptual clarification of Taylor's notion of social imaginaries both through a historical study of their genealogy and through conceptual analysis. In the second section, we clarify the relation of ‘social imaginaries’ to the concept of (religious) worldviewing, understood as a process of truth seeking. Furthermore, we discuss the practical usefulness of the concept of social imaginaries for cultural scientists, by focusing on the concept of human rights as a secular social imaginary. In the third and final section, we relate Taylor's view on the role of social imaginaries and the new paths it opens up for religious studies to other analyses of the secular-religious divide, as they nowadays mainly come to the fore in the debates on what is coined as the ‘post-secular.’

Author : T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691211981
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How God Becomes Real written by T.M. Luhrmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.

Author : Anne M. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131741019X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity, Religion and Youth Cultures written by Anne M. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the rich intersection between faith, religion and performing arts in culture-based youth groups. The co-constitutive identity-building work of music, performance, and drama for Samoan and Sudanese youth in church contexts has given rise to new considerations of diversity, cultural identity and the religious practices and rituals that inform them. For these young people, their culture-specific churches provide a safe if "imagined community" (Anderson, 2006) in which they can express these emerging identities, which move beyond simple framings like "multicultural" to explicitly include faith practices. These identities emerge in combination with popular cultural art forms like hip hop, R-&-B and gospel music traditions, and performance influences drawn from American, British and European popular cultural forms (including fashion, reality television, social media, gaming, and online video-sharing). The book also examines the ways in which diasporic experiences are reshaping these cultural and gendered identities and locations.

Author : Laura Bieger
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611684064
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imaginary and Its Worlds written by Laura Bieger and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence and the reproduction of the social, the imaginary is ideally suited to chart the consequences of the transnational turn in American studies. Leading scholars in the field from the United States and Europe address the literary, social, and political dimensions of the imaginary, providing a methodological and theoretical groundwork for American studies scholarship in the transnational era and opening new arenas for conceptualizing formations of imaginary belonging and subjectivity. This important state-of-the-field collection will appeal to a broad constituency of humanists working to overcome methodological nationalism. The Imaginary and Its Worlds: An Introduction * LITERARY IMAGINARIES * Imagining Cultures: The Transnational Imaginary in Postrace America - Ramon Saldivar * The Necessary Fragmentation of the (U.S.) Literary-Cultural Imaginary - Lawrence Buell * Imaginaries of American Modernism - Heinz Ickstadt * SOCIAL IMAGINARIES * William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries - Herwig Friedl * The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary - Christa Buschendorf * Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific - Lene Johannessen * Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch - Mark Seltzer * POLITICAL IMAGINARIES * Real Toads - Walter Benn Michaels * Obama Unwound: The Romanticism of Victory and the Defeat of Compromise - Christopher Newfield * Barack Obama's Orphic Mysteries - Donald E. Pease * Coda. The Imaginary and the Second Narrative: Reading as Transfer - Winfried Fluck * Contributors * Index

Author : Kwok Pui-lan
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 1646982304
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Politics and Theology written by Kwok Pui-lan and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Politics and Theology seeks to reform and reimagine the field of political theology—uprooting it from the colonial soil—using the comparative lenses of postcolonial politics and theology to bring attention to the realities of the Global South. Kwok Pui-lan traces the history of the political impacts of Western theological development, especially developments in the U.S. context, and the need to shift these interlocking fields toward non-Western traditions in theory and practice. A special focus of the book is on the changing sociopolitical realities of American Empire and Sino-American competition, illustrated in Donald Trump's slogan of "Make America Great Again" and Xi Jinping’s hope for a “China Dream.” The shifting of U.S. and Asian relationships highlights the need to move our theological and political categories away from a vision of strongman domination and toward a postmodern, postcolonial, and transnational world, especially exemplified in the Asia Pacific context. Throughout, Kwok overturns the idea of centering one cultural framework and marginalizing others in favor of living into a multiplicity of deeply contextual theologies. She explores how these theologies are being developed in global, postcolonial contexts, through struggles for democracy and civil disobedience in Hong Kong, by efforts to reclaim selfhood and sexual identity from exploitative colonial desire, through the work of interreligious solidarity and peacebuilding, and in the practice of earth care in the face of ecological crisis.

Author : Gnana Patrick
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506449182
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Theology written by Gnana Patrick and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates public theology within the genre of political theology. Drawing upon the distinct strands of political theologies identified by Daniel M. Bell, Jr., Gnana Patrick treats public theology as the form of political theology for our contemporary era and takes special care to relate these strands of political theologies to the Indian context, thereby opening up the theological horizon for Indian public theology. Further, Public Theology dwells upon certain prominent features of our contemporary global world and discerns the human need for experiencing transcendence today. Taking faith to be the catalyst for this experience of transcendence, it points to civil society as the interstice through which faith can be imparted to the contemporary world. And, it argues for the relevance of public theology for that work.