Religious innovation in a global age : essays on the construction of spirituality / edited by George N. Lundskow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lundskow, George N., 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Physical Description:

viii, 290 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2005]

Summary:

This collection of essays theoretically and empirically examines how diverse groups are trying to restore a sense of meaning through religious innovation. The first group of essays consider new developments in religion and the larger quest for meaning. The second group examines grass roots emancipation movements, which seek an expanded role for the individual in both belief and practice. Topics range from theoretical considerations (e.g., Max Horkheimer's critical theory of religion) to popular culture phenomena (e.g., Christian speed/thrash metal), with particular emphasis on recent events in Europe (e.g., developments within the Polish Roman Catholic Church, the Finnish Satanism scare of 1999, and Islam and politics in Turkey).

Contents:

Surplus, excess, waste, leftovers, and remainders : the dialectic of productive functions, antisemitism, and the vissicitudes of social forces / Mark P. Worrell

The open dialectic between religious and secular values and norms : the course of civilization in the past century / Rudolf J. Siebert

Spirituality and social character : the case of new evangelicalism and neopaganism / George N. Lundskow

A critique of the ambiguity of bourgeois religion : Max Horkheimer's critical theory of religion / Michael R. Ott

Apocalyptic unbound : an interpretation of Christian speed/thrash metal music / Charles M. Brown

Islamic fundamentalism, modernity, and the role of women / Mahruq F. Khan and Lauren Langman

Legion of small knights : informal movement within the Polish Roman Catholic Church / Agnieszka Koscianska

Religionizing crime : ethos and action in the construction of the Finnish satanism scare / Titus Hjelm

There's no place like home.html: neopaganism on the internet / Alyssa Beall

Religious conflict in the periphery : Islam and politics in Turkey / Mustafa Saatci

The Virgin Mary versus the monkeys / Deana C. Weibel

Martyrdom and violence in Sikhism : the transfer of embodied experience through witnessing / Rory G. McCarthy

Catholicism recycled : the New Age in Poland / Dorota Hall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0786419776

OCLC:

56615770