Religion and its other : secular and sacral concepts and practices in interaction / Heike Bock, Jörg Feuchter, Michi Knecht (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bock, Heike.

Feuchter, Jörg, 1967-

Knecht, Michi

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Religion and civilization.

Religion and culture.

Religions.

Secularism.

Physical Description:

247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, [2008]

Summary:

Modern Western thought has traditionally relegated the religious and the secular to two entirely different spheres. Religion and Its Other takes issue with this oversimplified dichotomy, tracing the borders and grey areas between religion and the secular world as conceived of in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim cultures past and present. A unique collection of theoretically informed historical and anthropological case studies, this comprehensive volume includes discussions of medieval atheism, Egyptian modernization, Jewish mysticism, Lutheran angels, and other such topics. Religion and Its Other will enrich the library of anyone interested in the social construction of religion across the centuries.

Contents:

Rethinking religious reform. Law, ethics and religion in the story of Egyptian modernization / Talal Asad ; Muhammad Rashîd Ridâ (1865 -1935) or The importance of being (a) journalist / Dyala Hamzah ; Islamic reformism and the secular: Rashîd Ridâ's theory on miracles / Richard van Leeuwen ; Early modern probabilism as a secularizing doctrine: including a preliminary comparison with some interpretive instruments of "liberal Islam" / Carlos Martínez Valle

Rewriting genealogies. Beyond religion: on the lack of belief during the central and late Middle Ages / Dorothea Weltecke ; The Islamic Ribāt: a model for the Christian military orders? Sacred violence, secularized concepts of religion and the invention of a cultural transfer / Jörg Feuchter ; The formation of Jewish mysticism and its impact on the reception of Rabbi Abraham Abulafia in contemporary Kabbalah / Boaz Huss

Transcending borders and boundaries. The devil in Spandau: demonology between religion and magic at the end of the sixteenth century / Vera Isaiasz ; Science treats, but only God can heal: medical pluralism between religion and the secular in Ghana / Kristine Krause ; Formations of the religious self: becoming "women in Christ" in a globalizing world / Gertrud Hüwelmeier ; Image, trance, and the other in Mediterranean folk religion / Thomas Hauschild.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index of names and places.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783593386638

3593386631

OCLC:

225876149