Experiencing religion : new approaches to personal religiosity / edited by Clara Saraiva [and 4 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saraiva, Clara, editor.

Series:

Ethnology of religion ; volume 1.

Ethnology of religion ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious life.

Physical Description:

vi, 234 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Zürich : Lit Verlag, [2016]

Summary:

The various ethnologists and anthropologists contributing to this volume focus on the "self-perspective in relation to religion and spirituality: on how religiosity is personally thought, dreamt, imagined, created, felt, perceived and experienced, in its various subjective forms. The personal motive and practice in religion is here put to the front. One can see this perspective also reflected in today's society, in the ways people, most strongly in the West, are nowadays dealing with religion, religiosity or spirituality, often drifted far away from the institutional church organizations. As a deeply personal experience, it is amazing how little effort is undertaken in a scholarly way to put the personal reflections, utterings and experiences into words. A wide variety of personal religious or spiritual experiences, Christian and non-Christian, recent and historical, are now described and analysed in this fascinating volume. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 "I Wanted to Play Judas": Performativity as an Element of Personal Religiosity / Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska Baraniecka-Olszewska, Kamila 13

2 Visual Piety and Personal Religiosity in Greenland / Kaihrine Kjærgaard Kjærgaard, Kaihrine 31

3 "How pointless it is to fence in a sea": Personal Religiosity among Contemporary European Artists / Ruth Illman Illman, Ruth 61

4 Experiencing Religion in Folklorised Christianity / Katya Mihaylova Mihaylova, Katya 81

5 "Your own personal Buddha"? Contesting Individualism as the Main Feature of Modern Religious Experience: the Case of Buddhism in France / Lionel Obadia Obadia, Lionel 105

6 Artifacts of Belief: Holy Cards in Roman Catholic Culture / Leonard Norman Primiano Primiano, Leonard Norman 119

7 Sacrality Without Borders: Thoughts on Virtual Cult Sites / Krisztina Frauhammer Frauhammer, Krisztina 143

8 Crossing the Borders of the Sacred and the Profane: Holy Visions of a Clairvoyant from Hungary / Orsolya Gyöngyössy Gyöngyössy, Orsolya 153

9 Gifts from the Holy Spirit: Contemporary Song Composition and Performance in North-East Scottish Evangelicalism / Frances Wilkins Wilkins, Frances 161

10 Performatives of Faith: A Narrative Approach to Religious Experience / Titija Hovi Hovi, Titija 183

11 A Nineteenth-Century Peasant and Intra-Church Revivalistic Movements in Bohuslän, Sweden / Anders Gustavsson Gustavsson, Anders 203

12 Religious Feelings and their Value: Religious Psychology in Norway Anno 1817 / Arne Bugge Amundsen Amundsen, Arne Bugge 221.

ISBN:

9783643907271

3643907273

OCLC:

933274222

Publisher Number:

99968542191