Dynamics of religion : past and present : proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Erfurt, August 23-29, 2015 / edited by Christoph Bochinger and Jörg Rüpke ; in cooperation with Elisabeth Begemann.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bochinger, Christoph, 1959- editor.

Rüpke, Jörg, editor.

Conference Name:

IAHR World Congress (21st : 2015 : Erfurt, Germany)

Series:

Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; Bd. 67.

Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and culture.

Cultural pluralism.

Imperialism--Religious aspects.

Imperialism.

Established churches.

Fuxi (Legendary character).

Shinto and state--Japan.

Shinto and state.

Apartheid.

Japan.

Buddhism--Japan.

Buddhism.

Apartheid--South Africa--Religious aspects.

Islamic fundamentalism.

Judaism and culture.

South Africa.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]

Contents:

The dynamics of religions and cultural evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in contemporary China / Hubert Seiwert

Religion and public space in contemporary Japan: Re-activation of the civilization of the axial age and the manifestation of State Shinto and Buddhism / Susume Shimazono

The tactics of (in)visibility among religious communities in contemporary Europe / Kim Knott

Religion intersecting de-nationalization and re-nationalization in post-apartheid South Africa / Gerald O. West

Forms of religious communities in global society: tradition, invention, and transformation / Peter Beyer

Subversive spirituality: political contributions of ancestral cosmologies decolonizing religious beliefs / Sylvia Marcos

Religion and the historical imagination: esoteric tradition as poetic invention / Wouter J. Hanegraff

Religion and life trajectory: Islamists against self and other / Abdulkader Tayob

Angels, animals and religious change in antiquity and today / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus

Gaining access to the radically unfamiliar: religion in modern times / Kalpana Ram

'Cloning minds': Religion between individuals and collectives / Jeppe Sinding Jensen

Of yellow teaching and black faith: entangled knowledge cultures and the creation of religious traditions / Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz

Global intellectual history and the dynamics of relgion / Martin Muslow

Narrating, performing and feeling a "religion": on representations of Judaism / Cristiana Facchini.

Notes:

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110450927

3110450925

OCLC:

967963844

Publisher Number:

99970838773