Religious Individualisation : Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives / Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach, Martin Mulsow, Bernd-Christian Otto, Rahul Bjørn Parson, Jörg Rüpke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuchs, Martin, 1950- Editor.

Linkenbach, Antje, Editor.

Mulsow, Martin, Editor.

Otto, Bernd-Christian, Editor.

Parson, Rahul Bjørn, Editor.

Rüpke, Jörg, Editor.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Funder.

Language:

English

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1416)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

English.

Biography/History:

M. Fuchs, A. Linkenbach, M. Mulsow, B. Otto, J. Rüpke, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt and R. Parson, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Summary:

This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project 'Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective' (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods, in particular in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past. Contrary to standard theories of modernisation, which tend to regard religious individualisation as a specifically modern or early modern as well as an essentially Western or Christian phenomenon, the chapters reveal processes of religious individualisation in a large variety of non-Western and pre-modern scenarios. Furthermore, the volume challenges prevalent views that regard religions primarily as collective phenomena and provides nuanced perspectives on the appropriation of religious agency, the pluralisation of religious options, dynamics of de-traditionalisation and privatisation, the development of elaborated notions of the self, the facilitation of religious deviance, and on the notion of dividuality.

Contents:

Religious Individualisation

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Volume 1

General introduction

Part 1: Transcending selves

Introduction: Transcending Selves

Section 1.1: Relationships between selfhood and transcendence

'Vase of light': from the exceptional individuality to the individualisation process as influenced by Greek-Arabic cosmology in Albert the Great's Super Iohannem

Self-transcendence in Meister Eckhart

The inward sublime: Kant's aesthetics and the Protestant tradition

Transcendence and freedom: on the anthropological and cultural centrality of religion

Taking Job as an example. Kierkegaard: traces of religious individualization

Suifaction: typological reflections on the evolution of the self

Afterword: relationships between selfhood and transcendence

Section 1.2: The social lives of religious individualisation

'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house!' (Gen. 12:1): Schelling's Boehmian redefinition of idealism

Dining with the gods and the others: the banqueting tickets from Palmyra as expressions of religious individualisation

Self-affirmation, self-transcendence and the relationality of selves: the social embedment of individualisation in bhakti

Sufis, Jogis, and the question of religious difference: individualisation in early modern Punjab

Afterword: the social lives of religious individualisation

Part 2: The dividual self

Introduction: the dividual self

Section 2.1: Dividual socialities

The subject as totum potestativum in Albert the Great's OEuvre: cultural transfer and relational identity

Monism and dividualism in Meister Eckhart

The empathic subject and the question of dividuality

Simmel and the forms of in-dividuality

Afterword: dividual socialities

Section 2.2: Parting the self

Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry

The good citizen and the heterodox self: turning to Protestantism and Anabaptism in 16th-century Venice

Dividualisation and relational authorship: from the Huguenot République des lettres to practices of clandestine writing

Disunited identity. Kierkegaard: traces towards dividuality

Afterword: parting the self

Section 2.3: Porosity, corporeality and the divine

Paul's Letter to Philemon: a case study in individualisation, dividuation, and partibility in Imperial spatial contexts

Self as other: distanciation and reflexivity in ancient Greek divination

The swirl of worlds: possession, porosity and embodiment

'Greater love ...': Methodist missionaries, self-sacrifice and relational personhood

Challenging personhood: the subject and viewer of contemporary crucifixion iconography

Afterword: porosity, corporeality and the divine

Religious Individualisation Volume 2

Part 3: Conventions and contentions

Introduction: conventions and contentions

Section 3.1: Practices

Religious individualisation in China: a two-modal approach

Individuals in the Eleusinian Mysteries: choices and actions

Institutionalisation of religious individualisation: asceticism in antiquity and late antiquity and the rejection of slavery and social injustice

Lived religion and eucharistic piety on the Meuse and the Rhine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

Migrant precarity and religious individualisation

The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation

Afterword: practices

Section 3.2: Texts and narratives

'... quod nolo, illud facio' (Romans 7:20): institutionalising the unstable self

Individualisation, deindividualisation, and institutionalisation among the early Mahānubhāvs

Religious individualisation and collective bhakti: Sarala Dasa and Bhima Bhoi

Individualisation and democratisation of knowledge in Banārasīdās' Samayasāra Nāṭaka

Subjects of conversion in colonial central India

Many biographies - multiple individualities: the identities of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang

Jewish emancipation, religious individualisation, and metropolitan integration: a case study on Moses Mendelssohn and Moritz Lazarus

Afterword: texts and narratives

Part 4: Authorities in religious individualisation

Introduction: authorities in religious individualisation

Section 4.1: Between hegemony & heterogeneity

Subordinated religious specialism and individuation in the Graeco-Roman world

Religion and the limits of individualisation in ancient Athens: Andocides, Socrates, and the fair-breasted Phryne

Traveling with the Picatrix: cultural liminalities of science and magic

Singular individuals, conflicting authorities: Annie Besant and Mohandas Gandhi

Being Hindu in India: culture, religion, and the Gita Press (1950)

Individualised versus institutional religion: Is there a mediating position?

Constructing a genuine religious character: the impact of the asylum court on the Ahmadiyya community in Germany

Afterword: de- and neotraditionalisation

Section 4.2: Pluralisation

Religious plurality and individual authority in the Mahābhārata

Ritual objects and religious communication in lived ancient religion: multiplying religion

Institutionalisation of tradition and individualised lived Christian religion in Late Antiquity

Early modern erudition and religious individualisation: the case of Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662)

Islamic mystical responses to hegemonic orthodoxy: the subcontinental perspective

Afterword: pluralisation

Section 4.3: Walking the edges

Understanding 'prophecy': charisma, religious enthusiasm, and religious individualisation in the 17th century. A cross-cultural approach

Out of bounds, still in control: exclusion, religious individuation and individualisation during the later Middle Ages

The lonely antipope - or why we have difficulties classifying Pedro de Luna [Benedict XIII] as a religious individual

Varieties of spiritual individualisation in the theosophical movement: the United Lodge of theosophists India as climax of individualisation-processes within the theosophical movement

Individualisation in conformity: Keshab Chandra Sen and canons of the self

Afterword: walking the edges

Contributors

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ISBN:

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OCLC:

1135580980