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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lundskow, George N., 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

Certain timeless questions rise and fall through changing social conditions, scientific advances, and cultural variation - who am I? How should I live? What happens when I die? In modern society, traditions no longer integrate the individual into a larger spiritual community, and so movements have risen to address the crisis of meaning in a rapidly changing world. This collection of essays, while considering variables of work, class, race, and gender, theoretically and empirically examines how diverse groups are trying to restore a sense of meaning through religious innovation. critical inquiry into recent developments in religion and the larger quest for meaning. The second section examines grass roots emancipation movements, which seek an expanded role for the individual in both belief and practice. The chapters focus on Christianity and Neopaganism and how each utilizes culture as an effect of belief. and norms, anti-Semitism, new evangelism, Neopaganism on the internet, Max Horkheimer's critical theory of religion, Christian speed/thrash metal music, Islamic fundamentalism, modernity and the role of women, French tourist destination Rocamadour's competition between the Catholic shrine and secular attractions, developments within the Polish Roman Catholic Church, the Finnish Satanism scare of 1999, and Islam and politics in Turkey. A bibliography completes each essay.

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 / Mahrug 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 conssict 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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-0945-4