Religion Tradition And Ideology
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Author | : R Champakalakshmi |
Publisher | : OUP India |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198070597 |
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This volume discusses the multiple facets, dominant characteristics, and historical trajectories of religious traditions in pre-colonial south India. Examining the linkages between religion and politics, it investigates alternative vernacular traditions, rituals and practices, temple architecture, iconography, and other representational art forms.
Author | : Timothy Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2003-10-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195347153 |
Download The Ideology of Religious Studies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In recent years there has been an intensifying debate within the religious studies community about the validity of religion as an analytical category. In this book Fitzgerald sides with those who argue that the concept of religion itself should be abandoned. On the basis of his own research in India and Japan, and through a detailed analysis of the use of religion in a wide range of scholarly texts, the author maintains that the comparative study of religion is really a form of liberal ecumenical theology. By pretending to be a science, religion significantly distorts socio-cultural analysis. He suggest, however, that religious studies can be re-represented in a way which opens up new and productive theoretical connections with anthropology and cultural and literary studies.
Author | : Steven Engler |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110901404 |
Download Historicizing "Tradition" in the Study of Religion Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This collection of essays analyzes ‛tradition’ as a category in the historical and comparative study of religion. The book questions the common assumption that tradition is simply the “passing down” or imitation of prior practices and discourses. It begins from the premise that many traditions are, at least in part, social fabrications, often deliberately serving particular ideological ends. Individual chapters examine a wide variety of historical periods and religions (Congolese, Buddhist, Christian, Confucian, Cree, Esoteric, Hawaiian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, New Religious Movement, and Shinto). Different sections of the book consider tradition's relation to three sets of issues: legitimation and authority; agency and identity; modernity and the West.
Author | : Beate Pongratz-Leisten |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2015-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1614514267 |
Download Religion and Ideology in Assyria Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Addressing the relationship between religion and ideology, and drawing on a range of literary, ritual, and visual sources, this book reconstructs the cultural discourse of Assyria from the third through the first millennium BCE. Ideology is delineated here as a subdiscourse of religion rather than as an independent category, anchoring it firmly within the religious world view. Tracing Assur's cultural interaction with the south on the one hand, and with the Syro-Anatolian horizon on the other, this volume articulates a "northern" cultural discourse that, even while interacting with southern Mesopotamian tradition, managed to maintain its own identity. It also follows the development of tropes and iconic images from the first city state of Uruk and their mouvance between myth, image, and royal inscription, historiography and myth, and myth and ritual, suggesting that, with the help of scholars, key royal figures were responsible for introducing new directions for the ideological discourse and for promoting new forms of historiography.
Author | : Juan L. Segundo |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2006-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1597528153 |
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'Faith and Ideologies' continues to develop the key concepts that Segundo had previously analyzed in 'The Liberation of Theology'. He does this with great incisiveness and profundity both on the anthropological and the theological levels, while dialoguing with such partners as Bateson, Pannenberg, and Tracy in the West and Marx, Machovec, and Lukacs in the East. The book . . . is must reading for those exploring the frontiers of contemporary theology. --Alfred T. Hennelly author of 'Theologies in Conflict: The Challenge of Juan Luis Segundo' Juan Luis Segundo, a Jesuit theologian from Uruguay, is author of Liberation of Theology, Liberation of Dogma, and The Sacraments Today.
Author | : Robert Bocock |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Ideology |
ISBN | : 9780719018404 |
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Author | : Ninian Smart |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John E. Cort |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2001-03-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780198030379 |
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"There is no doubt that the wealth of new data and ideas offered in this exquisite book provides the deepest insights yet into the contemporary religious world of Jain laity. It will serve for some time as a paradigmatic monograph for future empirical studies of Jain religious life." --Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies "Jains in the World is a significant and welcome ethnography of contemporary Jains in western India by the most prominent scholar of Jainism in North America. This book is a must for scholars of South Asian religions and will provide scholars of Hindu traditions fine grounding both in a central dialectic of Jain thought and in contemporary Jain praxis." --International Journal of Hindu Studies "A valuable addition to the literature on Jainism as a living faith. Since it has the additional merits of being clearly written, attractively illustrated, and free of unnecessary theoretical baggage, it should serve as a good introduction to this tradition for college students." --Journal of the American Oriental Society "A must-read for understanding, by and large, the ritual world of the Jains. He has succeeded in proving that the concept of well-being is as central to the Jains' moral universe as their more entrenched pursuit of the goal of liberation of soul from karmic bondage."--History of Religions "An essential read for students and scholars of Jainism. . . . it identifies and defines a realm of value in Jainism strongly alluded to by recent scholarship, but which, until now, had not been explicitly stated. For this reason Jains in the World will doubtless prove to be a fundamental turning point in the development of Jaina studies."-- The Journal of Religion This book presents a detailed fieldwork-based study of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism. Drawing on field research in northern Gujarat and on the study of both ancient Sanskrit and Prakrit and modern vernacular Jain religious literature, John Cort provides a rounded portrait of the religion as it is practiced today.
Author | : James G. Crossley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2018-01-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351142747 |
Download Writing History, Constructing Religion Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Writing History, Constructing Religion presents a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of debates among historians, scholars of religion and cultural theorists over the 'nature' of history to the study of religion. The distinguished authors discuss issues related to definitions of history, postmodernism, critical theory, and the impact on the study and analysis of religious traditions; exploring the application of writing 'history from below', discussions of 'truth' and 'objectivity' as opposed to power and ideology, crises of representation, and the place of theory in the 'historicized' study of religion(s). Addressing conceptual debates in a wide range of historical and empirical contexts, the authors critically engage with issues including religious nationalism, Nazism, Islam and the West, secularism, religion in post-Communist Russia, ethnicity and post modernity. This book constitutes a significant step towards the self-reflexive and interdisciplinary study of religions in history.
Author | : Radha Champakalakshmi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Tradition, Dissent and Ideology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Organized around the themes of tradition, dissent, and ideology, which are in many ways central to Romila Thapar's concerns, this collection of essays covers a time span from the Vedic age to the Nehruvian era of Indian history and ranges across cultural regions from ancient Mesopotamia to Sri Lanka.