Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change

✍ Scribed by Luther H. Martin (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 472
• Series: Religion and Society
• Edition: Reprint 2011 ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Historical models
Gods’ statues as a tool of Assyrian political policy: Esarhaddon’s return of Marduk to Babylon
Religious projection: A Hellenistic instance
Mani versus Mazdak: The prophet and his king in pre-Islamic Iran
Religious transformations and socio-political change: A western eurocentric paradigm?
Eastern Europe
The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture
Personal spiritual orientations and religiousness in (former) Soviet society
John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev: The process of globalization in multidimensional comparison
The analogy of the proportionalitas: The coherence between sociopolitical development and the development of religion in the new socio-cultural reality of Czechoslovakia
National history, culture and the process of religious change
Religion and revolution: A Hungarian pilgrimage in Rumania
Muslim fundamentalism in Soviet Central Asia: A social perspective
The Muslims of Poland: A religious minority in transition
Delusion and illusion, false hopes and failed dreams: Religion, the churches and East Germany’s 1989 “November revolution”
Theology of liberation and the Protestant monastery of Loccum in Germany
Opposition within affinity between religion and politics with reference to Golden Age Denmark and Brazil
Latin America
Religious transformations and social change in Latin America
In the beginning there were the Canaries ...: The forgotten purgatory en route to the new world
Missionary activity in Latin America: Confession manuals and indigenous eroticism
Iconography, inter subjectivity, and anthropological experience: A Toba shamanic tree
Political culture, religious culture and sacrifice
Theoretical and methodological implications
Theories on tradition and change in sociology, anthropology, history, and the history of religions
Method, theory, and the subject matter
What sort of “reality” is religion?
The symbolics of power discourse among contemporary religious groups in West Africa
Religious studies as a saving grace? From Goodenough to South Africa
Conclusion
Methodological conceits and theoretical opportunities: Reflections on the level of analysis appropriate for explaining socio- cultural phenomena
List of contributors
Index