Religious Voices In Self Narratives
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Religious Voices In Self Narratives
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Author : Marjo Buitelaar
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-07-31
Religious Voices In Self Narratives written by Marjo Buitelaar and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-31 with Religion categories.
In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the question of how individuals appropriate religious traditions has become particularly relevant. In this volume, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians examine the presence of religious voices in narrative constructions of the self. The focus is on the multiple ways religious stories and practices feature in self-narratives about major life transitions. The contributions explore the ways in which such voices inform the accommodation and interpretation of these transitions. In addition to being inspired by Dan McAdams’ approach to life stories as ‘personal myths’ that inform us about the quests of individuals for a satisfactory balance between agency and communion, most of the contributors have found the theory of ‘the dialogical self’ developed by Hubert Hermans particularly useful. Thus the contributions explore the ways in which identity formation is shaped by internal dialogues between personal and collective voices in the context of the specific constellations of power in which these voices are embedded. The volume is divided into three parts addressing theoretical and methodological considerations, religious resources in narratives on life transitions, and religious positioning in diaspora.
Religious Voices In Self Narratives
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Author : Marjo Buitelaar
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-07-31
Religious Voices In Self Narratives written by Marjo Buitelaar and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-31 with Religion categories.
In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the question of how individuals appropriate religious traditions has become particularly relevant. This title examines the presence of religious voices in narrative constructions of the self.
Religious Stories We Live By
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Author : R. Ruard Ganzevoort
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Religious Stories We Live By written by R. Ruard Ganzevoort and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Religion categories.
Stories have always been important in religion, but systematic explorations of the narrative dimensions of religion are more recent and interdisciplinary explorations of narrative approaches in theology and religious studies are scarce. Religious Stories We Live By paves the ground for these much needed interdisciplinary conversations. It first offers philosophical, psychological, and epistemological reflections on the importance of narrative approaches in the study of religion. The subsequent sections contain case studies and disciplinary overviews of narrative perspectives in biblical, empirical, systematic, and historical approaches in theology and religious studies. Combined, the contributions showcase the potential of narrative perspectives in bridging theology and religious studies, as well as descriptive and normative approaches. Narrative perspectives offer a fruitful common ground for the study of religion. Contributors include Angela Berlis, Marjo Buitelaar, James Day, Maaike de Haardt, Marieke den Braber, Luco van den Brom, Marjet Derks, Toke Elshof, Dorothea Erbele Küster, John Exalto, Ruard Ganzevoort, Joep van Gennip, Annelies van Heijst, Chris Hermans, Liesbeth Hoeven, Anne-Marie Korte, Edwin Koster, Marit Monteiro, Michael Scherer-Rath, Klaas Spronk, Piet Verschuren, Wim Weren, and Willien van Wieringen.
Entangled Voices
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Author : Frederick J. Ruf
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-01-02
Entangled Voices written by Frederick J. Ruf and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-02 with Religion categories.
In this book, Ruf tries to understand how the concepts of "voice" and "genre" function in texts, especially religious texts. To this end, he joins literary theorists in the discussion about "narrative." Ruf rejects the idea of genre as a fixed historical form that serves as a template for readers and writers; instead, he suggests that we imagine different genres, whether narrative, lyric, or dramatic, as the expression of different voices. Each voice, he asserts, possesses different key qualities: embodiment, sociality, contextuality, and opacity in the dramatic voice; intimacy, limitation, urgency in lyric; and a "magisterial" quality of comprehensiveness and cohesiveness in narrative. These voices are models for our selves, composing an unruly and unstable multiplicity of selves. Ruf applies his theory of "voice" and "genre" to five texts: Dineson's Out of Africa, Donne's Holy Sonnets, Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach, and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Through these literary works, he discerns the detailed ways in which a text constructs a voice and, in the process, a self. More importantly, Ruf demonstrates that this process is a religious one, fulfilling the function that religions traditionally assume: that of defining the self and its world.
Former Muslims In Europe
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Author : Maria Vliek
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-21
Former Muslims In Europe written by Maria Vliek and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-21 with Religion categories.
Within contemporary Western European academic, media, and socio-political spheres, Muslims are predominantly seen through the lens of increased religiosity. This religiosity is often seen as problematic, especially in the context of securitised discourses of Islamist terrorism. Yet, there are clear indications that a growing number of people who grew up in Muslim families no longer subscribe to Islam or call themselves religious at all. Drawing on fieldwork in the UK and the Netherlands, this study examines the experiences of people moving out of Islam. It rigorously questions the antagonistic nature of the debate between ‘the religious’ and ‘the secular’, or who is in and who is out, and argues for recognition of the ambiguity that most of us live in. Revealing many complex forms of moving out, this study adds much-needed nuance to understandings of secularity and Muslim identities in Europe.
Language And Self Transformation
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Author : Peter G. Stromberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-06-26
Language And Self Transformation written by Peter G. Stromberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Using the Christian conversion narrative as a primary example, this book examines how people deal with emotional conflict through language.
Still The Small Voice
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Author : Tom Mould
language : en
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Still The Small Voice written by Tom Mould and has been published by Utah State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with Religion categories.
Memorates—personal experience narratives of encounters with the supernatural—that recount individuals’ personal revelations, primarily through the Holy Ghost, are a pervasive aspect of the communal religious experience of Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In accordance with current emphases in folklore studies on narrative and belief, Tom Mould uses ethnographic research and an emic approach that honors the belief systems under study to analyze how people within Mormon communities frame and interpret their experiences with the divine through the narratives they share. In doing so, he provides a significant new ethnographic interpretation of Mormon culture and belief and also applies his findings directly to broader scholarly folklore discourse on performance, genre, personal experience narrative, belief, and oral versus written traditions.
Religion Migration And Conflict
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Author : Carl Sterkens
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2015
Religion Migration And Conflict written by Carl Sterkens and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Social Science categories.
In various parts of the world, the act of migration can result in an increase of religious and cultural plurality. However, can this also result in more interreligious conflict? And, if so, which factors stimulate and which inhibit conflict? These and other related questions are addressed in this volume. (Series: Nijmegen Studies in Development and Cultural Change [NICCOS] - Vol. 51) [Subject: Sociology, Migration Studies, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies]
Pilgrim Voices
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Author : Simon Coleman
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2003
Pilgrim Voices written by Simon Coleman and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
Research on pilgrimage has traditionally fallen across a series of academic disciplines - anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, history and theology. To date, relatively little work has been devoted to the issue of pilgrimage as writing and specifically as a form of travel-writing. The aim of the interdisciplinary essays gathered here is to examine the relations of Christian pilgrimage to the numerous narratives, which it generates and upon which it depends. Authors reveal not only the tensions between oral and written accounts but also the frequent ambiguities of journeys - the possibilities of shifts between secular and sacred forms and accounts of travel. Above all, the papers reveal the self-generating and multiple-authored characteristics of pilgrimage narrative: stories of past pilgrimage experience generate future stories and even future journeys. Simon Coleman moved to Sussex University in 2004, having spent 11 years at Durham University as Lecturer and then Reader in Anthropology, and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health. John Elsner is Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
This Is Our Belief Around Here
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Author : Haryani Saptaningtyas
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
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This Is Our Belief Around Here written by Haryani Saptaningtyas and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
This study analyzes ritual and domestic water use in a rural and an urban community in West Java, Indonesia. This is an area where water quantity and quality is a problem. The focus is on people who live at the edge of Citarum River, one of the most polluted rivers in the world. Most people there are Muslim. What is the relation between people's perceptions of pollution (of Upper Citarum River) and purification (in Islamic teaching) and their practices of water use. It studies the perceptions of pollution and purification of Sundanese Muslims in West Java and the effects of those perceptions on practices of domestic and ritual water use. Making a discourse analysis of local narratives the study argues that most people don't see pollution as problematic. For them it has become normal. They make a distinction between clean water (in medical sense) and pure water (in ritual sense).