Relocating The Sacred
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Relocating The Sacred African Divinities And Brazilian Cultural Hybridities
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Author : Niyi Afolabi
language : en
Publisher: Suny Series, Afro-Latinx Futur
Release Date : 2023-05-02
Relocating The Sacred African Divinities And Brazilian Cultural Hybridities written by Niyi Afolabi and has been published by Suny Series, Afro-Latinx Futur this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.
Religions Of Modernity
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Author : Stef Aupers
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-07-07
Religions Of Modernity written by Stef Aupers and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-07 with Religion categories.
Religions of Modernity' challenges the social-scientific orthodoxy that modernization inevitably erodes the sacred, and documents - in rich empirical detail - how modernity spawns its own religious meanings by relocating the sacred to the self and the domain of digital technology.
Relocating The Sacred
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Author : Niyi Afolabi
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2022-11-01
Relocating The Sacred written by Niyi Afolabi and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although Brazil is home to the largest African diaspora, the religions of its African descendants have often been syncretized and submerged, first under the force of colonialism and enslavement and later under the spurious banner of a harmonious national Brazilian character. Relocating the Sacred argues that these religions nevertheless have been preserved and manifested in a strategic corpus of shifting masks and masquerades of Afro-Brazilian identity. Following the re-Africanization process and black consciousness movement of the 1970s to 1990s, Afro-Brazilians have questioned racial democracy, seeing how its claim to harmony actually dispossesses them of political power. By embracing African deities as a source of creative inspiration and resistance, Afro-Brazilians have appropriated syncretism as a means of not only popularizing African culture but also decolonizing themselves from the past shame of slavery. This book maps the role of African heritage in—and relocation of the sacred to—three sites of Brazilian cultural production: ritual altars, literature, and carnival culture.
Faith In The Familiar
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Author : Kim Knibbe
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-06-20
Faith In The Familiar written by Kim Knibbe and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-20 with Religion categories.
Faith in the Familiar is an ethnography of religious change in the Netherlands, a country that has moved from strongly pillarized to strongly secularist in the space of fifty years. This book shows how people look back on this, but also how Catholic rituals continue to play a role in the reproduction of place. Furthermore, it shows how forms of spiritualism and new age have become part of a pluralistic local religious landscape, and are used to create new ways of relating to religious authority and to reshape personal relationships. Situating itself within general theories of religious change in Western Europe, it offers a contribution to this discussion from an angle that is often neglected, focusing on locality, rather than on globalization; on what happens to ‘old’ religion, rather than on new religious trends, on popular forms of ‘spirituality’ rather than on middle class and highbrow spirituality.
Relocating Consciousness
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Author : Daphne M. Grace
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Relocating Consciousness written by Daphne M. Grace and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with History categories.
This book deals directly with issues of consciousness within works of postcolonial and diasporic writers. It discusses fiction, autobiography and theory to re-formulate a “writing of consciousness”, addressing contemporary cultural theory related to a wide range of dynamic writers and ground-breaking novels. A critical analysis of literature contextualises consciousness (understood here as the source of language and human creativity), and explores ways in which consciousness is involved in the creative process. Tackling the controversial nature of consciousness itself, the book argues that consciousness must be understood in its philosophical and social contexts. The idea of relocating consciousness calls for a new aesthetics and ethics of living in the diasporic world where we are all to some extent “migrant”. The book explores notions of consciousness as alternative narrative structures to society, while expanding contemporary postcolonial theory beyond the limited dimension of power-based-on-violence to a more visionary exploration of experience based on consciousness as unity-in-diversity. Themes explored include sacred experience as empowerment; trauma, terror and the impact of consciousness; cosmopolitanism and globalisation; and the literature of human survival. Written in a lively and accessible manner the book will appeal to all readers who enjoy being on the cutting-edge of contemporary world literature.
New Age Spirituality
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Author : Steven J. Sutcliffe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-11
New Age Spirituality written by Steven J. Sutcliffe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with Religion categories.
New Age and holistic beliefs and practices - sometimes called the "new spirituality" - are widely distributed across modern global society. The fluid and popular nature of new age makes these movements a very challenging field to understand using traditional models of religious analysis. Rather than treating new age as an exotic specimen on the margins of 'proper' religion, "New Age Spirituality" examines these movements as a form of everyday or lived religion. The book brings together an international range of scholars to explore the key issues: insight, healing, divination, meditation, gnosis, extraordinary experiences, and interactions with gods, spirits and superhuman powers. Combining discussion of contemporary beliefs and practices with cutting-edge theoretical analysis, the book repositions new age spirituality at the forefront of the contemporary study of religion.
Sacred Space
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Author : Marie Isaacs
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1992-05-01
Sacred Space written by Marie Isaacs and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-05-01 with Religion categories.
The author of Hebrews is not preoccupied with the concepts of the Hellenistic philosophers but with the ideas of the ancient world is frequently conveyed by the notion of 'sacred space', which the worshipper wishes to approach in order to gain access to the deity. Standing as he does within the religious tradition of Judaism, the author of Hebrews inherited notions of sacred space whereby it was identified with the land, Jerusalem, Zion and the sanctuary. He shares priestly concern, so Isaacs argues, to guard the sacred, to protect it from the profane, and to regulate the means whereby the worshipper can approach the holy.
Workplace Spirituality
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Author : Yochanan Altman
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-01-19
Workplace Spirituality written by Yochanan Altman and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-19 with Business & Economics categories.
Workplace spirituality is an emerging field of study and practice and this book asks the questions: Where have we been in the last ten years as a field and where should we be headed in the next ten years? The editors asked these questions of thought leaders from around the globe, leaders who represent different sectors, faith traditions, worldviews and organizational functions. This volume represents the best of current thinking about the state of the field of workplace spirituality and of what the future holds. There are four themes: (1) management themes such as leadership, ethics, change management, and diversity; (2) workplace spirituality in sectors such as health and wellbeing, policing and creative industries, (3) key issues that are emerging, such as self-spirituality, mindfulness, storytelling and the importance of nature, and (4) cutting edge epistemologies and methodologies including indigenous studies, relational ontology, ethnography, and psychodynamics. These articles were chosen to provoke new thinking, new research, and new practice in the field of workplace spirituality, with the goal of helping the field mature in the next decade.
Anthropological Perspectives On The Religious Uses Of Mobile Apps
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Author : Jacqueline H. Fewkes
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-10-10
Anthropological Perspectives On The Religious Uses Of Mobile Apps written by Jacqueline H. Fewkes and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-10 with Religion categories.
This edited volume deploys digital ethnography in varied contexts to explore the cultural roles of mobile apps that focus on religious practice and communities, as well as those used for religious purposes (whether or not they were originally developed for that purpose). Combining analyses of local contexts with insights and methods from the global subfield of digital anthropology, the contributors here recognize the complex ways that in-app and on-ground worlds interact in a wide range of communities and traditions. While some of the case studies emphasize the cultural significance of use in local contexts and relationships to pre-existing knowledge networks and/or non-digital relationships of power, others explore the globalizing and democratizing influences of mobile apps as communication technologies. From Catholic confession apps to Jewish Kaddish assistance apps and Muslim halal food apps, readers will see how religious-themed mobile apps create complex sites for potential new forms of religious expression, worship, discussion, and practices.
Sociology Of Religion
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Author : Andrew Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Release Date : 2011
Sociology Of Religion written by Andrew Dawson and has been published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Religion categories.
Andrew Dawson outlines how sociologists approach the subject of religion and introduces sociological research methods, before highlighting some of the key areas studied by sociology of religion such as the rise of fundamentalism, gender issues and the debate about secularisation.