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The Occult Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by later generations of thinkers and practitioners. Penned by specialists in the field, this volume examines important themes and figures pertaining to this occult amalgam and its resonance into the twentieth century and beyond. Global guises of the occult, ranging from the Americas and Europe to India, are variously addressed, with special attention to the crucial role of mesmerism and the origins of modern yoga.
Dynamics of Religion
Religious ideas, practices, discourses, institutions, and social expressions are in constant flux. This volume addresses the internal and external dynamics, interactions between individuals, religious communities, and local as well as global society. The contributions concentrate on four areas: 1. Contemporary religion in the public sphere: The Tactics of (In)visibility among Religious Communities in Europe; Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa; 2. Religious transformations: Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society; Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies and the Decolonization of Religious Beliefs; Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention; 3. Focus on the individual: Religion and Life Trajectories of Islamists; Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today; Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar in Today’s Religion; Religion between Individuals and Collectives; 4. Narrating religion: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religions in Mongolia and Europe; Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion; On Representing Judaism.
Keywords in Chinese Culture
Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of keywords: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary and philosophical discourse. Tracing the origins, development, polysemy, and usages of keywords is one of the best ways to chart cultural and historical changes. This volume analyzes some of these keywords from different disciplinary and temporal perspectives, offering a new integrative study of their semantic richness, development trajectory, and distinct usages in Chinese culture. The authors of the volume explore different keywords and focus on different periods and genres, ranging from philosophical and historical texts of the Warring States period (453-V221 BCE) to late imperial (ca....
Supernatural Entertainments
In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the...
Maria Theresa
A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule Maria Theresa (1717–1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a far-flung realm composed of diverse ethnicities and languages, beset on all sides by enemies and rivals. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides the definitive biography of Maria Theresa, situating this exceptional empress within her time while dispelling the myths surrounding her. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Stollberg-Rilinger examines all facets of eighteenth-century society, from piety and patronage to sexuality and childc...
Von der Dämonologie zum Unbewussten
As the science of man, anthropology was among the most exciting disciplines during the period of intense change from the early modern era to modernity. Where demons had once wielded their power, after 1800, it was now the unlimited shoals of the subconscious that were disseminated. Or did they actually stay right next to each other and within one another?
Okkultismus im Gehäuse
„Okkultismus im Gehäuse" untersucht die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit dem Paranormalen und ihre Institutionen im 20. Jahrhundert. Wo waren die Orte einer parapsychologischen Wissensproduktion? Welche Formen, Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der Institutionalisierung gab es? Ausgehend von einem breiten Verständnis von Institutionalisierung werden universitäre und außeruniversitäre Einrichtungen sowie erfolgreiche wie gescheiterte Versuche von Akademisierung untersucht. Weiterhin kommen organisierte Gegenbewegungen, praktische Anwendungsfelder, populärkulturelle Verwertungen sowie persönliche Erfahrungen in den Blick. Dargestellt werden die Entwicklungen anhand von Fallbespielen aus Deutschland (BRD und DDR), Frankreich, Großbritannien, Russland, Ungarn sowie den Niederlanden und den USA. Die Beiträge zeigen, dass die Frage um Ort und „Gehäuse" der Parapsychologie permanenten Aushandlungen unterworfen war. Die Geschichte des Fachs beleuchtet so beispielhaft die Entwicklung nicht-hegemonialer Wissensbestände sowie grundsätzliche Prozesse von Disziplinbildung und Institutionalisierung.
Die Gesellschaft der Außerirdischen
Ist die Menschheit allein im Universum? Gibt es eine Chance, jenseits der Erde auf fremde Intelligenzen zu stoßen? Und was würde ein solcher Kontakt für die Zukunft der Menschheit bedeuten? Dies sind die Fragen, die im Mittelpunkt der neuesten sozialwissenschaftlichen Subdisziplin stehen, der Exosoziologie. Das Buch liefert auch international die erste systematischeEinführung in das Fachgebiet, das momentan an der Schnittstelle zwischen Zukunftsforschung, Soziologie der Fremdheit und Interspezies-Kommunikation entsteht. Ausgehend von etablierten sozialwissenschaftlichen Methoden und Theorien wird eine Perspektive für eine über die Erde hinausweisende transhumane Soziologie des 21. Jahr...
Mediality on Trial
This volume addresses controversies connected to the testing of the capacities and potentials of mediums. Today we commonly associate the term "medium" with the technical communication between transmitters and receivers. Yet this term likewise applies to those who cooperate with agencies that exceed the presumed domain of the material world. Insofar as one presumes a division between distinctly opposed categories of religion and the secular, technical media tend to be associated with the secular and human (trance) mediums tend to be associated with religion after 1900. This volume concerns the ways in which the term medium still marks an overlapping of – and thus problematizes – the afor...
Brokenness and Reconciliation
Too often we see reality in black and white, overlooking nuances that require the discernment of tensions between the brokenness of our world and our desires for reconciliation. Yet the gap between wounding words and actions and the hope for acts of reconciliation can lead to even more violence and despair. The authors of this volume explore these tensions and the valences of ‘brokenness’ and ‘reconciliation’ in Paul Tillich’s thought. Together, they contribute to a richer understanding of the thought of the German American theologian and philosopher, his commitments, and the constructive interpretations his work can induce for us today. Think of the ruptures and efforts of dialogu...
