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Mapping the Academic Debate
This volume maps the international academic debate on secularity. It places seminal contributions from within 'Western' academia alongside less well-known texts from various parts of the world; in several cases this is the first time that they have been translated into English. The volume demonstrates that the academic debate on secularity was and is a global debate, with contributions from many regions. The collected texts relate to each other either directly or indirectly by referring to similar arguments - whether reinforcing or criticising them - and thus create a discourse. When speaking of global secularity, we therefore do not insinuate a uniform 'world secularity' resulting from the ...
Choice and Morality in Anthropological Perspective
This book explores choice behavior as constrained by culture, biology, and psychoanalytic processes in a variety of ethnographic contexts in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Africa--the arena in which the controversy between Derek Freeman and anthropologist Margaret Mead's ideas of culture first developed. It also examines the interface between a nomothetic anthropology and a hermeneutic, idiographic anthropology, raising the critical question as to how ethnographic "knowledge" of another culture is achieved and transmitted to others. Freeman rejects an exclusive reliance on either culture or biology as key to explaining human behavior, proposing instead an interactionist paradigm. Fundamental t...
Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring
Building on the rich scholarly legacy of Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish Turkologist and diplomat, the fourteen contributions by sixteen authors representing a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences provide an insight into ongoing research trends in Uyghur and Xinjiang Studies. In one way or other all the chapters explore how new research in the fields of history, linguistics, anthropology and folklore can contribute to our understanding of Xinjiang’s past and present, simultaneously pointing to those social and knowledge practices that Uyghurs today can claim as part of their traditions in order to reproduce and perpetuate their cultural identity. Contributors include: Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Rahile Dawut, Arienne Dwyer, Fredrik Fällman, Chris Hann, Dilmurat Mahmut, Takahiro Onuma, Alexandre Papas, Eric Schluessel, Birgit Schlyter, Joanne Smith Finley, Rune Steenberg Jun Sugawara, Äsäd Sulaiman, Abdurishid Yakup, Thierry Zarcone.
Delusional States
Offers a pioneering study of state-making, religion, and development in contemporary Pakistan and its northern frontier.
Rationalisierung und säkulare Gesellschaft
Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten Aufsätze sind durch eine stringent eingenommene kulturanthropologische und wissenssoziologische Perspektive verbunden. Demnach ist Religion – neben dem Common sense, der Kunst, der Philosophie oder der Wissenschaft – eine von vielen Facetten des menschlichen Lebens und kann als Prozess betrachtet wie auch historisch-reflexiv thematisiert werden. Wie die Umwelt des Menschen sich fortwährend wandelt, so verändern sich auch Form und Stellenwert von Religion. Dies zeigt ein Blick in die europäische, aber auch in die indische Religionsgeschichte, wobei die Beschäftigung mit Indien dabei hilft, einen Eurozentrismus zu korrigieren. Neben den ausführlich behandelten klassischen Autoren Durkheim, Weber, Geertz und Bourdieu, finden auch Marx, Otto, Wittgenstein, Luckmann, Berger, Gandhi und Madan Berücksichtigung.
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The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion
Reflecting the very latest developments in the field, the New Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of religion with a clear emphasis on comparative and historical approaches. Covers major debates in secularization theory, rational choice theory, feminism and the body Takes a multidisciplinary approach, covering history, sociology, anthropology, and religious studies International in its scope, covering American exceptionalism, Native American spirituality, and China, Europe, and Southeast Asia Offers discussions on the latest developments, including "megachurches", spirituality, post-secular society and globalization
Religious Internationals in the Modern World
Tracing the emergence of 'Religious Internationals' as a distinctive new phenomenon in world history, this book transforms our understanding of the role of religion in our modern world. Through in-depth studies comparing the experiences of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews and Muslims, leading experts shed new light on 'global civil society'.
