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Book/Printed Material Dynamics of religion : past and present : proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Erfurt, August 23-29, 2015

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  • Dynamics of religion : past and present : proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Erfurt, August 23-29, 2015

Names

  • Bochinger, Christoph, 1959- editor.
  • Rüpke, Jörg, editor.
  • International Association for the History of Religions.

Created / Published

  • Berlin : De Gruyter, [2017]
  • ©2017

Contents

  • The dynamics of religions and cultural evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in contemporary China / Hubert Seiwert -- Religion and public space in contemporary Japan: Re-activation of the civilization of the axial age and the manifestation of State Shinto and Buddhism / Susume Shimazono -- The tactics of (in)visibility among religious communities in contemporary Europe / Kim Knott -- Religion intersecting de-nationalization and re-nationalization in post-apartheid South Africa / Gerald O. West -- Forms of religious communities in global society: tradition, invention, and transformation / Peter Beyer -- Subversive spirituality: political contributions of ancestral cosmologies decolonizing religious beliefs / Sylvia Marcos -- Religion and the historical imagination: esoteric tradition as poetic invention / Wouter J. Hanegraff -- Religion and life trajectory: Islamists against self and other / Abdulkader Tayob -- Angels, animals and religious change in antiquity and today / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus -- Gaining access to the radically unfamiliar: religion in modern times / Kalpana Ram -- 'Cloning minds': Religion between individuals and collectives / Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- Of yellow teaching and black faith: entangled knowledge cultures and the creation of religious traditions / Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz -- Global intellectual history and the dynamics of relgion / Martin Muslow -- Narrating, performing and feeling a "religion": on representations of Judaism / Cristiana Facchini.

Headings

  • -  Religion and culture
  • -  Cultural pluralism
  • -  Imperialism--Religious aspects
  • -  Established churches
  • -  Fuxi (Legendary character)
  • -  Shinto and state--Japan
  • -  Buddhism--Japan
  • -  Apartheid--South Africa--Religious aspects
  • -  Islamic fundamentalism
  • -  Judaism and culture

Notes

  • -  International conference proceedings.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (ix, 296 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BL65.C8

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020715435

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Bochinger, Christoph, Editor, and International Association For The History Of Religions. Dynamics of religion: past and present: proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Erfurt, August 23-29. editeds by Rüpke, Jörg [Berlin: De Gruyter, ©, 2017] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715435/.

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Bochinger, C. & International Association For The History Of Religions, Rüpke, J., ed. (2017) Dynamics of religion: past and present: proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Erfurt, August 23-29. [Berlin: De Gruyter, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715435/.

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Bochinger, Christoph, Editor, and International Association For The History Of Religions. Dynamics of religion: past and present: proceedings of the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Erfurt, August 23-29. ed by Rüpke, Jörg [Berlin: De Gruyter, ©, 2017] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715435/>.