Religion and Global Culture

New Terrain in the Study of Religion and the Work of Charles H. Long

AvJennifer I. M. Reid

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

Religion and Global Culture draws together the work of a group of historians of religion who are concerned with situating the contemporary study of religion within the cultural complexity of the modern world. The writing of each of the volume's contributors relates to the work of leading historian of religion Charles H. Long, who has identified religious meanings in the contacts and exchanges of the colonial and postcolonial periods. Together with Long, these scholars explore religious practices in a variety of globalized contexts; chapters consider such varied subjects as the rituals of African immigrant communities in the United States, the making of Mohawk sweet grass and black ash baskets, the religious experience of prisoners in the Nazi holding camp of Westerbork, and the regional repercussions of contemporary multi-national business. By locating religion in the conflicted and cooperative relationships of the colonial and postcolonial periods, Religion and Global Culture calls on scholars of religion to reconfigure their interpretive stances from the perspective of the material structures of the modern, globalized world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-02-10
Mått:151 x 214 x 15 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lexington Books
Antal sidor:212
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739108109

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Religion och tro inom Filosofi och religion

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Jennifer I. M. Reid received her Ph.D.from the University of Ottawa and teaches religion at the University of Maine at Farmington. She is the author of Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter: British and Mi'kmaq in Acadia, 1700-1867.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Asking the Question of the Origin of Religion in the Age of GlobalizationChapter 3 Religion, Globalization, and the UniversityChapter 4 Sacred Landscapes and Global Religion: Reflections on the Significance of Indigenous Religions for University CultureChapter 5 "Faire Place à une Race Métisse": Colonial Crisis and the Vision of Luis RielChapter 6 Mthunzini (A Place in the Shade): Religion and the Heat of GlobalizationChapter 7 Globalization and African Immigrant Religious CommunitiesChapter 8 Ogu's iron or Jesus' Irony: Who's Zooming Who in Diasporic Possession Cult ActivityChapter 9 The Future of Our World: Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Philosophies, and the Preservation of Mother EarthChapter 11 Crosscultural Religious Business: Cocacolonization, McDonaldization, Disneyization, Tupperization, and Other Local Dilemmas of Global SignificanceChapter 12 Indigenous People, Materialities, and Religion: Outline for a New Orientation to Religious Meaning