Hopkins / Lorentzen / Mendieta Religions/Globalizations

Theories and Cases
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8040-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

A collection of essays demonstrating the ways diverse religious rituals, symbols, ethics and ideologies perform as primary planks in the construction of the public realm, with particular focus on peripheral nations and politicized spiritualities of resist

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hopkins, Dwight N.

Lorentzen, Lois Ann

Mendieta, Eduardo

Batstone, David

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dussel, Enrique

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One / Theoretical Frameworks

The Religion of Globalization / Dwight N. Hopkins

The Sociohistorical Meaning of Liberation Theology (Reflections about Its Origin and World Context) / Enrique Dussel

Society’s Religion: The Rise of Social Theory, Globalization, and the Invention of Religion / Eduardo Mendieta

The Global Rise of Religious Nationalism / Mark Juergensmeyer

Who Is an Indian? Religion, Globalization, and Chiapas / Lois Ann Lorentzen

Part Two / Case Studies

The African Transformation of Christianity: Comparative Reflections on Ethnicity and Religious Mobilization in Africa / Lamin Sanneh

Macroeconomy, Apartheid, & Rituals of Healing in an African Indigenous Church / Linda E. Thomas

(In)Corporating Threshold Art: Kolam Competitions, Patronage, and Colage / Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan

Visa Trouble: Cambodian American Christians and Their Defense of Multiple Citizenship / Kathryn Poethig

Televangelism: Local and Global Dimensions / Berit Bretthauer

Dancing to a Different Beat: Emerging Spiritualities in the Network Society / David Batstone

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dwight N. Hopkins is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School.Lois Ann Lorentzen is Professor of Social Ethics in the department of theology and religious studies at the University of San Francisco.Eduardo Mendieta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.David Batstone is Associate Professor of Social Ethics in the department of theology and religious studies at the University of San Francisco.