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Religious transformations and socio-political change : Eastern Europe and Latin America / edited by Luther Martin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ; 33.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 457 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110884203
  • 3110884208
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religious transformations and socio-political change.DDC classification:
  • 291.1/77 20
LOC classification:
  • BL980.E852 R45 1993eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 89.41
  • BE 1600
  • BE 2240
  • MG 80270
  • MI 70270
  • MS 6550
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 16
  • 63
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Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Historical models -- Gods� statues as a tool of Assyrian political policy: Esarhaddon�s return of Marduk to Babylon -- Religious projection: A Hellenistic instance -- Mani versus Mazdak: The prophet and his king in pre-Islamic Iran -- Religious transformations and socio-political change: A western eurocentric paradigm? -- Eastern Europe -- The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture -- Personal spiritual orientations and religiousness in (former) Soviet society
John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev: The process of globalization in multidimensional comparisonThe analogy of the proportionalitas: The coherence between sociopolitical development and the development of religion in the new socio-cultural reality of Czechoslovakia -- National history, culture and the process of religious change -- Religion and revolution: A Hungarian pilgrimage in Rumania -- Muslim fundamentalism in Soviet Central Asia: A social perspective -- The Muslims of Poland: A religious minority in transition
Delusion and illusion, false hopes and failed dreams: Religion, the churches and East Germany�s 1989 “November revolution�Theology of liberation and the Protestant monastery of Loccum in Germany -- Opposition within affinity between religion and politics with reference to Golden Age Denmark and Brazil -- Latin America -- Religious transformations and social change in Latin America -- In the beginning there were the Canaries ... : The forgotten purgatory en route to the new world -- Missionary activity in Latin America: Confession manuals and indigenous eroticism
Iconography, inter subjectivity, and anthropological experience: A Toba shamanic treePolitical culture, religious culture and sacrifice -- Theoretical and methodological implications -- Theories on tradition and change in sociology, anthropology, history, and the history of religions -- Method, theory, and the subject matter -- What sort of “reality� is religion? -- The symbolics of power discourse among contemporary religious groups in West Africa -- Religious studies as a saving grace? From Goodenough to South Africa -- Conclusion
Methodological conceits and theoretical opportunities: Reflections on the level of analysis appropriate for explaining socio- cultural phenomenaList of contributors -- Index
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)558767

"The papers in this volume were first presented at a special conference of the International Association for the History of Religions ... August 5-9, 1991"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Historical models -- Gods� statues as a tool of Assyrian political policy: Esarhaddon�s return of Marduk to Babylon -- Religious projection: A Hellenistic instance -- Mani versus Mazdak: The prophet and his king in pre-Islamic Iran -- Religious transformations and socio-political change: A western eurocentric paradigm? -- Eastern Europe -- The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture -- Personal spiritual orientations and religiousness in (former) Soviet society

John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev: The process of globalization in multidimensional comparisonThe analogy of the proportionalitas: The coherence between sociopolitical development and the development of religion in the new socio-cultural reality of Czechoslovakia -- National history, culture and the process of religious change -- Religion and revolution: A Hungarian pilgrimage in Rumania -- Muslim fundamentalism in Soviet Central Asia: A social perspective -- The Muslims of Poland: A religious minority in transition

Delusion and illusion, false hopes and failed dreams: Religion, the churches and East Germany�s 1989 “November revolution�Theology of liberation and the Protestant monastery of Loccum in Germany -- Opposition within affinity between religion and politics with reference to Golden Age Denmark and Brazil -- Latin America -- Religious transformations and social change in Latin America -- In the beginning there were the Canaries ... : The forgotten purgatory en route to the new world -- Missionary activity in Latin America: Confession manuals and indigenous eroticism

Iconography, inter subjectivity, and anthropological experience: A Toba shamanic treePolitical culture, religious culture and sacrifice -- Theoretical and methodological implications -- Theories on tradition and change in sociology, anthropology, history, and the history of religions -- Method, theory, and the subject matter -- What sort of “reality� is religion? -- The symbolics of power discourse among contemporary religious groups in West Africa -- Religious studies as a saving grace? From Goodenough to South Africa -- Conclusion

Methodological conceits and theoretical opportunities: Reflections on the level of analysis appropriate for explaining socio- cultural phenomenaList of contributors -- Index

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