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Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change : Eastern Europe and Latin America / ed. by Luther Martin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Society ; 33Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (457 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110137347
  • 9783110884203
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291.1/77 20
LOC classification:
  • BL980.E852 R45 1993eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-VI -- 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 comparison -- The analogy of the proportionalitas: The coherence between socio-political 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, intersubjectivity, and anthropological experience: A Toba shamanic tree -- Political 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 phenomena -- List of Contributors -- Index
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I-VI -- 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 comparison -- The analogy of the proportionalitas: The coherence between socio-political 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, intersubjectivity, and anthropological experience: A Toba shamanic tree -- Political 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 phenomena -- List of Contributors -- Index

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