Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change
Eastern Europe and Latin America
1st Edition
Published on 26. July 2011
XIV, 457 pages
978-3-11-088420-3 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- 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 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 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
