Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Friedensstiftende Religionen?: Religion und die Deeskalation politischer Konflikte (Politik und Religion) [Repost]




Friedensstiftende Religionen?: Religion und die Deeskalation politischer Konflikte (Politik und Religion) (German Edition) by Manfred Brocker


German | Oct. 4, 2007 | ISBN: 3531157248 | 325 Pages | PDF | 870.29 KB




Jahrelang war die Religion kein Gegenstand sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung. Spätestens seit den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 hat das Thema jedoch Konjunktur. Dabei ist für den gegenwärtigen Diskurs der Konnex von Religion und Krieg bzw. Terror kennzeichnend. Der vorliegende Band legt das Augenmerk auf den gegenteiligen Effekt und betritt damit Neuland: Haben Religionen nicht auch friedensstiftendes Potential? Immerhin halten so gut wie alle Glaubenslehren Friedensvisionen bereit. Auf einer ideengeschichtlichen, theoretischen und empirischen Ebene fragen die Autoren nach dem Beitrag religiöser Akteure zur Vermeidung oder gar Beilegung von gesellschaftlichen und politischen Konflikten. Der Band liefert damit eine erste Bestandsaufnahme eines bislang kaum beachteten Aspekts in der Beschäftigung mit Religion.








Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Border Identifications: Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border




Border Identifications: Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Inter-America Series) by Pablo Vila


English | 1 Aug. 2005 | ISBN: 0292705832, 0292702914 | 314 Pages | PDF | 2 MB




From poets to sociologists, many people who write about life on the U.S.-Mexico border use terms such as "border crossing" and "hybridity" which suggest that a unified culture – neither Mexican nor American, but an amalgamation of both – has arisen in the borderlands.










Sunday, September 13, 2015

Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325 by Augustine Thompson




Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325 by Augustine Thompson


English | 3 Nov. 2005 | ISBN: 0271024771 | 517 Pages | PDF | 2 MB




We know much about the Italian city states-the "communes"-of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. But historians have focused on their political accomplishments to the exclusion of their religious life, going so far as to call them "purely secular contrivances."










Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan




Barbara R. Ambros, "Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan"


ISBN: 082483626X, 082483674X | 2012 | PDF | 280 pages | 23 MB


Since the 1990s the Japanese pet industry has grown to a trillion-yen business and estimates place the number of pets above the number of children under the age of fifteen. There are between 6,000 to 8,000 businesses in the Japanese pet funeral industry, including more than 900 pet cemeteries. Of these about 120 are operated by Buddhist temples, and Buddhist mortuary rites for pets have become an institutionalised practice. In Bones of Contention , Barbara Ambros investigates what religious and intellectual traditions constructed animals as subjects of religious rituals and how pets have been included or excluded in the necral landscapes of contemporary Japan. Pet mortuary rites are emblems of the ongoing changes in contemporary Japanese religions. The increase in single and nuclear-family households, marriage delays for both males and females, the falling birthrate and graying of society, the occult boom of the 1980s, the pet boom of the 1990s, the anti-religious backlash in the wake of the 1995 Aum Shinriky incident–all of these and more have contributed to Japan"s contested history of pet mortuary rites. Ambros uses this history to shed light on important questions such as: Who (or what) counts as a family member? What kinds of practices should the state recognise as religious and thus protect financially and legally? Is it frivolous or selfish to keep, pamper, or love an animal? Should humans and pets be buried together? How do people reconcile the deeply personal grief that follows the loss of a pet and how do they imagine the afterlife of pets? And ultimately, what is the status of animals in Japan? Bones of Contention is a book about how Japanese people feel and think about pets and other kinds of animals and, in turn, what pets and their people have to tell us about life and death in Japan today.






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