Encounter Or Syncretism
Author: Jacques H. Kamstra
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13:
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In Praise of Mixed Religion
Author: William H. Harrison
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0773592032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen asked "What religion do you follow?" the typical answer is to name a specific group, or to respond "None." An increasing number of people, however, are intentionally combining elements from various religious heritages, demonstrating that religions do not have firm boundaries, nor are they purely distinct. In Praise of Mixed Religion discusses the concept of syncretism, the term for the mixing of religious perspectives. The religious studies discipline has traditionally distinguished between two responses to syncretism: a subjective view, which treats syncretism as morally reprehensible, and an objective view, which treats it as a morally neutral phenomenon. William Harrison adopts a third perspective, the advocacy view, which claims that mixing religions is a good and necessary process. He cites countless examples - such as Islam's transformative encounter with Greek thought - from both history and recent years to show how religious traditions have gained theological and practical wisdom by borrowing key ideas, beliefs, and practices from outside their own movements. By encouraging syncretism, In Praise of Mixed Religion contests the hard boundaries between religious worldviews and presents a dramatic alternative for thinking and talking about religion.
Syncretism in Religion
Author: Anita Maria Leopold
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1136733450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong a fascinating but problematic category of religious studies, "syncretism" is an elastic term that describes a wide range of practices characterized by the mixing or overlap of traditions. Syncretism in Religion offers the student a broad selection of essays, both classical contributions to the study of syncretism and new essays commissioned especially for this volume. Some important selections appear here in English for the first time. Also included is a list of references for further reading.
Encounter Or Syncretism
Author: Jacques H. Kamstra
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 526
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa
Author: Alexander Henn
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0253013003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe state of Goa on India's southwest coast was once the capital of the Portuguese-Catholic empire in Asia. When Vasco Da Gama arrived in India in 1498, he mistook Hindus for Christians, but Jesuit missionaries soon declared war on the alleged idolatry of the Hindus. Today, Hindus and Catholics assert their own religious identities, but Hindu village gods and Catholic patron saints attract worship from members of both religious communities. Through fresh readings of early Portuguese sources and long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this study traces the history of Hindu-Catholic syncretism in Goa and reveals the complex role of religion at the intersection of colonialism and modernity.
The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion
Author: Michael Stausberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-11-17
Total Pages: 881
ISBN-13: 0191045896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptual aspects of research on religion. Part two surveys eleven main frameworks of analysis, interpretation, and explanation of religion. Reflecting recent turns in the humanities and social sciences, part three considers eight forms of the expression of religion. Part four provides a discussion of the ways societies and religions, or religious organizations, are shaped by different forms of allocation of resources. Other chapters in this section consider law, the media, nature, medicine, politics, science, sports, and tourism. Part five reviews important developments, distinctions, and arguments for each of the selected topics. The study of religion addresses religion as a historical phenomenon and part six looks at seven historical processes. Religion is studied in various ways by many disciplines, and this Handbook shows that the study of religion is an academic discipline in its own right. The disciplinary profile of this volume is reflected in part seven, which considers the history of the discipline and its relevance. Each chapter in the Handbook references at least two different religions to provide fresh and innovative perspectives on key issues in the field. This authoritative collection will advance the state of the discipline and is an invaluable reference for students and scholars.
American JewBu
Author: Emily Sigalow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0691174598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking readers from the 19th century to today, the author shows how Buddhism in the U.S. has given rise to new contemplative forms within American Judaism and shaped the way Americans understand and practice Buddhism.
Dialogue and Syncretism
Author: Jerald D. Gort
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780802805010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new series emerging from discussions within an interdisciplinary research group at the Free University of Amsterdam, CURRENTS OF ENCOUNTER will deal with specific concerns of theology of religion, philosophy of religion, and comparative religion. In addition, the series will explore the relation between the Christian faith and contemporary culture as well as the encounter between Asian, African, Latin American, and Western contextualizations of Christianity. The aim of CURRENTS OF ENCOUNTER is to stimulate discussion and reflection on its theme from various presuppositional and methodological points of view. The underlying assumption of this aim is that the interdisciplinary avenue—neither an exclusively positivist nor a purely normative theological approach—provides the best means of access to a better understanding of the problems and potentialities inherent in the encounter between Christianity and the world of which it is a part -- Book cover.
World Christianity Encounters World Religions
Author: Edmund Kee-Fook Chia
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0814684475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSynthesizing the thinking of the most prominent scholars, Professor Edmund Chia discusses practically everything that should be known about Christianity’s encounter with other religions in this comprehensive book. Topics include: the invention of the idea of World Religions and World Christianity the Bible and the church’s attitude toward other faiths Vatican II, Asian Christianity, and interfaith dialogue the what, why, when, and how of dialogue the global ecumenical movement theologies of religious pluralism cross-textual hermeneutics comparative theology interfaith worship religious syncretism multiple religious belonging interfaith learning in seminaries.
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
Author: Rosalind Shaw
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1134833954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributors explore the issues of agency and power which motivate the conflicting discourses surrounding syncretism, that is the mixing of different religious traditions within a culture.
