The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America
The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America

Author: Virginia Garrard-Burnett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-11

Total Pages: 995

ISBN-13: 1316495280

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The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America covers religious history in Latin America from pre-Conquest times until the present. This publication is important; first, because of the historical and contemporary centrality of religion in the life of Latin America; second, for the rapid process of religious change which the region is undergoing; and third, for the region's religious distinctiveness in global comparative terms, which contributes to its importance for debates over religion, globalization, and modernity. Reflecting recent currents of scholarship, this volume addresses the breadth of Latin American religion, including religions of the African diaspora, indigenous spiritual expressions, non-Christian traditions, new religious movements, alternative spiritualities, and secularizing tendencies.

New Myth, New World
New Myth, New World

Author: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780271046587

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The Nazis' use and misuse of Nietzsche is well known. In this pioneering book, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal excavates the trail of long-obscured Nietzschean ideas that took root in late Imperial Russia, intertwining with other elements in the culture to become a vital ingredient of Bolshevism and Stalinism.

Obeah and Other Powers
Obeah and Other Powers

Author: Diana Paton

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2012-04-13

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0822351331

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This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy.

Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World
Indigenous Religion and Cultural Performance in the New Maya World

Author: Garrett W. Cook

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0826353185

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Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil. Focusing on the primary participants in the annual festival in the K'iche' Maya village of Santiago Momostenango, the authors show how older religious traditionalists and the new generation of "cultural activist" religious practitioners interact within a single local community, and how their competing agendas for adapting Maya religiosity to a new and continually changing political economy are perpetuating and changing Maya religious traditions.

Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism

Author: Rosalind Shaw

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1134833946

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Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not conform to `official' (read `European') models. In other contexts however, the syncretic amalgamation of religions may be validated as a mode of resistance to colonial hegemony, a sign of cultural survival, or as a means of authorising political dominance in a multicultural state. In Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism the contributors explore the issues of agency and power which are integral to the very process of syncretism and to the competing discourses surrounding the term.

Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion
Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion

Author: Anders Klostergaard Petersen

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004385108

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The chapters explore the possible development of a new scholarly synthesis for the study of religion, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cognition, cultural and ecological environment. Chapters focus on either evolution, cognition, and/or the history of religion.

Resettling America
Resettling America

Author: Gary J. Coates

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-10

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 1000920895

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Every movement has its bellweathers, the ideas that lead the way and rally its adherents towards a set of shared values and visions. Resettling America was one such beacon – a publication for its time and ahead of its time. Those of us doing the work of sustainability and the transformation of communities feel grateful for Gary’s early and prescient contribution that has shaped the thinking of so many around the US and beyond. Essential reading for all green warriors! Jason F. McLennan, Chief Sustainability Officer – Perkins & Will. Founder, Living Building Challenge. Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new Preface by Gary J. Coates, Resettling America was one of the first comprehensive, transdisciplinary books on the crisis of sustainability and the implications of that crisis for the re-design of buildings, towns, cities and regions. Through essays by Coates, which provide a theory of ecological design, and case studies written by leading authors and activists of the time, the book presents a strategic vision of how it would be possible to create a sustainable and livable society through a process of cooperative community development rooted in a radical re-visioning of nature, self and society. By providing a strategic vision, as well offering practical means for creating a sustainable society worth sustaining, Resettling America remains more relevant and inspiring than ever to those who face the ecology of crises that now surround us in the 21st Century.

World Christianity and Global Conquest
World Christianity and Global Conquest

Author: David Lindenfeld

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1108831567

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Explores the global expansion of Christianity since 1500 from the perspectives of the indigenous people who were affected by it.