Author: Kocku von StuckradPublisher:
ISBN: 9789004162839
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
The Brill Dictionary of Religion: M-R
Author: Kocku von StuckradPublisher:
ISBN: 9789004162839
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
The Brill Dictionary of Religion
Author: Kocku von StuckardThe Brill Dictionary of Religion
Author: Kocku von StuckradPublisher:
ISBN: 9789004124295
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 2100
Book Description
Addresses religion as an element of daily life and public discourse. Provides entries on many and various forms of religious commitment. Addresses the different theologies and doctrines of official institutionalized religions and gives consideration to other religious phenomena. Maps out and defines the networks and connections created by various religions in contemporary societies.
The Brill Dictionary of Religion: E-L
Author: Kocku von StuckradPublisher:
ISBN: 9789004162822
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Problem of Disenchantment
Author: Egil AspremPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004254943
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
The Problem of Disenchantment offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of science, religion, and “the occult” in the early 20th century. By developing a new approach to Max Weber’s famous idea of a “disenchantment of the world”, and drawing on an impressively diverse set of sources, Egil Asprem opens up a broad field of inquiry that connects the histories of science, religion, philosophy, and Western esotericism. Parapsychology, occultism, and the modern natural sciences are usually viewed as distinct cultural phenomena with highly variable intellectual credentials. In spite of this view, Asprem demonstrates that all three have met with similar intellectual problems related to the intelligibility of nature, the relation of facts to values, and the dynamic of immanence and transcendence, and solved them in comparable terms.
Contemporary Esotericism
Author: Egil AspremPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317543564
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The study of contemporary esoteric discourse has hitherto been a largely neglected part of the new academic field of Western esotericism. Contemporary Esotericism provides a broad overview and assessment of the complex world of Western esoteric thought today. Combining historiographical analysis with theories and methodologies from the social sciences, the volume explores new problems and offers new possibilities for the study of esoterica. Contemporary Esotericism studies the period since the 1950s but focuses on the last two decades. The wide range of essays are divided into four thematic sections: the intricacies of esoteric appeals to tradition; the role of popular culture, modern communication technologies, and new media in contemporary esotericism; the impact and influence of esotericism on both religious and secular arenas; and the recent 'de-marginalization' of the esoteric in both scholarship and society.
The Brill Dictionary of Religion: S-Z
Author: Kocku von StuckradPublisher:
ISBN: 9789004162846
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Brill Dictionary of Religion
Author: Kocku von StuckradPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend
Author: Willem de HaanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004525076
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This book traces the origins of the legend that Jewish musicians in concentration camps were forced to play a Tango of Death at the gas chambers and shows how in this legend the actual history is hidden, distorted, or even lost altogether.
Muslims and the New Media
Author: Mr Göran LarssonPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409481573
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Scholars from an extensive range of academic disciplines have focused on Islam in cyberspace and the media, but there are few historical studies that have outlined how Muslim 'ulama' have discussed and debated the introduction and impact of these new media. Muslims and the New Media explores how the introduction of the latest information and communication technologies are mirroring changes and developments within society, as well as the Middle East's relationship to the West. Examining how reformist and conservative Muslim 'ulama' have discussed the printing press, photography, the broadcasting media (radio and television), the cinema, the telephone and the Internet, case studies provide a contextual background to the historical, social and cultural situations that have influenced theological discussions; focusing on how the 'ulama' have debated the 'usefulness' or 'dangers' of the information and communication media. By including both historical and contemporary examples, this book exposes historical trajectories as well as different (and often contested) positions in the Islamic debate about the new media.