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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461996003321

Titolo

Religious transformations and socio-political change [[electronic resource] ] : Eastern Europe and Latin America / / edited by Luther Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1993

ISBN

3-11-088420-8

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Collana

Religion and society ; ; 33

Altri autori (Persone)

MartinLuther H. <1937->

Disciplina

291.1/77

Soggetti

Religion and politics - History

Religion and sociology

Electronic books.

Europe, Eastern Religion Congresses

Latin America Religion Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The papers in this volume were first presented at a special conference of the International Association for the History of Religions ... August 5-9, 1991"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Introduction / Martin, Luther Η. -- Historical models -- Gods' statues as a tool of Assyrian political policy: Esarhaddon's return of Marduk to Babylon / Porter Nevling, Barbara -- Religious projection: A Hellenistic instance / Versnel, Η. S. -- Mani versus Mazdak: The prophet and his king in pre-Islamic Iran / Casadio, Giovanni -- Religious transformations and socio-political change: A western eurocentric paradigm? / Paper, Jordan -- Eastern Europe -- The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture / Smolyakov, Leonid J. -- Personal spiritual orientations and religiousness in (former) Soviet society / Zotz, Vladimir -- John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev: The process of globalization in multidimensional comparison / Papoušek, Dalibor -- The analogy of the proportionalitas: The coherence between socio-political development and the development of religion in the new socio-cultural reality of Czechoslovakia / Horyna, Břetislav -- National history, culture and the process of religious change / Szmyd, Jan -- Religion and revolution: A Hungarian pilgrimage in Rumania / Lovász, Irén -- Muslim fundamentalism in



Soviet Central Asia: A social perspective / Mickulsky, Dimitry -- The Muslims of Poland: A religious minority in transition / Danecki, Janusz -- Delusion and illusion, false hopes and failed dreams: Religion, the churches and East Germany's 1989 "November revolution" / Lease, Gary -- Theology of liberation and the Protestant monastery of Loccum in Germany / Antes, Peter -- Opposition within affinity between religion and politics with reference to Golden Age Denmark and Brazil / Khan, Abrahim Η. -- Latin America -- Religious transformations and social change in Latin America / Masferrer Kan, Elio -- In the beginning there were the Canaries ...: The forgotten purgatory en route to the new world / Vasquez, Irene S. -- Missionary activity in Latin America: Confession manuals and indigenous eroticism / Marcos, Sylvia -- Iconography, intersubjectivity, and anthropological experience: A Toba shamanic tree / Wright, Pablo G. -- Political culture, religious culture and sacrifice / Strenski, Ivan -- Theoretical and methodological implications -- Theories on tradition and change in sociology, anthropology, history, and the history of religions / Geertz, Armin W. -- Method, theory, and the subject matter / Bianchi, Ugo -- What sort of "reality" is religion? / Jensen Sinding, Jeppe -- The symbolics of power discourse among contemporary religious groups in West Africa / Hackett, Rosalind I. J. -- Religious studies as a saving grace? From Goodenough to South Africa / Wiehe, Donald -- Conclusion -- Methodological conceits and theoretical opportunities: Reflections on the level of analysis appropriate for explaining socio-cultural phenomena / Lawson, Ε. Thomas -- List of Contributors -- Index