When James R. Lewis, one of the editors of the current collection, first moved to Norway in late 2009, he was unprepared to discover that so many researchers in Nordic countries were producing ...innovative scholarship on new religions and on the new age subculture. In fact, over the past dozen years or so, an increasingly disproportionate percentage of new religions scholars have arisen in Nordic countries and teach at universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic countries. Nordic New Religions, co-edited with Inga B. Tøllefsen, surveys this rich field of study in this area of the world, focusing on the scholarship being produced by scholars in this region of northern Europe.
Society of the dead Ochoa, Todd Ramón
2010., 20100918, 2010, 2010-10-28, 20100101
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In a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramón Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired "society of affliction" that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion. Narrated as an ...encounter with two teachers of Palo, the book unfolds on the outskirts of Havana as it recounts Ochoa's attempts to assimilate Palo praise of the dead. As he comes to terms with a world in which everyday events and materials are composed of the dead, Ochoa discovers in Palo unexpected resources for understanding the relationship between matter and spirit, for rethinking anthropology's rendering of sorcery, and for representing the play of power in Cuban society. The first fully detailed treatment of the world of Palo, Society of the Dead draws upon recent critiques of Western metaphysics as it reveals what this little known practice can tell us about sensation, transformation, and redemption in the Black Atlantic.
La religione sociniana Imbruglia, Girolamo
Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken,
11/2022, Letnik:
102, Številka:
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Abstract The argument of this article is twofold: first, it defines Socinianism as neither a kind of Deism nor a Christian heresy but as a new modern religion of the Renaissance; second, and ...consequently, treating Socinianism as a religion, this article inquires into the nature of Socinian cult and community. This latter point has been largely neglected by the scholarship. In the century between Faustus Socinus’s „De Christo Servatore“ (1584) and Wissowatius’ catechism (1684), the Socinians changed some of the major tenets of their theory of religio , in particular Socinus’s refutation of the idea of religious sacrifice. This article shows that this theoretical shift, caused by the disputes between Grotius and Crell, was reflected in the different editions of the Socinian catechism. The catechism of 1609, still faithful to Socinus’s ideas, in the 1659 and 1684 editions saw radical changes, accepting the Grotian theory of satisfactio though Faustus Socinus himself had defended the need for a form of cultus , Socinianism was unable to define it and thus did not become a sect, as the Socinians aimed to do but failed to achieve.
New religious movements—commonly known as cults—are defined as organizations that have arisen within the last 200 years. Most treatments of these movements have typically resorted to sensationalism ...rather than objectivity, and New religious movements tend to receive negative media publicity. Despite their unfavorable portrayal in popular culture, however, new religious movements are a global phenomenon and much remains to be studied about these movements. In this newly updated second edition of the Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements, George D. Chryssides traces the rise and development of new religious movements throughout the world. An updated introduction summarizes the phenomenon of new religious movements and lays out the changes to the dictionary since the 2001 edition, while the main body of the dictionary consists of close to 600 cross-referenced entries on key figures, ideas, themes, and places related to various new religious movements. An index organizes the information in the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about new religious movements.
This volume brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original, alternative view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements ...(NRMs) and established religions. It also provides insights into the way the traditional religions are fighting back as they lose numbers to NRMs and are forced to adopt innovative proselytizing strategies and a new global mindset. In order to develop this path-breaking theoretical perspective on globalizing Asian religions, eleven authors in this collection have recast their original empirical data on individual Asian religions to focus on the way these organizations are managed in an overseas or global context, by examining the structure, organizational culture, management style, leadership principles and marketing strategies of the religious movements they had hitherto studied from the perspective of the sociology of religion, or religious studies. Others have adopted a national, regional or global focus in relation to the transnational reach of specifically Japanese religions in North and South America, the EU and Africa. The book examines strategies for global proselytization in a variety of local ethnographic contexts, and thus contributes to the scholarly work on the "glocalisation" of religions.
Sur la lysis dionysiaque Bacelar, Agatha Pitombo
Archai (Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil),
06/2020
30
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Cet article est une étude sur la lysis, la « libération » dionysiaque. On commence avec la suggestion que dans la description de la mania telestike dans le Phèdre 244d-245a, le meilleur candidat ...parmi les pratiques cultuelles dionysiaques à l’opération de soustraction résultante de la rhétorique socratique c’est la transe ménadique (I). Les références ménadiques accompagnent également les témoins sur Dionysos Lysios à Corinthe, Sicyone et Thèbes (II), mais ici les sources nous invitent à élargir l’horizon des pratiques cultuelles dionysiaques pour regarder les cultes à mystère en l’honneur du dieu, notamment aux renseignements des lamelles d’or trouvées dans des sépultures des initiés (III). Puis, on entreprend de proposer une lecture exclusivement dionysiaque (i.e. non-orphique) de la lamelle de Pélinna (OF 485 Bernabé). Cette lecture prend appui sur: une analyse du texte de la lamelle (IV); une critique des interprétations qui mettent la lysis en rapport avec l’expiation du crime des Titans (V); un examen du rôle de Perséphone (VI) ; la signification de lysis dans l’OF 350 Bernabé (VII); l’articulation des célèbres passages de la République où il est question des initiations (2. 363a-366b) avec les dynamiques de la punition différée dans les représentations grecques anciennes de la justice divine (VIII). Puis, l’article suggère que la lysis dionysiaque porte sur une délivrance non seulement après la mort, mais aussi pendant la vie des initiés (IX). En conclusion, l’étude revient au Phèdre 245a pour mettre en contraste les transes ménadique et mystique (X).
On connaît beaucoup de manifestations liées aux cultes et aux rites pendant la préhistoire italienne, surtout au Néolithique et à l’âge du Bronze: il s’agit de fosses creusées dans les sols des ...grottes, de cercles de pierres ou des sépultures, où l’on déposait des offrandes (céramiques, objets votifs, des végétaux ou des animaux, domestiques ou sauvages). Ces phénomènes sont à interpréter comme des manifestations de rites liés à l’agriculture et aux idées de naissance, de mort, de résurrection, comme la « renaissance » des plantes au printemps. Un autre type de culte est dédié aux eaux, comme les eaux blanches des grottes, les eaux des fleuves, des lacs, des sources et celles dues au volcanisme secondaire, telles les eaux thermo minérales ou sulfureuses. On connaît les dépositions de produits de la terre (blé, orge, légumes, fruits sauvages) et les dépositions d’animaux domestiques, dédiées peut-être à des divinités liées à l’économie agricole, mais la présence remarquable d’animaux sauvages (cerfs, chevreuils, ours, loups, lièvres) dans les sites à offrandes ou comme la présence du taureau dans l’art rupestre, nous porte à entrevoir une continuité dans le temps de croyances et de symboles liés à l’importance et à la signification de ces animaux considérés de quelque façon comme sacrés.
Many cult manifestations are known in the Italian Prehistory, especially during the Neolithic and the Metal Ages. They were associated with pits dug in the ground inside caverns, and with stone circles or burials, where vases, votive objects and vegetables or animals offerings were deposited. They were related to agricultural rituals and to practices associated with birth, death and resurrection. Another type of cults concerns those, with depositions of vases or of valuable objects, related to waters, both the drippings clean ones and the rivers, lakes and sources ones, besides those originated from secondary volcanism, such as thermo-mineral or sulphur waters.
Wild religion Chidester, David
2012., 20120324, 2012, 2012-04-23, 20120101
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Wild Religion is a wild ride through recent South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the football World Cup in 2010. In the context of South Africa's political ...journey and religious diversity, David Chidester explores African indigenous religious heritage with a difference. As the spiritual dimension of an African Renaissance, indigenous religion has been recovered in South Africa as a national resource. Wild Religion analyzes indigenous rituals of purification on Robben Island, rituals of healing and reconciliation at the new national shrine, Freedom Park, and rituals of animal sacrifice at the World Cup. Not always in the national interest, indigenous religion also appears in the wild religious creativity of prison gangs, the global spirituality of neo-shamans, the ceremonial display of Zulu virgins, the ancient Egyptian theosophy in South Africa's Parliament, and the new traditionalism of South Africa's President Jacob Zuma. Arguing that the sacred is produced through the religious work of intensive interpretation, formal ritualization, and intense contestation, Chidester develops innovative insights for understanding the meaning and power of religion in a changing society. For anyone interested in religion, Wild Religion uncovers surprising dynamics of sacred space, violence, fundamentalism, heritage, media, sex, sovereignty, and the political economy of the sacred.
New religious movements such as the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and Hare Krishnas are now well established in mainstream cultural consciousness. But responses to these 'cult' groups still tend to be ...overwhelmingly negative, characterized by the furious reactions that they evoke from majority interests. Modern societies need to learn how best to respond to such movements, and how to interpret their benefits and dangers.Researching New Religious Movements provides a cutting-edge analysis of the controversy around new religions in America and Europe today. Drawing on original fieldwork, it explores the battles between the recruiting factions of groups like the Moonies, and the anti-cult movements and Church societies that have mobilized to oppose these. It considers academic and media interventions on both sides, placing special emphasis on the problems of objectivity inherent in the language of 'sects', 'abduction' and 'brainwashing'. Ideal for students, researchers and professionals, this provocative and much-needed book takes the debate over new religious movements to a newly sophisticated level.
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