Dynamics of religion : past and present / edited by Christoph Bochinger and Jorg Rupke ; in cooperation with Elisabeth Begemann. - 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations. - Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; Band 67 . - Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten ; Band 67. .

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

The dynamics of religions and cultural evolution: Worshipping Fuxi in contemporary China / Hubert Seiwert -- Religion and public space in contemporary Japan: Re-activation of the civilization of the axial age and the manifestation of State Shinto and Buddhism / Susume Shimazono -- The tactics of (in)visibility among religious communities in contemporary Europe / Kim Knott -- Religion intersecting de-nationalization and re-nationalization in post-apartheid South Africa / Gerald O. West -- Forms of religious communities in global society: tradition, invention, and transformation / Peter Beyer -- Subversive spirituality: political contributions of ancestral cosmologies decolonizing religious beliefs / Sylvia Marcos -- Religion and the historical imagination: esoteric tradition as poetic invention / Wouter J. Hanegraff -- Religion and life trajectory: Islamists against self and other / Abdulkader Tayob -- Angels, animals and religious change in antiquity and today / Ingvild Slid Gilhus -- Gaining access to the radically unfamiliar: religion in modern times / Kalpana Ram -- 'Cloning minds': Religion between individuals and collectives / Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- Of yellow teaching and black faith: entangled knowledge cultures and the creation of religious traditions / Karenina Kollmar-Paulenz -- Global intellectual history and the dynamics of relgion / Martin Muslow -- Narrating, performing and feeling a "religion": on representations of Judaism / Cristiana Facchini.

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Religion and culture.
Apartheid--Religious aspects.--South Africa
Shinto and state--Japan.
Imperialism--Religious aspects.
Buddhism--Japan.
Established churches.
Cultural pluralism.
Fuxi (Legendary character)
Islamic fundamentalism.
Judaism and culture.


Electronic books.

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