ISBN:
9789004277786
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (204 p)
Series Statement:
Religion and the Social Order
Series Statement:
Religion and the Social Order Ser. v.24
Parallel Title:
Print version Religion in Times of Crisis
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Religion in times of crisis
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Crisis management ; Religious aspects
;
Religion ; History ; 20th century
;
Religions ; History ; 21st century
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Religion
;
Krise
;
Politische Krise
;
Religion
;
Moderne
;
Krisenmanagement
;
Lebensangst
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
This book explores the role of religion in times of personal, political, and social crisis in Europe and beyond. Its fresh perspectives on religion, modernity and the nation-state demonstrate the complexity and ambivalence of religion's role in the contemporary world
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface. Of Crises and Challenges (William H. Swatos, Jr.); Introduction. Religion in Times of Crisis (Ganiel, Winkel and Monnot); Part 1. Religion and the Crisis of Modernity; Music, Branding and the Hegemonic Prosumption of Values of an Evangelical Growth Church (Wagner); Religion as a Response to the Crisis of Modernity: Perspectives of Immigrants in Ireland (Kmec); The Electronic Frontier of Catholicism in Poland: An Answer to the Crisis of Religious Community? (Kołodziejska); "I Doubt. Therefore, I Believe": Facing Uncertainty and Belief in the Making (Lamine)
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 2. Religion, Crisis and the Nation-StateReligion in Times of Crisis in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Churches in Manicaland and Its Theodicy of Liberation (Tarusarira); Religion, Homosexuality, and Contested Social Orders in the Netherlands, the Western Balkans, and Sweden (van den Berg, Bos, Derks, Ganzevoort, Jovanović, Korte, and Sremac); Parliamentary Hereticization of the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan: The Modern World Implicated in Islamic Crises (Qadir)
Description / Table of Contents:
Being Recognizable in Order to Overcome the Crisis: The Ambivalence of Islamic Actors' Struggle for Visibility in France and Switzerland (Monnot and Piettre)From Haskalah to Reinterpretation of Tradition: A Crisis in American Reform Judaism in the 21st Century (Topić); Contributors; Religion and the Social Order
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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