Religious Individualisation: Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives

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Religious Individualisation

Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by: Martin Fuchs , Antje Linkenbach , Martin Mulsow , Bernd-Christian Otto , Rahul Bjørn Parson and Jörg Rüpke
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods, in particular in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past.

Contrary to standard theories of modernisation, which tend to regard religious individualisation as a specifically modern or early modern as well as an essentially Western or Christian phenomenon, the chapters reveal processes of religious individualisation in a large variety of non-Western and pre-modern scenarios. Furthermore, the volume challenges prevalent views that regard religions primarily as collective phenomena and provides nuanced perspectives on the appropriation of religious agency, the pluralisation of religious options, dynamics of de-traditionalisation and privatisation, the development of elaborated notions of the self, the facilitation of religious deviance, and on the notion of dividuality.

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M. Fuchs, A. Linkenbach, M. Mulsow, B. Otto, J. Rüpke, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt and R. Parson, University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	V
Contents Open Access Download PDF	VII
Volume 1
General introduction Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach, Martin Mulsow, Bernd-Christian Otto, Rahul Bjørn Parson and Jörg Rüpke Open Access Download PDF	1
Part 1: Transcending selves
Introduction: Transcending Selves Martin Fuchs Open Access Download PDF	35
Section 1.1: Relationships between selfhood and transcendence
‘Vase of light’: from the exceptional individuality to the individualisation process as influenced by Greek-Arabic cosmology in Albert the Great’s Super Iohannem Julie Casteigt Open Access Download PDF	53
Self-transcendence in Meister Eckhart Dietmar Mieth Open Access Download PDF	73
The inward sublime: Kant’s aesthetics and the Protestant tradition Magnus Schlette Open Access Download PDF	99
Transcendence and freedom: on the anthropological and cultural centrality of religion Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt Open Access Download PDF	141
Taking Job as an example. Kierkegaard: traces of religious individualization Matthias Engmann Open Access Download PDF	159
Suifaction: typological reflections on the evolution of the self Anders Klostergaard Petersen Open Access Download PDF	185
Afterword: relationships between selfhood and transcendence Julie Casteigt, Matthias Engmann, Elisabeth Gräb-Schmitt, Dietmar Mieth, Anders Klostergaard Petersen and Magnus Schlette Open Access Download PDF	215
Section 1.2: The social lives of religious individualisation
‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house!’ (Gen. 12:1): Schelling’s Boehmian redefinition of idealism Andrés Quero-Sánchez Open Access Download PDF	223
Dining with the gods and the others: the banqueting tickets from Palmyra as expressions of religious individualisation Rubina Raja Open Access Download PDF	243
Self-affirmation, self-transcendence and the relationality of selves: the social embedment of individualisation in bhakti Martin Fuchs Open Access Download PDF	257
Sufis, Jogis, and the question of religious difference: individualisation in early modern Punjab Anne Murphy Open Access Download PDF	289
Afterword: the social lives of religious individualisation Martin Fuchs, Anne Murphy, Andrés Quero-Sánchez and Rubina Raja Open Access Download PDF	315
Part 2: The dividual self
Introduction: the dividual self Antje Linkenbach and Martin Mulsow Open Access Download PDF	323
Section 2.1: Dividual socialities
The subject as totum potestativum in Albert the Great’s OEuvre: cultural transfer and relational identity Julie Casteigt Open Access Download PDF	347
Monism and dividualism in Meister Eckhart Markus Vinzent Open Access Download PDF	363
The empathic subject and the question of dividuality Antje Linkenbach Open Access Download PDF	383
Simmel and the forms of in-dividuality Arthur Bueno Open Access Download PDF	409
Afterword: dividual socialities Arthur Bueno, Julie Casteigt, Antje Linkenbach and Markus Vinzent Open Access Download PDF	437
Section 2.2: Parting the self
Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry Shahzad Bashir Open Access Download PDF	443
The good citizen and the heterodox self: turning to Protestantism and Anabaptism in 16th-century Venice Riccarda Suitner Open Access Download PDF	459
Dividualisation and relational authorship: from the Huguenot République des lettres to practices of clandestine writing Martin Mulsow Open Access Download PDF	475
Disunited identity. Kierkegaard: traces towards dividuality Matthias Engmann Open Access Download PDF	497
Afterword: parting the self Shahzad Bashir, Matthias Engmann, Martin Mulsow and Riccarda Suitner Open Access Download PDF	513
Section 2.3: Porosity, corporeality and the divine
Paul’s Letter to Philemon: a case study in individualisation, dividuation, and partibility in Imperial spatial contexts Harry O. Maier Open Access Download PDF	519
Self as other: distanciation and reflexivity in ancient Greek divination Esther Eidinow Open Access Download PDF	541
The swirl of worlds: possession, porosity and embodiment Aditya Malik Open Access Download PDF	559
‘Greater love …’: Methodist missionaries, self-sacrifice and relational personhood Christine Dureau Open Access Download PDF	583
Challenging personhood: the subject and viewer of contemporary crucifixion iconography Jutta Vinzent Open Access Download PDF	603
Afterword: porosity, corporeality and the divine Christine Dureau, Esther Eidinow, Harry Maier, Aditya Malik and Jutta Vinzent Open Access Download PDF	625
Religious Individualisation Volume 2
Part 3: Conventions and contentions
Introduction: conventions and contentions Bernd-Christian Otto and Rahul Bjørn Parson Open Access Download PDF	633
Section 3.1: Practices
Religious individualisation in China: a two-modal approach Carsten Herrmann-Pillath Open Access Download PDF	643
Individuals in the Eleusinian Mysteries: choices and actions Ioanna Patera Open Access Download PDF	669
Institutionalisation of religious individualisation: asceticism in antiquity and late antiquity and the rejection of slavery and social injustice Ilaria L. E. Ramelli Open Access Download PDF	695
Lived religion and eucharistic piety on the Meuse and the Rhine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker Open Access Download PDF	719
Migrant precarity and religious individualisation Michael Nijhawan Open Access Download PDF	737
The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation Bernd-Christian Otto Open Access Download PDF	759
Afterword: practices Carsten Hermann-Pillath, Anneke Mulder-Bakker, Michael Nijhawan, Bernd-Christian Otto, Ioanna Patera and Ilaria Ramelli Open Access Download PDF	797
Section 3.2: Texts and narratives
‘… quod nolo, illud facio’ (Romans 7:20): institutionalising the unstable self Ian H. Henderson Open Access Download PDF	807
Individualisation, deindividualisation, and institutionalisation among the early Mahānubhāvs Anne Feldhaus Open Access Download PDF	831
Religious individualisation and collective bhakti: Sarala Dasa and Bhima Bhoi Ishita Banerjee-Dube Open Access Download PDF	847
Individualisation and democratisation of knowledge in Banārasīdās’ Samayasāra Nāṭaka Rahul Bjørn Parson Open Access Download PDF	865
Subjects of conversion in colonial central India Saurabh Dube Open Access Download PDF	895
Many biographies – multiple individualities: the identities of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang Max Deeg Open Access Download PDF	913
Jewish emancipation, religious individualisation, and metropolitan integration: a case study on Moses Mendelssohn and Moritz Lazarus Sabine Sander Open Access Download PDF	939
Afterword: texts and narratives Ishita Banerjee-Dube, Max Deeg, Saurabh Dube, Anne Feldhaus, Ian Henderson, Rahul Bjørn Parson and Sabine Sander Open Access Download PDF	963
Part 4: Authorities in religious individualisation
Introduction: authorities in religious individualisation Jörg Rüpke Open Access Download PDF	971
Section 4.1: Between hegemony & heterogeneity
Subordinated religious specialism and individuation in the Graeco-Roman world Richard Gordon Open Access Download PDF	985
Religion and the limits of individualisation in ancient Athens: Andocides, Socrates, and the fair-breasted Phryne Jan N. Bremmer Open Access Download PDF	1009
Traveling with the Picatrix: cultural liminalities of science and magic Avner Ben-Zaken Open Access Download PDF	1033
Singular individuals, conflicting authorities: Annie Besant and Mohandas Gandhi Kumkum Sangari Open Access Download PDF	1065
Being Hindu in India: culture, religion, and the Gita Press (1950) Vasudha Dalmia Open Access Download PDF	1097
Individualised versus institutional religion: Is there a mediating position? Veronika Hoffmann Open Access Download PDF	1121
Constructing a genuine religious character: the impact of the asylum court on the Ahmadiyya community in Germany Michael Nijhawan Open Access Download PDF	1139
Afterword: de- and neotraditionalisation Avner Ben-Zaken, Jan Bremmer, Vasudha Dalmia, Richard Gordon, Michael Nijhawan and Kumkum Sangari Open Access Download PDF	1165
Section 4.2: Pluralisation
Religious plurality and individual authority in the Mahābhārata Angelika Malinar Open Access Download PDF	1173
Ritual objects and religious communication in lived ancient religion: multiplying religion Jörg Rüpke Open Access Download PDF	1201
Institutionalisation of tradition and individualised lived Christian religion in Late Antiquity Luise Marion Frenkel Open Access Download PDF	1223
Early modern erudition and religious individualisation: the case of Johann Zechendorff (1580–1662) Asaph Ben-Tov Open Access Download PDF	1255
Islamic mystical responses to hegemonic orthodoxy: the subcontinental perspective Amit Dey Open Access Download PDF	1269
Afterword: pluralisation Asaph Ben-Tov, Amit Dey, Luise Marion Frenkel, Angelika Malinar and Jörg Rüpke Open Access Download PDF	1291
Section 4.3: Walking the edges
Understanding ‘prophecy’: charisma, religious enthusiasm, and religious individualisation in the 17th century. A cross-cultural approach Cristiana Facchini Open Access Download PDF	1299
Out of bounds, still in control: exclusion, religious individuation and individualisation during the later Middle Ages Katharina Ulrike Mersch Open Access Download PDF	1321
The lonely antipope – or why we have difficulties classifying Pedro de Luna [Benedict XIII] as a religious individual Britta Müller-Schauenburg Open Access Download PDF	1351
Varieties of spiritual individualisation in the theosophical movement: the United Lodge of theosophists India as climax of individualisation-processes within the theosophical movement Cornelia Haas Open Access Download PDF	1365
Individualisation in conformity: Keshab Chandra Sen and canons of the self Vera Höke Open Access Download PDF	1381
Afterword: walking the edges Cristiana Facchini, Cornelia Haas, Vera Höke, Katharina Mersch and Britta Müller-Schauenburg Open Access Download PDF	1401
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	1405

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Individualisation; self; religious experience; theory of religion

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