Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change: Eastern Europe and Latin America

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Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change

Eastern Europe and Latin America

Edited by: Luther Martin

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1993

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Volume 33 | Religion and Society

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I-VI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Introduction Luther Η. Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Historical models
Gods' statues as a tool of Assyrian political policy: Esarhaddon's return of Marduk to Babylon Barbara Porter Nevling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Religious projection: A Hellenistic instance Η. S. Versnel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Mani versus Mazdak: The prophet and his king in pre-Islamic Iran Giovanni Casadio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
Religious transformations and socio-political change: A western eurocentric paradigm? Jordan Paper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
Eastern Europe
The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture Leonid J. Smolyakov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
Personal spiritual orientations and religiousness in (former) Soviet society Vladimir Zotz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev: The process of globalization in multidimensional comparison Dalibor Papoušek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
The analogy of the proportionalitas: The coherence between socio-political development and the development of religion in the new socio-cultural reality of Czechoslovakia Břetislav Horyna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
National history, culture and the process of religious change Jan Szmyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
Religion and revolution: A Hungarian pilgrimage in Rumania Irén Lovász Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
Muslim fundamentalism in Soviet Central Asia: A social perspective Dimitry Mickulsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
The Muslims of Poland: A religious minority in transition Janusz Danecki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
Delusion and illusion, false hopes and failed dreams: Religion, the churches and East Germany's 1989 "November revolution" Gary Lease Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
Theology of liberation and the Protestant monastery of Loccum in Germany Peter Antes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Opposition within affinity between religion and politics with reference to Golden Age Denmark and Brazil Abrahim Η. Khan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
Latin America
Religious transformations and social change in Latin America Elio Masferrer Kan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
In the beginning there were the Canaries ...: The forgotten purgatory en route to the new world Irene S. Vasquez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
Missionary activity in Latin America: Confession manuals and indigenous eroticism Sylvia Marcos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
Iconography, intersubjectivity, and anthropological experience: A Toba shamanic tree Pablo G. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
Political culture, religious culture and sacrifice Ivan Strenski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
Theoretical and methodological implications
Theories on tradition and change in sociology, anthropology, history, and the history of religions Armin W. Geertz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Method, theory, and the subject matter Ugo Bianchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
What sort of "reality" is religion? Jeppe Jensen Sinding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
The symbolics of power discourse among contemporary religious groups in West Africa Rosalind I. J. Hackett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381
Religious studies as a saving grace? From Goodenough to South Africa Donald Wiehe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
Conclusion
Methodological conceits and theoretical opportunities: Reflections on the level of analysis appropriate for explaining socio-cultural phenomena Ε. Thomas Lawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	441
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	453
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	455

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July 26, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110884203

Hardcover published on:

August 1, 1993

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110137347

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Reprint 2011

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Front matter:

14

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457

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2

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110884203

eBook ISBN: 9783110884203

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110137347

Keywords for this book

Osteuropa; Religion; Gesellschaft; Entwicklung; Kongress

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