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Colonial transformation and Asian religions in modern history
The localisation of a region, group, or culture was a common social phenomenon in pre-modern Asia, but global colonialism began to affect the lifestyle of local people. What was the political condition of the relationship between insiders and outsiders? The impact of colonial authorities over religious communities has not received significant attention, even though the Asian continent is the home of many religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Shintoism, and Shamanism. Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History presents multi-angled perspectives of socio-religious transition. It uses the cultural religiosity of the Asian people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concepts of imperialism, religious syncretism and modernisation. The contributors interpret the growth of new religions as another facet of counter-colonialism. This new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the practical agony and sorrow of regional people throughout Asian history.
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The origins of global humanitarianism : religion, empires, and advocacy
\"Whether lauded and encouraged or criticized and maligned, action in solidarity with culturally and geographically distant strangers has been an integral part of European modernity. Traversing the complex political landscape of early modern European empires, this book locates the historical origins of modern global humanitarianism in the recurrent conflict over the ethical treatment of non-Europeans that pitted religious reformers against secular imperial networks. Since the sixteenth-century beginnings of European expansion overseas and in marked opposition to the exploitative logic of predatory imperialism, these reformers - members of Catholic orders and, later, Quakers and other reformist Protestants - developed an ideology and a political practice in defense of the rights and interests of distant \"others.\" They also increasingly made the question of imperial injustice relevant to growing \"domestic\" publics in Europe. A distinctive institutional model of long-distance advocacy crystallized out of these persistent struggles, becoming the standard weapon of transnational activists\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Playing an Aotearoa Counterpoint
What is happening here and what am I to make of it? That double question, of wonderment and a critical curiosity. Others, of course, have been there before me. In 1988 Katharine Doob Sakenfeld gave an inaugural lecture titled “In the Wilderness, Awaiting the Land: The Daughters of Zelophehad and Feminist Interpretation.”¹ That was over twenty years ago, a time when feminist scholars were still, in her words, “in the wilderness,” so presenting three different readings of the passages in Numbers 27 and 36, using three different methodologies—all of them feminist, and, most significantly, all presented as viable even
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Communal violence in the British Empire : disturbing the Pax
\"The first comprehensive study of religious, ethnic and communal violence in the British Empire\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Faithful Bodies
In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano Kopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in the puritan Atlantic, demonstrating how the categories of white, black, and Indian developed alongside religious boundaries between Christian and heathen and between Catholic and Protestant.Faithful Bodiesfocuses on three communities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In this puritan Atlantic, religion determined insider and outsider status: at times Africans and Natives could belong as long as they embraced the Protestant faith, while Irish Catholics and English Quakers remained suspect. Colonists interactions with indigenous peoples of the Americas and with West Central Africans shaped their understandings of human difference and its acceptable boundaries. Prayer, religious instruction, sexual behavior, and other public and private acts became markers of whether or not blacks and Indians were sinning Christians or godless heathens. As slavery became law, transgressing people of color counted less and less as sinners in English puritans eyes, even as some of them made Christianity an integral part of their communities. As Kopelson shows, this transformation proceeded unevenly but inexorably during the long seventeenth century.
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Faithful bodies : performing religion and race in the Puritan Atlantic
\"In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano Kopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in the Puritan Atlantic, demonstrating how the categories of 'white,' 'black,' and 'Indian' developed alongside religious boundaries between 'Christian' and 'heathen' and between 'Catholic' and 'Protestant.' Faithful Bodies focuses on three communities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In this 'Puritan Atlantic,' religion determined insider and outsider status: at times Africans and Natives could belong as long as they embraced the Protestant faith, while Irish Catholics and English Quakers remained suspect. Colonists' interactions with indigenous peoples of the Americas and with West Central Africans shaped their understandings of human difference and its acceptable boundaries. Prayer, religious instruction, sexual behavior, and other public and private acts became markers of whether or not Blacks and Indians were sinning Christians or godless heathens. As slavery became law, transgressing people of color counted less and less as sinners in English Puritans' eyes, even as some of them made Christianity an integral part of their communities. As Kopelson shows, this transformation proceeded unevenly but inexorably during the long seventeenth century\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Men of God
A broadly researched cultural history,
Men of God offers a path to understanding the concept of
religious masculinity through an intimate approach to the study
of friars and lay brothers in colonial Mexico. Though other
scholars have focused on the missionary work of the Augustinian,
Franciscan, and Dominican friars, few have addressed their
everyday lives and how the internal discipline of their orders
shaped them. In
Men of God Asunción Lavrin offers a sweeping yet
intimate history of the mendicant friars in New Spain from the
late sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Focusing on
these individuals' lives from childhood through death, Lavrin
explores contemporaneous ideas, from how to raise a boy to the
friars' training as novices, and the similarities and differences
in the life experiences of lay brothers and ordained members. She
discusses their sexuality to reveal the challenges and failures
of religious manhood, as well as the drive behind their
missionary duties, especially in the late seventeenth through the
eighteenth centuries.
Men of God also explores the concepts and realities of
martyrdom and death, significant elements in the spirituality of
the mendicant friars of colonial Mexico.
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All Can Be Saved
It would seem unlikely that one could discover tolerant religious attitudes in Spain, Portugal, and the New World colonies during the era of the Inquisition, when enforcement of Catholic orthodoxy was widespread and brutal. Yet this groundbreaking book does exactly that. Drawing on an enormous body of historical evidence-including records of the Inquisition itself-the historian Stuart Schwartz investigates the idea of religious tolerance and its evolution in the Hispanic world from 1500 to 1820. Focusing on the attitudes and beliefs of common people rather than those of intellectual elites, the author finds that no small segment of the population believed in freedom of conscience and rejected the exclusive validity of the Church.
The book explores various sources of tolerant attitudes, the challenges that the New World presented to religious orthodoxy, the complex relations between \"popular\" and \"learned\" culture, and many related topics. The volume concludes with a discussion of the relativist ideas that were taking hold elsewhere in Europe during this era.
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