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Kaṭavuḷ uruvān̲a katai : teyvīkam mar̲r̲um mataṅkaḷin̲ tōr̲r̲am, ōr ar̲iviyal pārvai
On scientific origin of divinity and religions; evolution of God.
Spiritual But Not Religious? Beyond Binary Choices in the Study of Religion
\"Spirituality\" often has been framed in social science research as an alternative to organized \"religion,\" implicitly or explicitly extending theoretical arguments about the privatization of religion. This article uses in-depth qualitative data from a religiously diverse U.S. sample to argue that this either/or distinction not only fails to capture the empirical reality of American religion, it does no justice to the complexity of spirituality. An inductive discursive analysis reveals four primary cultural \"packages,\" or ways in which people construct the meaning of spirituality in conversation: a Theistic Package tying spirituality to personal deities, an Extra-Theistic Package locating spirituality in various naturalistic forms of transcendence, an Ethical Spirituality focusing on everyday compassion, and a contested Belief and Belonging Spirituality tied to cultural notions of religiosity. Spirituality, then, is neither a diffuse individualized phenomenon nor a single cultural alternative to \"religion.\" Analysis of the contested evaluations of Belief and Belonging Spirituality allows a window on the \"moral boundary work\" being done through identifying as \"spiritual but not religious.\" The empirical boundary between spirituality and religion is far more orous than is the moral and political one.
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The World's Parliament of Religions : the East/West encounter, Chicago, 1893
Conceived as a display of the major religions of the world, the 1893 Parliament sought to unite 'all religion against irreligion'. Richard Hughes Seager explores this event in all it complexities and, in a new preface, summarizes recent research and reflects on religious pluralism in an age of religious extremism.
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Documenting the history of religions in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950-1970) : letters, reports and requests across the Iron Curtain
Documenting the History of Religions in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950‒1970) offers an account of the activities of the \"International Association for the History of Religions\" during the Cold War, based on new findings from the archives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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Divining History
For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in equal parts by theology and historical theory, this book offers a provocative exploration of this double-edged legacy. Author Jayne Svenungsson rigorously pursues a middle path between utopian arrogance and an enervated postmodernism, assessing the impact of Jewish and Christian theologies of history on subsequent thinkers, and in the process identifying a web of spiritual and intellectual motifs extending from ancient Jewish prophets to contemporary radicals such as Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek.
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“I Don’t Know if They Really Hated Us or if It Was for Fun”: Memories of Anti-Jewish Violence Perpetrated by Students of the Catholic University of Lublin in Oral Histories from the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre
This article explores the narratives describing the interactions between students of the Catholic University of Lublin and the local Jewish population. It analyzes oral histories from the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” archive using the theoretical framework of intergroup contact theory, intersectionality, and the concept of contact zone. The study presents the accounts thematically, according to the circumstances of the violent behavior, and notes its gendered nature— it was perpetrated mostly by Catholic men. Moreover, it seeks an explanation for these situations and, finally, points to the theory of memory of meanings as a helpful interpretative tool.
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The Growing Social and Moral Conflict Between Conservative Protestantism and Science
Due to conservative Protestant elites challenging scientists in the public sphere, and prominent scientists attacking religion, scholars have claimed that there is an increasing conflict between conservative Protestants and science. However, these claims have never been empirically investigated and these general claims do not specify what conflict is actually about. In this article I use the General Social Survey from 1984 to 2010 to examine whether conservative Protestants are increasingly opposed to the social and moral influence of scientists. I find evidence for increasing opposition by biblical literalist conservative Protestants to the involvement of scientists in social debates about moral issues.
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