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Providing an overview of significant topics and trends in the anthropology of religion, this work examines the varied manifestations of religion in diverse cultural contexts. Among the topics covered are Shamanism, snake handling and rituals in particular cultural traditions.

The conventional soc sci view that discrimination against the Negro in Brazil has an econ base, that race & class intersect, is narrow. The cultural elite has selected religion as the Negro's badge of identification often enough to warrant the hypothesis that religion is a sensitive gauge for evaluating the changing climate of opinion toward the Negro Brazilian. Jesuits, doctors, novelists, priests, & other white observers quoted have distinguished spontaneous or barbarous from civilized Catholicism by use of such labels as mad, savage, superstitious, convulsive & demonic. 3 manifestations of Afro-Brazilian religion are discussed with the reaction of educated Bfazilians toward them: (1) `fetishism'; (2) religious brotherhoods of laymen; & (3) present-day cult groups. The latter are no longer persecuted, because since 1920, art & scholarship have bestowed prestige on Afro-Brazilian subculture & perhaps raised the SS of Negro Brazilians. Still, white Brazilians who regard spirit possession as black magic, not as a religion, look upon its practitioners as members of a soc'ly lower Negro race. AA.

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AbstractThis article explores Pentecostal sounds and voice in postgenocide Rwanda. It centers on the question of why gospel singers were criticized for crossing over into "secular" music after beginning their careers in the church. Joining scholarship that examines the relationship between media and religion, it suggests that in Rwanda debates about the kind of music Pentecostal artists should perform must be contextualized in relation to (1) a Pentecostal "theology of sound," or the belief that particular music and sound practices bring individuals closer to God; and (2) changes within Rwanda's postgenocide media landscape. The liberalization of the media in 2002, coupled with advances in recording technology, created new possibilities for Pentecostals to become individual "gospel stars," as opposed to choir members, in ways that they had been unable to before, prompting debates about the nature of the postgenocide Pentecostal voice itself. These debates are considered alongside Pentecostal radio, and within a wider context in which the Rwandan government has become increasingly concerned with policing "noise pollution." Paying closer attention to the materialities of sound and voice helps us trace the specific ways in which Pentecostalism attempts to "go public" and the kind of public it calls into being.

Das in einer "Gesellschaft des langen Lebens" zunehmend bedeutsame Feld der religiösen/kirchlichenBildung im Alter(n) wird im Horizont dreier unterschiedlicher Zugänge durchbuchstabiert: Ein ersterTeil fokussiert auf die kirchliche Altenbildung, insofern sie sich durch ihre kirchliche Trägerschaft undspeziell über die Kategorie "Alter" definiert; danach richtet sich der Blick – unter besonderer Beachtungdes Bildungsbegriffs – auf die Bildungsarbeit mit alten und älteren Menschen als Bereich kirchlich-konfessioneller Erwachsenenbildung; ein letzter, religionsgeragogisch ausgerichteter Teil stellt aufreligiöse Bildungsprozesse im Alter ab, denkt also religiöse/kirchliche Bildung im Alter als Teilbereichreligiös-spiritueller Erwachsenenbildung. Diese drei Zugänge lassen das Bild einer pluralitätssensiblenreligiösen/kirchlichen Bildung im Alter(n) entstehen, welche alten Menschen – in Ernstnahme derpolitischen, diakonischen, relationalen, der biografischen wie leiblich-seelisch-geistigen Dimensionendes Bildungsbegriffes – Gestaltungs-, Partizipations- und Möglichkeitsräume unter der Perspektive desTranszendenten eröffnet.In a "society of longevity", the field of geragogy (a scientific discipline concerned with educationaltheories, processes and methods for older adults) becomes increasingly significant in society as well asin the realms of religion and church. This article discusses geragogy in three different ways. The firstpart focuses on the education of older adults within the church, in so far as it is funded by church andespecially defined by the category "age". The second part discusses the educational efforts for thebenefit of old and elderly people in the area of denominational andragogy paying special attention tothe theoretical concept of education. The last part deals with religious geragogy pointing to the importanceof the religious-spiritual developments in older people's lives. It describes religious educationin older age as one sector of religious-spiritual adult education. These three accesses lead to theidea of a religious/ecclesiastical geragogy, which is sensitive to the plurality among the elderly. It willtake seriously the political, diaconal, relational, biographic as well as the physical-mental-spiritualdimensions of education and will open up spaces for participation and creative activities in the face ofthe divine.

Groundwork : setting the scenes / Graham Harvey and Opinderjit Kaur Takhar -- Clouds drifting through a landscape : glimpses of Rishikesh / Stephen Jacobs -- Ji Aya Nu : gurdwaras as refuge and target in the Islamophobic world order / Tavleen Kaur -- The role of place in shaping the practice and meaning of seva among Jain ascetics in Gujarat, India / Bindi Shah & N. Rajaram -- Aughars and their sense of 'place' / Jishnu Shankar -- Sense, place and the goddess : devotion to Kāli in cross-cultural perspective / Nicole Petersen -- The spirit of place : encounters with the Bauls and Fakirs of West Bengal / Denise Doyle & Tara Baoth Mooney -- Landscapes of enchantment and their usage : a critical case-study from the Khasi ethnic community, Northeast India / Margaret Lyngdoh -- Indigenous American quadripartitioned sense of place / Miguel Astor-Aguilera -- A tuna in every puna : photofilmic practices and tribal desires for environmental reinvigoration of freshwater springs / Natalie Robertson.

Challenging the dominant scholarly consensus that Nietzsche is simply an enemy of religion, Tyler Roberts examines the place of religion in Nietzsche's thought and Nietzsche's thought as a site of religion. Roberts argues that Nietzsche's conceptualization and cultivation of an affirmative self require that we interrogate the ambiguities that mark his criticisms of asceticism and mysticism. What emerges is a vision of Nietzsche's philosophy as the enactment of a spiritual quest informed by transfigured versions of religious tropes and practices. Nietzsche criticizes the ascetic hatred of the bo

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Importance of Religion To Understanding the Presidency -- Chapter 2: The Faith of George Washington -- Chapter 3: Thomas Jefferson and the Myth of Separation -- Chapter 4: Religion in the Life, Thought, and Presidency of James Madison -- Chapter 5: Lincoln's Political Religion and Religious Politics: Or, What Lincoln Teaches Us About the Proper Connection Between Religion and Politics -- Chapter 6: "We Must Put on the Armor of God": Harry Truman and the Cold War -- Chapter 7: Dwight D. Eisenhower: Civil Religion and the Cold War -- Chapter 8: Secular Icon or Catholic Hero?: Religion and the Presidency of John F. Kennedy -- Chapter 9: Jimmy Carter and the Politics of Faith -- Chapter 10: Ronald Reagan's Faith and Attack on Soviet Communism -- Chapter 11: The Religion of Bill Clinton -- Chapter 12: The Faith of George W. Bush: The Personal, Practical, and Political -- Chapter 13: President Barack Obama and His Faith -- Chapter 14: Donald J. Trump and the Enduring Religion Factor in US Elections.

In Plato's Laws is the earliest surviving fully developed cosmological argument. His influence on the philosophy of religion is wide ranging and this book examines both that and the influence of religion on Plato.Central to Plato's thought is the theory of forms, which holds that there exists a realm of forms, perfect ideals of which things in this world are but imperfect copies. In this book, originally published in 1959, Feibleman finds two diverse strands in Plato's philosophy: an idealism centered upon the Forms denying full ontological status to the realm of becoming, a