Race -- chapter 1. What you should know about the history of race / Sylvester A. Johnson -- chapter 2. Religion and the racial status quo / Corey D. B. Walker -- chapter 3. Religion's challenge to racism / Paul Harvey -- chapter 4. Ongoing issues and concerns / Jennifer Harvey -- Gender -- chapter 5. What you should know about the history of gender / Monica R. Miller -- chapter 6. Religion and the gender status quo / Mary McClintock Fulkerson -- chapter 7. Religion's challenge to gender discrimination / Susan Abraham -- chapter 8. Ongoing issues and concerns / Michelle M. Lelwica -- Class -- chapter 9. What you should know about the history of class / Keri Day -- chapter 10. Religion and the class status quo / James W. Perkinson -- chapter 11. Religion's challenge to classism / Jason A. Springs -- chapter 12. Ongoing issues and concerns / Joerg Rieger -- Environment -- chapter 13. What you should know about the history of environmentalism / Anne Marie Dalton -- chapter 14. Religion and the human's relationship to the world / Roger S. Gottlieb -- chapter 15. Religious ethics of food and water / Christiana Z. Peppard -- chapter 16. Ongoing issues and concerns / Lois Ann Lorentzen -- Humans in the future -- chapter 17. Transhumanism and the study of religion / Clay Farris Naff -- chapter 18. Futurism and the study of religion / Laura Ammon.
/ Table of Contents -- I Zur Theorie der Religion / Sociological Theories of Religion -- Ursprung, Funktion und Gehalt der Religion -- Asceticism and Mysticism. A Contribution towards the Sociology of Faith -- Systemanalyse und »Religiöse Bedürfnisse« -- Ursachen der Bewahrung der Religiosität des Kolchose-Bauern -- Religious Motives in Religious Movements -- II Religion und Sprache / Religion and Language -- In the Beginning was the Word. The Relationship of Language to Social Organization in Spiritualist Churches -- Some Forms of Religious Discourse -- The Function of Dialects in the Religious Life of the Bornholm Inhabitants -- Protestant Preachers in the Prophetic Line.
chapter 1. Accessing the sacred through the five senses / Ori Z. Soltes -- chapter 2. Beauty and religion / Bryan S. Rennie -- chapter 3. The human figure in religious art / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- chapter 4. The communicative agency of religious architecture / Thomas Barrie -- chapter 5. Dance as religious studies / Angela Yarber -- chapter 6. The material religion of film / Sheila J. Nayar -- chapter 7. Music and sound as an entry point into religious studies / Jason C. Bivins -- chapter 8. Religion, evolving media, and distant suffering / Jolyon Mitchell, Joshua Ray -- chapter 9. Performing devotion as a mode of religious study / Jill Stevenson -- chapter 10. Photography and religion / Rachel McBride Lindsey -- chapter 11. Sacred place / Crispin Paine -- chapter 12. Relics and rituals / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- chapter 13. Objects of religious belief and practice / Leonard Norman Pimiano -- chapter 14. Beauty is the color og truth / Ronald Y. Nakasone -- chapter 15. Exhibiting the sacred / Rowena Loverance -- chapter 16. Exhibiting Christian art / Jennifer Sliwka -- chapter 17. Exhibiting outsider art / Jerry Cullum -- chapter 18. Reviewing the religious in art / Menachem Wecker.
The liberal enlightenment as well as the more radical left have both traditionally opposed religion as a reactionary force in politics, a view culminating in an identification of the politics of religion as fundamentalist theocracy. But recently a number of thinkers-Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and in particular Simon Critchley-have begun to explore a more productive engagement of the religious and the political in which religion features as a possible or even necessary form of human emancipation. The papers in this collection, deriving from a workshop held on and with Simon Critchley at the University of Texas at San Antonio in February 2010, take up the ways in which religion's encounter with politics transforms not only politics but also religion itself, molding it into various religions of politics, including not just heretical religious metaphysics, but also what Critchley describes as non-metaphysical religion, the faith of the faithless. Starting from Critchley's own genealogy of Pauline faith, the articles in this collection explore and defend some of the religions of politics and their implications. Costica Bradatan teases out the implications of Critchley's substitution of humor for tragedy as the vehicle for the minimal self-distancing required for any politics. Jill Stauffer compares Critchley's non-metaphysical religiosity with Charles Taylor's account of Christianity. Alistair Welchman unpacks the political theology of the border in terms of god's timeless act of creation. Anne O'Byrne explores the subtle dialectic between mores and morality in Rousseau's political ethics. Roland Champagne sees a kind non-metaphysical religion in Arendt's category of the political pariah. Davide Panagia presents Critchley's ethics of exposure as the basis for a non-metaphysical political bond. Philip Quadrio wonders about the political ramifications of Critchley's own 'mystical anarchism' and Tina Chanter re-reads the primal site in the Western tradition at which the political and the religious intersect, the Antigone story, side-stepping philosophical interpretations of the story (dominated by Hegel's reading) by means of a series of post-colonial re-imaginings of the play. The collection concludes with an interview with Simon Critchley taking up the themes of the workshop in the light of more recent political events: the Arab Spring and the rise and fall of the Occupy movement. Alistair Welchman is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio who is interested in questions of naturalism and materialism, especially but not exclusively in relation to French and German philosophy since Kant. In addition he works as a translator, mostly of Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation (for Cambridge) but also of Salomon Maimon's Essay on Transcendental Philosophy (Continuum) and has a growing interest in political questions stemming from his situation on the US-Mexico border.
Preliminary Material /Lori G. Beaman and Leo Van Arragon -- Introduction /Leo Van Arragon and Lori G. Beaman -- Public Religion in an Age of Ambivalence: Recovering Religious Literacy after a Century of Secularism /Adam Dinham -- Religion and Education in Ontario Public Education: Contested Borders and Uneasy Truces /Leo Van Arragon -- Minority Faiths and Religious Education Policy: The Case of Australian and American Jews, 1945–1980 /Damon Mayrl -- Religion as a Separate Area of Study in India /Asha Mukherjee -- What is Indian 'Religion'? How Should it Be Taught? /Sonia Sikka -- What Does Conceptualisation of Religion Have to Do with Religion in Education? /Geir Skeie -- Law's Entanglements: Resolving Questions of Religion and Education /Lori G. Beaman , Lauren L. Forbes and Christine L. Cusack -- From Religion to Spirituality in Education: Towards a Political Regulation of Spirituality? /Solange Lefebvre -- The Spaces in Between: Religion, Sexual Identity, Media and Education in Ontario /Heather Shipley -- Neutrality in Public School Religion Education: Theory and Politics /Bruce Grelle -- Religion, the Elephant in the Asia-Focused Australian School Room /Catherine Byrne -- Religion in Schools: A Human Rights Contribution to the Debate /Alison Mawhinney -- Who Speaks for Religion? /Pamela Dickey Young -- Lagging Behind Other Nations: The Religions in School Debate in Australia /Anna Halafoff and Kim Lam -- Religion and the Cultures of Higher Education: Student Christianity in the UK /Mathew Guest -- Impartiality of Teachers in Quebec's Non-Denominational Ethics and Religious Culture Program /Stéphanie Gravel -- Index /Lori G. Beaman and Leo Van Arragon.
Der Verfasser arbeitet zunächst Grundzüge eines sozialwissenschaftlichen Zugang zur Religion heraus. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird die "klassische Phase" der Religionssoziologie mit Max Webers Analyse der abendländischen Entwicklung und Durkheims "heiliger Gesellschaft" dargestellt. Es schließt sich ein Überblick über die Soziologie der Kirchen und der Zivilreligion sowie über die "neoklassische" Religionssoziologie an (Berger, Luckmann, Luhmann). In einem abschließenden Teil werden Bestand und Entwicklung gegenwärtiger Religiosität diskutiert. Hier geht es um die Vielfalt religiöser Organisationen, Esoterik, Fundamentalismus, Individualisierung, Medienreligiosität und die Globalisierung der Religion. (ICE)