Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change : : Eastern Europe and Latin America / / ed. by Luther Martin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Antes, Peter,; Bianchi, Ugo,; Casadio, Giovanni,; Danecki, Janusz,; Geertz, Armin W.,; Hackett, Rosalind I. J.,; Horyna, Břetislav,; Jensen Sinding, Jeppe,; Khan, Abrahim Η.,; Lawson, Ε. Thomas,; Lease, Gary,; Lovász, Irén,; Marcos, Sylvia,; Martin, Luther Η.,; Masferrer Kan, Elio,; Mickulsky, Dimitry,; Paper, Jordan,; Papoušek, Dalibor,; Porter Nevling, Barbara,; Smolyakov, Leonid J.,; Strenski, Ivan,; Szmyd, Jan,; Vasquez, Irene S.,; Versnel, Η. S.,; Wiehe, Donald,; Wright, Pablo G.,; Zotz, Vladimir,
• HerausgeberIn: Martin, Luther,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society , 33
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (457 p.)
• Other title: I-VI --; Preface --; Introduction --; Historical models --; Gods' statues as a tool of Assyrian political policy: Esarhaddon's return of Marduk to Babylon --; Religious projection: A Hellenistic instance --; Mani versus Mazdak: The prophet and his king in pre-Islamic Iran --; Religious transformations and socio-political change: A western eurocentric paradigm? --; Eastern Europe --; The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture --; Personal spiritual orientations and religiousness in (former) Soviet society --; John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev: The process of globalization in multidimensional comparison --; The analogy of the proportionalitas: The coherence between socio-political development and the development of religion in the new socio-cultural reality of Czechoslovakia --; National history, culture and the process of religious change --; Religion and revolution: A Hungarian pilgrimage in Rumania --; Muslim fundamentalism in Soviet Central Asia: A social perspective --; The Muslims of Poland: A religious minority in transition --; Delusion and illusion, false hopes and failed dreams: Religion, the churches and East Germany's 1989 "November revolution" --; Theology of liberation and the Protestant monastery of Loccum in Germany --; Opposition within affinity between religion and politics with reference to Golden Age Denmark and Brazil --; Latin America --; Religious transformations and social change in Latin America --; In the beginning there were the Canaries ...: The forgotten purgatory en route to the new world --; Missionary activity in Latin America: Confession manuals and indigenous eroticism --; Iconography, intersubjectivity, and anthropological experience: A Toba shamanic tree --; Political culture, religious culture and sacrifice --; Theoretical and methodological implications --; Theories on tradition and change in sociology, anthropology, history, and the history of religions --; Method, theory, and the subject matter --; What sort of "reality" is religion? --; The symbolics of power discourse among contemporary religious groups in West Africa --; Religious studies as a saving grace? From Goodenough to South Africa --; Conclusion --; Methodological conceits and theoretical opportunities: Reflections on the level of analysis appropriate for explaining socio-cultural phenomena --; List of Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110884203; 9783110638110; 9783110305630
• ISSN: 1437-5370
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110884203
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Luther Martin.