Wayne Hudson

Beyond Religion and the Secular (eBook, PDF)

Creative Spiritual Movements and their Relevance to Political, Social and Cultural Reform

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Produktbeschreibung

Deploying a distinctive disaggregative approach to the study of 'religion', this volume shows that spiritual movements with extensive counterfactual beliefs have been much more creative than one might expect.

Specifically, Wayne Hudson explores the creativity of six spiritual movements: the Bahá'ís, a Persian movement; Soka Gakkai, a Japanese movement; Ananda Marga and the Brahma Kumaris, two reformed Hindu movements; and two controversial American churches, The Church Universal and Triumphant and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most of these movements have counterintuitive features that have led Western scholars making Enlightenment assumptions to dismiss them as irrational and/or inconsequential. However, this book reveals that these movements have responded to modernity in ways that are creative and practical, resulting in a wide range of social, educational and cultural initiatives.

Building on research surrounding the ways in which spiritual movements engage in cultural productions, this book takes the international research in a new direction by exploring the utopian intentionality such cultural productions reveal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350331723
• Artikelnr.: 66009233

Autorenporträt

Wayne Hudson is Adjunct Research Professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rethinking the Terrain 2. The Bahá'ís: Prosociality and Global
Civilisation 3. Soka Gakkai and Cosmic Humanism 4. Ananda Marga and Bengali
Futurism 5. Brahma Kumaris: Between Apocalypse and Modernism 6. The Church
Universal and Triumphant: Democratic Fictionality 7. The Latter-day Saints:
Charismatic Restoration 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index