Peter Collins

Reading Religion in Text and Context (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections of Faith and Practice in Religious Materials
Redaktion: Arweck, Elisabeth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

To what extent is religion inherently textual? What might the term 'textual' mean in relation to religious faith and practice? These are the two key questions addressed by the eleven thought-provoking essays collected in this volume. Accounts of the content and structure of sacred texts are commonplace. The rather more adventurous aim of this book is to disclose (within the context of religion) the various ways in which meaning can be read of more or less obviously sacred writing and from discourses such as the body, the built and natural environment, drama and ritual.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351906494
• Artikelnr.: 48418620

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Arweck is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick, UK. She is Editor (with Peter Clarke) of the Journal of Contemporary Religion and has published Researching New Religious Movements: Responses and Redefinitions (2006), Theorizing Faith: The Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Ritual (2002) with Martin Stringer, and New Religious Movements in Western Europe: An Annotated Bibliography (1997) with Peter Clarke. Peter Collins is Lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University, UK. His recent publications include Religion, Identity and Change: Perspectives on Global Transformations (2004), and Locating the Field: Space, Place and Context in Anthropology (2006), both with Simon Coleman.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword, James A. Beckford
Reading Religion in Text and Context: an introduction, Peter Collins and Elisabeth Arweck
Catholicism and freedom: Dignitatis humanae - the text and its reception, James Sweeney
The left behind series as sacred text?, Malcolm Gold
Secularization: human rights and sacred texts, Paul Chambers
Relics and 'Baraka': devotion to the Prophet Muhammad among Sufis in Nottingham, UK, Ian G. Williams
Text and context in Sikkim, India, Vibha Arora
Making a joyful noise: the multiple forms and functions of music in modern revivalism, Nancy A. Schaefer
Reinventing Melchizedek: interpretations of traditional religious texts in the seminary context, Ewan Ingleby
Reading religious architecture, Peter Collins
Textuality and embodiment among charismatic Christians, Simon Coleman
The case of the left hand: the location of religion in an everyday text, Kim Knott
Index.