Anna Sun
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691155579
- eISBN:
- 9781400846085
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691155579.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
This introductory chapter talks about the confusions and controversies over the religious nature of Confucianism. It argues that the confusions come mainly from three sources. First, they come from ...
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This introductory chapter talks about the confusions and controversies over the religious nature of Confucianism. It argues that the confusions come mainly from three sources. First, they come from the conceptualization of Confucianism as a world religion at the end of the nineteenth century in Europe, which was a historical product of the emergence of the “world religions” paradigm in the West. Second, they are caused by the problematic way in which Confucianism—and Chinese religions in general—has been studied and represented by questions which are based on a Judeo-Christian framework that cannot capture the complexity of Chinese religious life. Finally, confusion arises from the often contradictory development of Confucianism in today's China.Less
This introductory chapter talks about the confusions and controversies over the religious nature of Confucianism. It argues that the confusions come mainly from three sources. First, they come from the conceptualization of Confucianism as a world religion at the end of the nineteenth century in Europe, which was a historical product of the emergence of the “world religions” paradigm in the West. Second, they are caused by the problematic way in which Confucianism—and Chinese religions in general—has been studied and represented by questions which are based on a Judeo-Christian framework that cannot capture the complexity of Chinese religious life. Finally, confusion arises from the often contradictory development of Confucianism in today's China.
Maurizio Viroli
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691142357
- eISBN:
- 9781400845514
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691142357.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter focuses on the decline of republican religion. In the late sixteenth century, while the Florentine experiment with republican government was on the wane, the conviction that Christian ...
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This chapter focuses on the decline of republican religion. In the late sixteenth century, while the Florentine experiment with republican government was on the wane, the conviction that Christian religion and republican principles were tightly interconnected was also in decline. In contrast, the idea that to serve the republic one must depart from God, or that to save one's soul one must put aside republican ideals, became more and more widely spread. Evidence of this decline can be found in Guicciardini's reflections in Le cose fiorentine (1528). He reports that the belief that God loves the freedom of peoples is commonly held in Florence, but he cautiously abstains from adopting that opinion as his own. While he censures neither confiding in God nor expressing gratitude to him, he exhorts people to be wise and hope for God's help as a reward for wisdom, rather than as a remedy for recklessness and madness.Less
This chapter focuses on the decline of republican religion. In the late sixteenth century, while the Florentine experiment with republican government was on the wane, the conviction that Christian religion and republican principles were tightly interconnected was also in decline. In contrast, the idea that to serve the republic one must depart from God, or that to save one's soul one must put aside republican ideals, became more and more widely spread. Evidence of this decline can be found in Guicciardini's reflections in Le cose fiorentine (1528). He reports that the belief that God loves the freedom of peoples is commonly held in Florence, but he cautiously abstains from adopting that opinion as his own. While he censures neither confiding in God nor expressing gratitude to him, he exhorts people to be wise and hope for God's help as a reward for wisdom, rather than as a remedy for recklessness and madness.
Maurizio Viroli
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691142357
- eISBN:
- 9781400845514
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691142357.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter considers elaborations of republican religion in Quattrocento political thought. Politicians, prophets, historians, and philosophers explained that the men who serve the common good ...
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This chapter considers elaborations of republican religion in Quattrocento political thought. Politicians, prophets, historians, and philosophers explained that the men who serve the common good render themselves godlike. Salutati, for instance, stated several times that a good Christian has a duty to serve his fatherland with all his energies. He also noted that charity toward the fatherland must comprise as well as surpass any other affection, bond, and interest. Bruni, who served as chancellor of the republic from 1410 to 1411, and again from 1427 until his death in 1444, also thought that the good Christian should be a good citizen, ready to serve his fatherland, because Christ's word does not conflict with a love of country.Less
This chapter considers elaborations of republican religion in Quattrocento political thought. Politicians, prophets, historians, and philosophers explained that the men who serve the common good render themselves godlike. Salutati, for instance, stated several times that a good Christian has a duty to serve his fatherland with all his energies. He also noted that charity toward the fatherland must comprise as well as surpass any other affection, bond, and interest. Bruni, who served as chancellor of the republic from 1410 to 1411, and again from 1427 until his death in 1444, also thought that the good Christian should be a good citizen, ready to serve his fatherland, because Christ's word does not conflict with a love of country.
Ennis Barrington Edmonds
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195133769
- eISBN:
- 9780199834167
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195133765.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
The emergence of Rastafari in Jamaica in the early 1930s must be viewed in the historical and social context of economic deprivation, political marginalization, and cultural alienation of masses of ...
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The emergence of Rastafari in Jamaica in the early 1930s must be viewed in the historical and social context of economic deprivation, political marginalization, and cultural alienation of masses of Jamaicans of African descent. Furthermore, Rastafari has deep historical roots in the tradition of resistance etched in Jamaican history by the enslaved and oppressed Africans. In this respect, Rastafari is the direct heir of the radicalism of African and Afro‐Christian religions and the African‐centeredness of Ethiopianism and Garveyism. With the crowning of Haile Selassie as emperor of Ethiopia in 1930, deprived and marginalized Jamaicans steeped in the tradition of resistance and informed by the liberation ideas of Ethiopianism and Garveyism acclaimed him as the black messiah, and thus started the Rastafarian movement. At the forefront of the movement was the charismatic Leonard P. Howell, who articulated the Rastafarian critique of Jamaican society and expressed and embodied the desire to return to the African homeland.Less
The emergence of Rastafari in Jamaica in the early 1930s must be viewed in the historical and social context of economic deprivation, political marginalization, and cultural alienation of masses of Jamaicans of African descent. Furthermore, Rastafari has deep historical roots in the tradition of resistance etched in Jamaican history by the enslaved and oppressed Africans. In this respect, Rastafari is the direct heir of the radicalism of African and Afro‐Christian religions and the African‐centeredness of Ethiopianism and Garveyism. With the crowning of Haile Selassie as emperor of Ethiopia in 1930, deprived and marginalized Jamaicans steeped in the tradition of resistance and informed by the liberation ideas of Ethiopianism and Garveyism acclaimed him as the black messiah, and thus started the Rastafarian movement. At the forefront of the movement was the charismatic Leonard P. Howell, who articulated the Rastafarian critique of Jamaican society and expressed and embodied the desire to return to the African homeland.
Maurizio Viroli
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691142357
- eISBN:
- 9781400845514
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691142357.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter considers theories on religious reform. Those show lived liberty as a religious faith felt a deep revulsion for the corruption of the clergy and the temporal power of the pope. The ...
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This chapter considers theories on religious reform. Those show lived liberty as a religious faith felt a deep revulsion for the corruption of the clergy and the temporal power of the pope. The former corrupted customs and extinguished civil virtues; the latter was a constant menace to republics and hindered the rule of law from within, through the vindication of exemptions and privileges. For this reason, republics intensely felt the need for a religious reform that would eradicate the church's temporal power and bring Christian religion back to its focus on poverty and charity. The advocates of religious reform drew inspiration and arguments from biblical and classical sources. The ideal of the twelfth-century religious movements was a reformation aimed at returning to the authentic form of the Christian religion.Less
This chapter considers theories on religious reform. Those show lived liberty as a religious faith felt a deep revulsion for the corruption of the clergy and the temporal power of the pope. The former corrupted customs and extinguished civil virtues; the latter was a constant menace to republics and hindered the rule of law from within, through the vindication of exemptions and privileges. For this reason, republics intensely felt the need for a religious reform that would eradicate the church's temporal power and bring Christian religion back to its focus on poverty and charity. The advocates of religious reform drew inspiration and arguments from biblical and classical sources. The ideal of the twelfth-century religious movements was a reformation aimed at returning to the authentic form of the Christian religion.
Anthony Heath, Konstanze Jacob, and Lindsay Richards
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780197266373
- eISBN:
- 9780191879562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266373.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter uses CIL4EU data to investigate strength of identification with the nation and with the ethnic group. It explores how these vary across ethnic and religious groups, generations, and ...
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This chapter uses CIL4EU data to investigate strength of identification with the nation and with the ethnic group. It explores how these vary across ethnic and religious groups, generations, and destination countries and how far these differences can be explained by processes of social integration on the one hand or perceptions of being excluded on the other hand. The key findings are that young people with a migration background are less likely than those without a migration background to identify strongly with their country of residence. This holds true more or less irrespective of their ethnic group or religion. Differences between European and non-European minority groups, and between Muslims and members of other non-Christian religions were generally modest in size, rarely reached statistical significance and were dwarfed by the overall gap between minorities and the majority.Less
This chapter uses CIL4EU data to investigate strength of identification with the nation and with the ethnic group. It explores how these vary across ethnic and religious groups, generations, and destination countries and how far these differences can be explained by processes of social integration on the one hand or perceptions of being excluded on the other hand. The key findings are that young people with a migration background are less likely than those without a migration background to identify strongly with their country of residence. This holds true more or less irrespective of their ethnic group or religion. Differences between European and non-European minority groups, and between Muslims and members of other non-Christian religions were generally modest in size, rarely reached statistical significance and were dwarfed by the overall gap between minorities and the majority.
David J. Jeremy
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201212
- eISBN:
- 9780191674839
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201212.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, History of Religion
Before the First World War, business Élites were closely tied to the Christian religion as the Victorian culture of these times was intensely religious. The tenets of Christianity are imposed upon ...
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Before the First World War, business Élites were closely tied to the Christian religion as the Victorian culture of these times was intensely religious. The tenets of Christianity are imposed upon infancy and the religious encounters came by various means and in differing degrees of intensity. This chapter discusses the most forceful agencies or religious influences that formed the business values, skills and networks of business Élites of the 1900s to 1960s. The foremost agencies discussed herein are the family, the school and the local church which are believed to have greatly inculcated Christian beliefs in their formative years. These religious influences are carried out and served as their framework and dogma in their business values, business perspective, skills and their social connections.Less
Before the First World War, business Élites were closely tied to the Christian religion as the Victorian culture of these times was intensely religious. The tenets of Christianity are imposed upon infancy and the religious encounters came by various means and in differing degrees of intensity. This chapter discusses the most forceful agencies or religious influences that formed the business values, skills and networks of business Élites of the 1900s to 1960s. The foremost agencies discussed herein are the family, the school and the local church which are believed to have greatly inculcated Christian beliefs in their formative years. These religious influences are carried out and served as their framework and dogma in their business values, business perspective, skills and their social connections.
Ross McKibbin
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198206729
- eISBN:
- 9780191677298
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206729.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Social History
This chapter examines the extent to which the English practised a religion and how far they had religious or quasi-religious beliefs. It looks at the experience of each of the significant Christian ...
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This chapter examines the extent to which the English practised a religion and how far they had religious or quasi-religious beliefs. It looks at the experience of each of the significant Christian churches over the period, how that experience differed between different churches, at the nature and meaning of ‘secularization’, and at the extent to which people held transcendent beliefs irrespective of church attendance or formal religious affiliation. It also considers the degree to which men and women differed in their beliefs. Tensions between the ‘religious’ and the ‘secular’ in English life were remarkable and, throughout these years, unresolved. The adherence of the majority of the English to religious rites of passage — birth, marriage, death — suggests that the influence of organised religion went considerably beyond its active membership.Less
This chapter examines the extent to which the English practised a religion and how far they had religious or quasi-religious beliefs. It looks at the experience of each of the significant Christian churches over the period, how that experience differed between different churches, at the nature and meaning of ‘secularization’, and at the extent to which people held transcendent beliefs irrespective of church attendance or formal religious affiliation. It also considers the degree to which men and women differed in their beliefs. Tensions between the ‘religious’ and the ‘secular’ in English life were remarkable and, throughout these years, unresolved. The adherence of the majority of the English to religious rites of passage — birth, marriage, death — suggests that the influence of organised religion went considerably beyond its active membership.
Robert T. Handy
- Published in print:
- 1976
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198269106
- eISBN:
- 9780191683572
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269106.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
The realities of war, the patterns of immigration and migration, the growth of giant cities and industries, and the ferment of intellectual revolution in the period from 1800 to 1920 influenced not ...
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The realities of war, the patterns of immigration and migration, the growth of giant cities and industries, and the ferment of intellectual revolution in the period from 1800 to 1920 influenced not only the denominations of the British Protestant background, but also strongly affected churches of other traditions. The expansion and crisis as well as the struggle for unity of Roman Catholicism are illustrated. The chapter also shows the diversity and unity of Lutheranism in America. It then emphasizes the Eastern Orthodoxy in the Western World. Some old and new smaller denominations and non-Christian religions are reported as well.Less
The realities of war, the patterns of immigration and migration, the growth of giant cities and industries, and the ferment of intellectual revolution in the period from 1800 to 1920 influenced not only the denominations of the British Protestant background, but also strongly affected churches of other traditions. The expansion and crisis as well as the struggle for unity of Roman Catholicism are illustrated. The chapter also shows the diversity and unity of Lutheranism in America. It then emphasizes the Eastern Orthodoxy in the Western World. Some old and new smaller denominations and non-Christian religions are reported as well.
Richard A. Muller
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199751846
- eISBN:
- 9780199914562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751846.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This is an examination of the reception of Calvin's thought in the works of seventeenth century Calvinist theologians. The chapter focuses on four ways in which Calvin's work was received: (1) the ...
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This is an examination of the reception of Calvin's thought in the works of seventeenth century Calvinist theologians. The chapter focuses on four ways in which Calvin's work was received: (1) the identity of Calvin and the character of his work, (2) referencing Calvin's Institutes and Commentaries, (3) theological uses of Calvin's work‐positive and polemical, (4) citation and use of Calvin by Herman Witsius and François Turrettini. The variety of ways in which Calvin's theology was cited and used shows that he was generally respected but not always followed, as theological Calvinism assumed a wide variety of shapes.Less
This is an examination of the reception of Calvin's thought in the works of seventeenth century Calvinist theologians. The chapter focuses on four ways in which Calvin's work was received: (1) the identity of Calvin and the character of his work, (2) referencing Calvin's Institutes and Commentaries, (3) theological uses of Calvin's work‐positive and polemical, (4) citation and use of Calvin by Herman Witsius and François Turrettini. The variety of ways in which Calvin's theology was cited and used shows that he was generally respected but not always followed, as theological Calvinism assumed a wide variety of shapes.
Courtney Bender, Wendy Cadge, Peggy Levitt, and David Smilde
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199938629
- eISBN:
- 9780199980758
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199938629.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This introductory chapter is structured as a discussion of four of the central empirical and analytic tendencies in the sociology of religion in the US, and as an account of what is going on at the ...
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This introductory chapter is structured as a discussion of four of the central empirical and analytic tendencies in the sociology of religion in the US, and as an account of what is going on at the edges where this core is being challenged. It poses a set of questions and provides a set of examples where the next generation of research might begin. What is revealed about the self, pluralism, or modernity when we look outside the United States or outside Christian settings where the center and the edges meet? What do we learn about how and where the religious is actually at work and what its role is when we unpack the assumptions about it embedded in these much used categories? What kinds of methods help bring to light these lacunae, and how do the insights they yield help us to re-center the sociology of religion? An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
This introductory chapter is structured as a discussion of four of the central empirical and analytic tendencies in the sociology of religion in the US, and as an account of what is going on at the edges where this core is being challenged. It poses a set of questions and provides a set of examples where the next generation of research might begin. What is revealed about the self, pluralism, or modernity when we look outside the United States or outside Christian settings where the center and the edges meet? What do we learn about how and where the religious is actually at work and what its role is when we unpack the assumptions about it embedded in these much used categories? What kinds of methods help bring to light these lacunae, and how do the insights they yield help us to re-center the sociology of religion? An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Gavin D’Costa
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- March 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190625795
- eISBN:
- 9780190625832
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625795.003.0017
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Vatican II’s Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate, marks a key shift in the Church’s pastoral approach to the non-Christian religions, one that has ...
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Vatican II’s Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate, marks a key shift in the Church’s pastoral approach to the non-Christian religions, one that has raised numerous doctrinal debates on the status of these religions. Proceeding in three parts, this essay first examines the text of NA, read together with Lumen Gentium 14–16, in light of a key doctrinal question often raised by these texts: what is the salvific status of the non-Christian religions? Granted salvation occurs outside the bounds of the visible Church, does this occur through or despite these religions? Second, the essay hones in on the discussion surrounding NA’s teaching on the Jewish people, with a particular focus on the question of the status of their covenant, as too the sensitive question of mission to the Jews. Third and finally, this essay discusses NA’s teaching on Islam, the Qu’ran, and Muhammad.Less
Vatican II’s Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate, marks a key shift in the Church’s pastoral approach to the non-Christian religions, one that has raised numerous doctrinal debates on the status of these religions. Proceeding in three parts, this essay first examines the text of NA, read together with Lumen Gentium 14–16, in light of a key doctrinal question often raised by these texts: what is the salvific status of the non-Christian religions? Granted salvation occurs outside the bounds of the visible Church, does this occur through or despite these religions? Second, the essay hones in on the discussion surrounding NA’s teaching on the Jewish people, with a particular focus on the question of the status of their covenant, as too the sensitive question of mission to the Jews. Third and finally, this essay discusses NA’s teaching on Islam, the Qu’ran, and Muhammad.
Lenski Noel
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520233324
- eISBN:
- 9780520928534
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520233324.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
This chapter reports Valentinian's and Valens' attitudes toward pagans as a unified whole. The dramatic magic and treason trials that have often been used to brand both emperors as persecutors of ...
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This chapter reports Valentinian's and Valens' attitudes toward pagans as a unified whole. The dramatic magic and treason trials that have often been used to brand both emperors as persecutors of pagans are also explored. The chapter then turns to Christian religion to see how Valens differed from his brother, primarily because of the differing circumstances in which the two operated. Valens was present at many of the magic trials in his domain, Valentinian presided only from a distance. It describes Valens' baptism by the Homoians at the beginning of his reign and the influence this had on his subsequent religious. Next, it addresses Valens' handling of the Arian crisis, which can be broken into three phases. The sudden victory of Homoousianism is unlikely to have occurred had Valens not undertaken his persecutions and above all had he not been dishonored in the manner of his death.Less
This chapter reports Valentinian's and Valens' attitudes toward pagans as a unified whole. The dramatic magic and treason trials that have often been used to brand both emperors as persecutors of pagans are also explored. The chapter then turns to Christian religion to see how Valens differed from his brother, primarily because of the differing circumstances in which the two operated. Valens was present at many of the magic trials in his domain, Valentinian presided only from a distance. It describes Valens' baptism by the Homoians at the beginning of his reign and the influence this had on his subsequent religious. Next, it addresses Valens' handling of the Arian crisis, which can be broken into three phases. The sudden victory of Homoousianism is unlikely to have occurred had Valens not undertaken his persecutions and above all had he not been dishonored in the manner of his death.
Gerald R. McDermott and Harold A. Netland
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- June 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199751839
- eISBN:
- 9780199376605
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751839.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Only God knows God fully, and human beings can know God only to the degree that God reveals himself to them. This chapter takes up the question of what that means, especially the question of whether ...
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Only God knows God fully, and human beings can know God only to the degree that God reveals himself to them. This chapter takes up the question of what that means, especially the question of whether there is revelation by the tri-personal God among non-Christian religions. The chapter begins with a definition of revelation, then considers media and modes of revelation, the nature of revelation, and the relation of revelation to the Bible. After touching briefly on what the Bible has to say about knowledge of God outside of Israel, the chapter takes up the question of revelation in the religions.Less
Only God knows God fully, and human beings can know God only to the degree that God reveals himself to them. This chapter takes up the question of what that means, especially the question of whether there is revelation by the tri-personal God among non-Christian religions. The chapter begins with a definition of revelation, then considers media and modes of revelation, the nature of revelation, and the relation of revelation to the Bible. After touching briefly on what the Bible has to say about knowledge of God outside of Israel, the chapter takes up the question of revelation in the religions.
Curtiss Paul DeYoung
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195152159
- eISBN:
- 9780199849659
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152159.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Howard Thurman, who played a significant role in racial reconciliation in the United States during the period between the 1940s and the 1970s, was included in the group of African American religious ...
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Howard Thurman, who played a significant role in racial reconciliation in the United States during the period between the 1940s and the 1970s, was included in the group of African American religious leaders who journeyed to India for a pilgrimage in 1935. One of the most important highlights of this trip involved a conversation with Mohandas Gandhi regarding race relations in the United States and how even in the church, the color bar still had influence and power. Thurman then realized that the color bar was honored in the Christian religion. This chapter explores some of the efforts and experimentations made to integrate gradually racial reconciliation and multiracial congregations, with Howard Thurman's insights being used as a starting point.Less
Howard Thurman, who played a significant role in racial reconciliation in the United States during the period between the 1940s and the 1970s, was included in the group of African American religious leaders who journeyed to India for a pilgrimage in 1935. One of the most important highlights of this trip involved a conversation with Mohandas Gandhi regarding race relations in the United States and how even in the church, the color bar still had influence and power. Thurman then realized that the color bar was honored in the Christian religion. This chapter explores some of the efforts and experimentations made to integrate gradually racial reconciliation and multiracial congregations, with Howard Thurman's insights being used as a starting point.
Norbert J. Hofmann and Joseph Sievers
Philip A Cunningham (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823228058
- eISBN:
- 9780823237111
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823228058.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This book makes available in fifteen chapters English essays that mark the fortieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian ...
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This book makes available in fifteen chapters English essays that mark the fortieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate). Surveying Vatican dialogues and documents, the chapters explore theological questions posed by the Shoah and the Catholic recognition of the Jewish people's covenantal life with God. Featuring essays by Vatican officials, leading rabbis, diplomats, and Catholic and Jewish scholars, the book discusses the nature of Christian–Jewish relations and the need to remember their conflicted and often tragic history, aspects of a Christian theology of Judaism, the Catholic–Jewish dialogue since the Shoah, and the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Israel. The book includes an essay by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, and documents on the rapprochement between the Church and the Jewish people.Less
This book makes available in fifteen chapters English essays that mark the fortieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate). Surveying Vatican dialogues and documents, the chapters explore theological questions posed by the Shoah and the Catholic recognition of the Jewish people's covenantal life with God. Featuring essays by Vatican officials, leading rabbis, diplomats, and Catholic and Jewish scholars, the book discusses the nature of Christian–Jewish relations and the need to remember their conflicted and often tragic history, aspects of a Christian theology of Judaism, the Catholic–Jewish dialogue since the Shoah, and the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Israel. The book includes an essay by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, and documents on the rapprochement between the Church and the Jewish people.
Peter Carnley
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198267560
- eISBN:
- 9780191683299
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198267560.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ is absolutely central to the Christian religion. This book deals critically with the attempts of the world's leading theologians over the past 100 years to ...
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Faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ is absolutely central to the Christian religion. This book deals critically with the attempts of the world's leading theologians over the past 100 years to handle the resurrection of Christ conceptually. In the second half of the book a religiously positive and constructive attempt is made to articulate a logically coherent epistemology of faith in the resurrection, which respects the authority of the scriptural traditions as they are now understood and assessed by contemporary theologians whilst at the same time being true to the transcendental dimensions of the resurrection as a divine mystery, and to contemporary Christian experience of the Easter Christ.Less
Faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ is absolutely central to the Christian religion. This book deals critically with the attempts of the world's leading theologians over the past 100 years to handle the resurrection of Christ conceptually. In the second half of the book a religiously positive and constructive attempt is made to articulate a logically coherent epistemology of faith in the resurrection, which respects the authority of the scriptural traditions as they are now understood and assessed by contemporary theologians whilst at the same time being true to the transcendental dimensions of the resurrection as a divine mystery, and to contemporary Christian experience of the Easter Christ.
Joanne Pearson
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719062032
- eISBN:
- 9781781700150
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719062032.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter provides a historical understanding of the recent past, looking at the way in which modern-day Witches, Wiccans, and Pagans have viewed the witch trials of the past. The idea that early ...
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This chapter provides a historical understanding of the recent past, looking at the way in which modern-day Witches, Wiccans, and Pagans have viewed the witch trials of the past. The idea that early modern witchcraft was a relic of an organized pre-Christian religion, consciously divorced from Christianity, remains remarkably prevalent despite having long ago been comprehensively discredited. During the middle decades of the twentieth century, reputable historians promoted the myth of the pagan witch. However, as the pagan hypothesis crumbled, it was taken up by parts of the emergent women's and pagan movements as a symbol of the historical persecution of women and religious dissidents, and also seized upon by some evangelical Christians as evidence that witchcraft was the product of anti-Christian forces. But this interpretation too is passing. The findings reveal an interesting and reflective variety of views about the relationship (or lack of it) between modern paganism and the witches of the past. As the saga of the Pendle cross indicates, it is the evangelical critics of paganism who are more inclined to see in it an organized continuity with the past. In the twentieth century, as in the seventeenth, witchcraft was as much the creation of its enemies as of its practitioners.Less
This chapter provides a historical understanding of the recent past, looking at the way in which modern-day Witches, Wiccans, and Pagans have viewed the witch trials of the past. The idea that early modern witchcraft was a relic of an organized pre-Christian religion, consciously divorced from Christianity, remains remarkably prevalent despite having long ago been comprehensively discredited. During the middle decades of the twentieth century, reputable historians promoted the myth of the pagan witch. However, as the pagan hypothesis crumbled, it was taken up by parts of the emergent women's and pagan movements as a symbol of the historical persecution of women and religious dissidents, and also seized upon by some evangelical Christians as evidence that witchcraft was the product of anti-Christian forces. But this interpretation too is passing. The findings reveal an interesting and reflective variety of views about the relationship (or lack of it) between modern paganism and the witches of the past. As the saga of the Pendle cross indicates, it is the evangelical critics of paganism who are more inclined to see in it an organized continuity with the past. In the twentieth century, as in the seventeenth, witchcraft was as much the creation of its enemies as of its practitioners.
Todd M. Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190697624
- eISBN:
- 9780190943073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190697624.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter analyses Norman Anderson’s contribution to the reassessment and revision of the evangelical missionary engagement with Islam in the 1950s. It focuses on his participation in multiple ...
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This chapter analyses Norman Anderson’s contribution to the reassessment and revision of the evangelical missionary engagement with Islam in the 1950s. It focuses on his participation in multiple influential Christian missionary conferences concerned with articulating general principles to guide evangelistic outreach to Muslims and compares his theological conclusions with those of other key Christian missionary thinkers such as Kenneth Cragg. While Anderson differed with Cragg on many points, they were both attempting to help formulate a theologically grounded response to the growth of nationalist movements, the apparent revival of non-Christian religions and the decline of European imperial influence.Less
This chapter analyses Norman Anderson’s contribution to the reassessment and revision of the evangelical missionary engagement with Islam in the 1950s. It focuses on his participation in multiple influential Christian missionary conferences concerned with articulating general principles to guide evangelistic outreach to Muslims and compares his theological conclusions with those of other key Christian missionary thinkers such as Kenneth Cragg. While Anderson differed with Cragg on many points, they were both attempting to help formulate a theologically grounded response to the growth of nationalist movements, the apparent revival of non-Christian religions and the decline of European imperial influence.
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz and Eduardo Mendieta
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823241354
- eISBN:
- 9780823241392
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823241354.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This anthology gathers the work of three generations of Latina/o theologians and philosopher who have taken up the task of transforming their respective disciplines from the standpoint of liberation ...
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This anthology gathers the work of three generations of Latina/o theologians and philosopher who have taken up the task of transforming their respective disciplines from the standpoint of liberation and what has been called the “decolonial turn” in social theory, theology, and philosophy. This collection is focuses on the different ways in which Latina/o thinkers, activists, and public intellectuals are producing knowledge that addresses the unique social location of Latinas/os in the US. Instead of continuing to be represented, this group of scholars show the unsuspecting and original ways in which Latina/o locations in the US can be generative places for the development of new matrixes of knowledge. The book, thus, articulates a new point of departure for the self-understanding of not simply Latina/os, but also US citizens in this new age of post-colonialism and globalization.Less
This anthology gathers the work of three generations of Latina/o theologians and philosopher who have taken up the task of transforming their respective disciplines from the standpoint of liberation and what has been called the “decolonial turn” in social theory, theology, and philosophy. This collection is focuses on the different ways in which Latina/o thinkers, activists, and public intellectuals are producing knowledge that addresses the unique social location of Latinas/os in the US. Instead of continuing to be represented, this group of scholars show the unsuspecting and original ways in which Latina/o locations in the US can be generative places for the development of new matrixes of knowledge. The book, thus, articulates a new point of departure for the self-understanding of not simply Latina/os, but also US citizens in this new age of post-colonialism and globalization.
