Wesley A. Kort
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195143423
- eISBN:
- 9780199834389
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195143426.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature
The argument of this book is that a primary goal in the work of C. S. Lewis is to articulate a Christian worldview. Lewis based this project on his positive view of culture, nature, and human ...
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The argument of this book is that a primary goal in the work of C. S. Lewis is to articulate a Christian worldview. Lewis based this project on his positive view of culture, nature, and human relations. He addresses deficiencies in modern culture and the largely distorted relations of modernity to nature in order to restore culture as a supportive base for a Christian worldview. The book offers discussions of seven interests in Lewis's work: retrieval, reenchantment, houses, culture, character, pleasure, and celebration. The topics provide not only an analysis of Lewis's work but also a basis upon which readers who want to construct a worldview here and now can draw inspiration and direction from him.Less
The argument of this book is that a primary goal in the work of C. S. Lewis is to articulate a Christian worldview. Lewis based this project on his positive view of culture, nature, and human relations. He addresses deficiencies in modern culture and the largely distorted relations of modernity to nature in order to restore culture as a supportive base for a Christian worldview. The book offers discussions of seven interests in Lewis's work: retrieval, reenchantment, houses, culture, character, pleasure, and celebration. The topics provide not only an analysis of Lewis's work but also a basis upon which readers who want to construct a worldview here and now can draw inspiration and direction from him.
Douglas V. Porpora
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195134919
- eISBN:
- 9780199834563
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195134915.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This book is at once both a work of sociology and a work of ethical and religious philosophy. As a work of sociology, it contributes to the ongoing debate over secularization by documenting an ...
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This book is at once both a work of sociology and a work of ethical and religious philosophy. As a work of sociology, it contributes to the ongoing debate over secularization by documenting an alienation from the sacred at the level of emotion. Shows that even many religious Americans are emotionally estranged from the God they say they believe in, from any larger moral purpose, from the very meaning of life itself. As a work of moral and religious philosophy within a broad communitarian tradition, it calls our attention from moral procedure to moral purpose or moral idealism. Argues that moral purpose and coherent personal identity only return to us when we emotionally and defensibly reconnect with the cosmos at some sacred level. It accordingly makes an appeal for our reenchantment or resacralization of the world, for our self‐critical reorientation toward ultimate truth.Less
This book is at once both a work of sociology and a work of ethical and religious philosophy. As a work of sociology, it contributes to the ongoing debate over secularization by documenting an alienation from the sacred at the level of emotion. Shows that even many religious Americans are emotionally estranged from the God they say they believe in, from any larger moral purpose, from the very meaning of life itself. As a work of moral and religious philosophy within a broad communitarian tradition, it calls our attention from moral procedure to moral purpose or moral idealism. Argues that moral purpose and coherent personal identity only return to us when we emotionally and defensibly reconnect with the cosmos at some sacred level. It accordingly makes an appeal for our reenchantment or resacralization of the world, for our self‐critical reorientation toward ultimate truth.
Wesley A. Kort
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195143423
- eISBN:
- 9780199834389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195143426.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature
Disenchantment is a condition resulting from the unwarranted elevation of scientific and rational strategies of analysis to the level of determining the general position of people in the world. This ...
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Disenchantment is a condition resulting from the unwarranted elevation of scientific and rational strategies of analysis to the level of determining the general position of people in the world. This dissolves the basic relations people have with their world and allows for the exercise of power and extension of self‐interest. He counters with proposals that would allow for the reenchantment of the world.Less
Disenchantment is a condition resulting from the unwarranted elevation of scientific and rational strategies of analysis to the level of determining the general position of people in the world. This dissolves the basic relations people have with their world and allows for the exercise of power and extension of self‐interest. He counters with proposals that would allow for the reenchantment of the world.
Thomas J. Csordas
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195393408
- eISBN:
- 9780199894390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393408.003.0017
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement, originating in the United States, centered in Rome, Italy, and spread as wide as India, Brazil, and Nigeria, invites reconsideration of center-periphery, ...
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The Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement, originating in the United States, centered in Rome, Italy, and spread as wide as India, Brazil, and Nigeria, invites reconsideration of center-periphery, local-global in the globalization of religion. Modern communication and travel technologies spread divine healing and deliverance practices. Contrary impulses toward universal culture and postmodern cultural fragmentation layer hybridity upon syncretism upon synthesis, as embodiment figures in reenchantment or resacralization of the world. In India, locally contextualized variations on pentecostal healing exhibit dislocations and juxtapositions of Hindu and Catholic elements, exerting influence from periphery to center of global culture. In Brazil, Renewalists exhibit virtuosity in manipulating electronic media to interact with Marian traditions, liberation theology, Kardecist spiritism, and Afro-Brazilian religions. In Nigeria, Renewal builds upon and transforms meanings of indigenous practices of traditional religions and Islam, emphasizing restitution as antidote to materialism (challenging generalizations about “Prosperity”), and spiritual warfare through deliverance from ancestral spirits.Less
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement, originating in the United States, centered in Rome, Italy, and spread as wide as India, Brazil, and Nigeria, invites reconsideration of center-periphery, local-global in the globalization of religion. Modern communication and travel technologies spread divine healing and deliverance practices. Contrary impulses toward universal culture and postmodern cultural fragmentation layer hybridity upon syncretism upon synthesis, as embodiment figures in reenchantment or resacralization of the world. In India, locally contextualized variations on pentecostal healing exhibit dislocations and juxtapositions of Hindu and Catholic elements, exerting influence from periphery to center of global culture. In Brazil, Renewalists exhibit virtuosity in manipulating electronic media to interact with Marian traditions, liberation theology, Kardecist spiritism, and Afro-Brazilian religions. In Nigeria, Renewal builds upon and transforms meanings of indigenous practices of traditional religions and Islam, emphasizing restitution as antidote to materialism (challenging generalizations about “Prosperity”), and spiritual warfare through deliverance from ancestral spirits.
Michael Taussig
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226684581
- eISBN:
- 9780226698700
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226698700.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
The author examines the notion of catastrophe through engagements with Foucault and Bataille, Celine, Weil, and contemporary references to Trumpism. He also explores his own "shamanic" approach. He ...
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The author examines the notion of catastrophe through engagements with Foucault and Bataille, Celine, Weil, and contemporary references to Trumpism. He also explores his own "shamanic" approach. He also addresses questions of disenchantment vs re-enchantment.Less
The author examines the notion of catastrophe through engagements with Foucault and Bataille, Celine, Weil, and contemporary references to Trumpism. He also explores his own "shamanic" approach. He also addresses questions of disenchantment vs re-enchantment.
David J. Neumann
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469648637
- eISBN:
- 9781469648651
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648637.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This book explores Paramahansa Yogananda’s ministry as an Indian, an American, and the founder of a global religious organization. As a figure often associated with the origins of yoga in the United ...
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This book explores Paramahansa Yogananda’s ministry as an Indian, an American, and the founder of a global religious organization. As a figure often associated with the origins of yoga in the United States, he has been curiously neglected in the scholarly literature. Yogananda’s ministry was fueled by a religious nationalism that led him to conclude that Hinduism could uniquely fill the spiritual void in “the West.” Rejecting both exclusivism and pluralism, he embraced an inclusivism that viewed Hinduism as the ultimate expression of truth. He illuminates the nature of religious entrepreneurialism as he invented a variety of products to keep his ministry financially viable. His ministry reveals how missionary Hinduism’s success hinged on a deep understanding of Christian belief and practice; apart from his famed Autobiography, Yogananda’s longest text was a commentary on the New Testament Gospels, which explained how Jesus was a yogi. Yogananda’s life story demonstrates the connectedness of spirituality and place. He began to gain traction in his ministry only after he found Southern California. Yogananda “reenchanted” the modern world through his instruction and his claims to divine authority.Less
This book explores Paramahansa Yogananda’s ministry as an Indian, an American, and the founder of a global religious organization. As a figure often associated with the origins of yoga in the United States, he has been curiously neglected in the scholarly literature. Yogananda’s ministry was fueled by a religious nationalism that led him to conclude that Hinduism could uniquely fill the spiritual void in “the West.” Rejecting both exclusivism and pluralism, he embraced an inclusivism that viewed Hinduism as the ultimate expression of truth. He illuminates the nature of religious entrepreneurialism as he invented a variety of products to keep his ministry financially viable. His ministry reveals how missionary Hinduism’s success hinged on a deep understanding of Christian belief and practice; apart from his famed Autobiography, Yogananda’s longest text was a commentary on the New Testament Gospels, which explained how Jesus was a yogi. Yogananda’s life story demonstrates the connectedness of spirituality and place. He began to gain traction in his ministry only after he found Southern California. Yogananda “reenchanted” the modern world through his instruction and his claims to divine authority.
