Enjoying Religion (eBook)

Pleasure and Fun in Established and New Religious Movements

Frans Jespers, Karin van Nieuwkerk, Paul van der Velde (Herausgeber)

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2018
212 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5502-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume offers a wide variety of case studies ranging from Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism to new religious movements showing there is an increasing tendency among believers and nonbelievers to enjoy or play with religion.

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';Enjoying religion' seems to be a contradiction because religion is generally perceived as a serious or even suppressive phenomenon. This volume is the first to study the increase of enjoying religion systematically by presenting eleven new case studies, occurring on four continents. The volume concludes that in our late modern secular societies the enjoyment of religion or of its loose elements is growing. In particular when scholars concentrate on ';lived religion' of ordinary people, the cheerful experiences appear to prevail. Many people use pleasant (elements of) religion to add meaning to their lives, to find spiritual fulfillment or a way to salvation, and to experience belonging to a larger unity. At the same time, diverse cultural dynamics of late modern society such as popular culture, commercialization, re-enchantment, and feminization influence this trend of enjoying religion. In spite of secularization, playing with religion appears to be attractive.

Autor

Frans Jespers is associate professor of comparative religion at Radboud University, Nijmegen.Karin van Nieuwkerk is professor of Islam studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen.Paul van der Velde is professor of Asian religions at Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Inhalt

James S. Bielo6. “Our Play Pleases the Man, the Spirits of the Desert, and Whatever”: Enjoying Religion at Burning Man7. Happinez, Zen, and WealthCarole M. Cusack9. Beyond Morality. On Religion in Aesthetic FormJean-Pierre Wils

Produkt-Details

• Co-Autor: James S. Bielo, Jean-Pierre Wils, Carole M. Cusack, Francois Gauthier, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, Frans Jespers, Lisbeth Mikaelsson, Karin van Nieuwkerk, Catrien Notermans, Paul van der Velde
• Zusatzinfo: 14 Illustrations including: - 14 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: American Christian fundamentalists • Buddhist Tantrists • burning man • cheerful piety • Christianity • Christmas • Egyptian muslims • enjoyment in religion • feel-good religion • Happinez Festival • Hinduism • Indian Hindu pilgrims • Islam • New Religious Movements • play in religion • pleasant spirituality • secular religiosity • Tantra • X-Day • Yoga • Zen
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-5502-0 / 1498555020
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-5502-9 / 9781498555029