Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions written by Patrick Taylor and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 1185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions is the definitive reference for Caribbean religious phenomena from a Caribbean perspective. Generously illustrated, this landmark project combines the breadth of a comparative approach to religion with the depth of understanding of Caribbean spirituality as an ever-changing and varied historical phenomenon. Organized alphabetically, entries examine how Caribbean religious experiences have been shaped by and have responded to the processes of colonialism and the challenges of the postcolonial world. Systematically organized by theme and area, the encyclopedia considers religious traditions such as Vodou, Rastafari, Sunni Islam, Sanatan Dharma, Judaism, and the Roman Catholic and Seventh-day Adventist churches. Detailed subentries present topics such as religious rituals, beliefs, practices, specific historical developments, geographical differences, and gender roles within major traditions. Also included are entries that address the religious dimensions of geographical territories that make up the Caribbean. Representing the culmination of more than a decade of work by the associates of the Caribbean Religions Project, The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions will foster a greater understanding of the role of religion in Caribbean life and society, in the Caribbean diaspora, and in wider national and transnational spaces.

Download or read book Philosophies of Appropriated Religions written by Soraj Hongladarom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together different intercultural philosophical points of view discussing the philosophical impact of what we call the ‘appropriated’ religions of Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is home to most of the world religions. Buddhism is predominantly practiced in Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Singapore, Laos, and Cambodia; Islam in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei; and Christianity in the Philippines and Timor-Leste. Historical data show, however, that these world religions are imported cultural products, and have been reimagined, assimilated, and appropriated by the culture that embraced them. In this collection, we see that these ‘appropriated’ religions imply a culturally nuanced worldview, which, in turn, impacts how the traditional problems in the philosophy of religion are framed and answered—in particular, questions about the existence and nature of the divine, the problem of evil, and the nature of life after death. Themes explored include: religious belief and digital transition, Theravāda Buddhist philosophy, religious diversity, Buddhism and omniscience, indigenous belief systems, divine apology and unmerited human suffering, dialetheism and the problem of evil, Buddhist philosophy and Spinoza’s views on death and immortality, belief and everyday realities in the Philippines, comparative religious philosophy, gendering the Hindu concept of dharma, Christian devotion and salvation during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines through the writings of Jose Rizal, indigenous Islamic practices in the Philippines, practiced traditions in contemporary Filipino celebrations of Christmas, role of place-aspects in the appropriation of religions in Southeast Asia, and fate and divine omniscience. This book is of interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy of religion, sociology of religion, anthropology of religion, cultural studies, comparative religion, religious studies, and Asian studies.

Download or read book Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters written by Manfred Zaumseil and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a broad theoretical foundation by relating and contrasting relevant international literature with the outcomes of a particular research project. It provides a critical reevaluation of the complex phenomena of coping with disasters on a general level by applying this integrative theory of disaster coping to a specific context. A cultural psychological model is developed in order to suggest ways of understanding and assessing local and cultural specificity. This interaction of the general and locally specific is central to our understanding of cultural psychology of coping with disaster. The book provides a basic overview, by presenting various approaches to coping with natural disasters and relating them to each other in a coherent manner. So far, most research approaches either focus on technical, social, psychological or cultural aspects of coping, neglecting their interconnectedness. Coping is seldom seen as an extensive, long-term process, in which disaster relief complexly interacts and is integrated with the local actors and conditions. Until now, a perspective is missing, in which the mentioned modes of coping are integrated with cultural interpretations and practices and long-standing forms of communal self-help, which possibly develop in places that are frequently threatened by natural disasters.

Download or read book Proceedings of the International Seminar SEMANTIKS PRASASTI 2023 Theme Language in the Workplace PRASASTI 2023 written by Djatmika Djatmika and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. Language in the workplace has been increasingly interesting object of language study. The gathering of language speakers ​​with various social and cultural backgrounds makes the workplace a rich place with linguistic data for research. Varieties of spoken or written language, interaction between co-workers, miscommunication, meaning coming up in the interaction, the new technical terms related to certain professions, and language for virtual work are some many phenomena of language in the workplace that can become the object of linguistic research.

Download or read book Hindu Javanese written by Robert W. Hefner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam, will be forthcoming.

Download or read book Wong Pinter The Roles and Significance of Javanese Shaman written by Agustinus Sutiono and published by Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the phenomenon of socio-religio-magico reality in Java called wong pinter, this study is a pioneering academic work based on a first hand data. By interviewing 108 practitioners within the framework of anthropological and ethnographical approaches and putting the discussions in the context of shamanism study, this work is also a unique inquiry on Javanese culture conducted by a native. Wong Pinter delineates significant connectivity between Javanese shamanism and Asian or Southeast Asian shamanism. It also describes various aspect of shamanism practices in Java and assesses the sustainability and challenges of this phenomenon vis-a-vis the suppression of religious and political establishment. Above all, this book is an outstanding report valuable to those who are interested to delve into the core of Javanese culture and to the deliberation of social science in general.

Download or read book The Calling of the Church in Times of Polarization written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many societies all over the world, an increasing polarization between contrasting groups can be observed. Polarization arises when a fear born of difference turns into ‘us-versus-them’ thinking and rules out any form of compromise. This volume addresses polarizations within societies as well as within churches, and asks the question: given these dynamics, what may be the calling of the church? The authors offer new approaches to polarizing debates on topics such as racism, social justice, sexuality and gender, euthanasia, and ecology and agriculture in various contexts. They engage in profound theological and ecclesiological reflection, in particular from the Reformed tradition. Contributors to this volume are: Najib George Awad, Henk van den Belt, Nadine Bowers Du Toit, Jaeseung Cha, David Daniels, David Fergusson, Jan Jorrit Hasselaar, Jozef Hehanussa, Allan Janssen, Klaas-Willem de Jong, Viktória Kóczián, Philipp Pattberg, Louise Prideaux, Emanuel Gerrit Singgih, Peter-Ben Smit, Thandi Soko-de Jong, Wim van Vlastuin, Jan Dirk Wassenaar, Elizabeth Welch, Annemarieke van der Woude, and Heleen Zorgdrager.

Download or read book Political Geology written by Adam Bobbette and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the emerging field of political geology, an area of study dedicated to understanding the cross-sections between geology and politics. It considers how geological forces such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and unstable ground are political forces and how political forces have an impact on the earth. Together the authors seek to understand how the geos has been known, spoken for, captured, controlled and represented while creating the active underlying strata for producing worlds. This comprehensive collection covers a variety of interdisciplinary topics including the history of the geological sciences, non-Western theories of geology, the origin of the earth, and the relationship between humans and nature. It includes chapters that re-think the earth’s ‘geostory’ as well as case studies on the politics of earthquakes in Mexico city, shamans on an Indonesian volcano, geologists at Oxford, and eroding islands in Japan. In each case political geology is attentive to the encounters between political projects and the generative geological materials that are enlisted and often slip, liquefy or erode away. This book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners across the political and geographical sciences, as well as to philosophers of science, anthropologists and sociologists more broadly.

Download or read book Architecture and Spirituality written by Dian Nafi and published by Hasfa . This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and Spirituality

Download or read book Bali is Not India written by Santosaba and published by Santo Saba Piliang. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamental questions that must be answered: ● What nation in the world can explain the clear and detailed meaning of the philosophy of the "Swastika" symbol ...? ● What nation in the world to this day in its everyday culture uses the symbol "Swastika" ...? Nation ... which to this day with its "Swastika" philosophy lives peacefully and reconciles the world, because here is stored perfectly the basic teachings of the original "Dharmic" .... which underlies the growth of the 3 great religions of India Ńâmô āryātārā ..... We Are Aryā ...

Download or read book The Future Shape of Christian Proclamation written by Cleophus J. LaRue and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity is turning brown and moving south. The Christianity the West has known is in recession and has all but dwindled out of recognition in the opening years of the twenty-first century. Well over half of the world’s Christians now live in the Global South—Africa, Asia, and Latin America. They are, according to Aberdeen missiologist Andrew Walls, the new Representative Christians. What they think about Christianity will matter more and more and what North America thinks about Christianity will matter less and less. This massive shift in geography and theological point of departure will have a major impact on Christian preaching now and into the future. The Future Shape of Christian Proclamation seeks to begin the conversation about how preaching in the Global South will inform the whole of Christian preaching in the coming years.

Download or read book BALI IS NOT INDIA written by Santo Saba Piliang and published by Santo Saba Piliang. This book was released on with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BALI IS NOT INDIA Balinese culture was started by Indian Rshi ... Is it true....? When did "India" come to the Indonesian Archipelago before entering the remote corners of the country ... until all the original teachings of the archipelago, .... thousands of sites also the kingdom of "Pre-Islam" was mentioned from there ...? Let's look at: The Netherlands has played the role of "Indian" in Bali, brought Indians to Bali, "Balinese" Caste in 1910 because of this influence many Balinese in 1930 studied in India ... dominantly concluded "Bali is Better" Balinese culture was started by Indian Rshi ... Is it true....? ● Rshi Mārkaṇḍeya, refers to The Sanskrit Episode Mahābhārata which consists of 100,000 ślokas / metric verses that are more than 2000 years old related to the name Mārka disebutkaneya mentioned in (II.82.70) ... is listed about the name Mārkaṇḍeya continuing with the word "Tīrtha" ..., Mārkaṇḍeya blessed by Vishnu, doing many "Tapasya" in "Tirtha" known as "Sālagrāma" .... this is where Āgnīdhra rested in old age after dividing Jambūdvīpa among his nine sons From the quote above ... means the name Mārkaṇḍeya has been around for thousands of years and is written in the book "Mahābhārata" ... then again there is the word "Tīrtha" ... this word is a word that has existed for a long time in the earlier Archipelago The word "Tirtha from the word" Stiti - Rtha ", Stiti = sustainable, preserving," Rtha "= truth / true life ...., the word 'Rtha' is often used for the word" Kertha "..." Religion "in Bali was originally named "Tirta Religion" then became "Hindu Bali", this was only in "Paste" in 1950 .... and based on academic study of the formal name "Hindu" in India only existed in the 9th century English era The word "Jambūdvīpa", Sālagrāma where Āgnīdhra rested in old age after dividing "Jambūdvīpa" among its nine sons .... "Jambūdvīpa", this location is in the Indonesian Archipelago at the foot of Mount Burangrang "the" Jambudvipa "region as a supporting valley" Mount " Ancient Sundanese "or sometimes called" Mount Agung Batara Guru " ... is there a literacy of the word "Jambū" and also this named location in India there ...? Balinese culture was started by Indian Rshi ... Is it true....? ● Rshi Mārkaṇḍeya, Written in the slogan "Bhwana Tatwa" about Maharsi Mārkaṇḍeya: "Sang Ayati, mwang Sang Niata, at the time of the complete plenary list, wicaksaneng aji, major literary scene ..." The Ayati continued his ancestral footsteps to become a hermit, he was a son of the Prana, and so was his younger brother named Sang Niata, the son of the Mrakanda, after the adult the Mrakanda was married to Dewi Manaswini, the son of Maharsi Mārkaṇḍeya Furthermore, Maharsi Mārkaṇḍeya was married to Goddess Dumara, demoted Maharsi Sirah, who was married to Dewi Wipari, who then lowered many sons ● If it is true, Rshi Mārkaṇḍeya from India can anyone mention a complete pedigree like us above ... is there also a name that is typical of the name of India ...? Maha Rsi Mārkaṇḍeya was in Bali around the 9th century AD, while Mpu Gnijaya in the Babad Pasek was one of 5 priests who were known as "Panca Tirtha" namely Mpu Gnijaya, Mpu Semeru, Mpu Gana, Mpu Kuturan and Mpu Bhradah, whereabouts Mpu Kuturan and Mpu Bhradah in Bali were around the 11th century AD ● Rshi Mārkaṇḍeya created the "Subak" irrigation system is there an irrigation system in India ...? So ... It is true that Rshi Mārkaṇḍeya is an Archipelago, not only his name ... also the key to his proof that he is an Archipelago is because Reshi Mārkaṇḍeya did Planting "Panca Dhatu" in Penataran Besakih Temple, Also Rshi Agastya performs many rituals of "Tirtha Religion" in Bali, This is proof of behavior and "Archipelago Procedures" because this is not found in India, plus there are regulations there that are not written that "Saints" don't generally take their teachings outside the area Rshi Mārkaṇḍeya is the Prominent Son of the Archipelago of Svarnadvipa among his previous ancestral names: ● Dharmadasa 700-620 BC ● Dharmapala 670-580 BC ● Suvarnadvipa Dharmakirti 610 BC - 520 BC ● Kumarila Bhatta I 618-540 BC ● Adi Sankara 569-537 BC ● Çhri Janaýasã 6th century AD ..Çhri Janaýasã / "Dapuntha Hyang" 6th century 4th day 11th day doing "Siddhayatra" / holy trip carrying "Dharma" also Alumni graduates of the University "Dharmapala", this is a location that is seen by Fa-Huan and I-Thsing .... go spread north and also westwards 2,213 people ... this is also what Rshi Mārkaṇḍeya did up to Bali ... Bali stores perfectly the teachings of the archipelago's "Dharma / Dhamma" ancestors ... and this is an important point ... "Original Dharmic" of Nusantara, The Initial Philosophy of "Monotheism" / Hyang Widhi Tunggal / Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Waça / Acintya (All-In-One God) ... Acintya " Atintya .... "He who is unimaginable" ... "The unthinkable" ... The unimaginable ........... Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Waça, ...... no "Kṛṣṇa" ... INDONËSIARYĀ By: Santosabapiliang (Datuok Panglimo Soko) Book Info: WA +62813 2132 9787

Download or read book Java Indonesia and Islam written by Mark Woodward and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark R. Woodward’s Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta (1989) was one of the most important work on Indonesian Islam of the era. This new volume, Java, Indonesia, and Islam, builds on the earlier study, but also goes beyond it in important ways. Written on the basis of Woodward’s thirty years of research on Javanese Islam in a Yogyakarta (south-central Java) setting, the book presents a much-needed collection of essays concerning Javanese Islamic texts, ritual, sacred space, situated in Javanese and Indonesian political contexts. With a number of entirely new essays as well as significantly revised versions of essays this book is a valuable contribution to the academic community by an eminent anthropologist and key authority on Islamic religion and culture in Java.

Download or read book The Pulse of the Earth written by Adam Bobbette and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pulse of the Earth Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia’s volcanoes. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, scientists became concerned with protecting the colonial plantation economy from the unpredictable bursts and shudders of volcanoes. Bobbette follows Javanese knowledge traditions, colonial geologists, volcanologists, mystics, Theosophists, orientalists, and revolutionaries to show how the earth sciences originate from a fusion of Western and non-Western cosmology, theology, anthropology, and geology. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and fieldwork at Javanese volcanoes and in scientific observatories, he explores how Indonesian Islam shaped the theory of plate tectonics, how Dutch colonial volcanologists learned to see the earth in new ways from Javanese spiritual traditions, and how new scientific technologies radically recast notions of the human body, distance, and the earth. In this way, Bobbette decenters the significance of Western scientists to expand our understanding of the evolution of planetary thought and rethinks the politics of geological knowledge.

Download or read book Resounding Transcendence written by Jeffers Engelhardt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world. With chapters covering Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist practices in East and Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, North America, the Caribbean, North Africa, and Europe, the volume establishes the theoretical and methodological foundations for music scholarship to engage in current debates about modern religion and secular epistemologies. It also transforms those debates through sophisticated, nuanced treatments of sound and music - ubiquitous elements of ritual and religion often glossed over in other disciplines. Resounding Transcendence confronts the relationship of sound, divinity, and religious practice in diverse post-secular contexts. By examining the immanence of transcendence in specific social and historical contexts and rethinking the reified nature of "religion" and "world religions," these authors examine the dynamics of difference and transition within and between sacred musical practices. The work in this volume transitions between traditional spaces of sacred musical practice and emerging public spaces for popular religious performance; between the transformative experience of ritual and the sacred musical affordances of media technologies; between the charisma of individual performers and the power of the marketplace; and between the making of authenticity and hybridity in religious repertoires and practices. Broad in scope, rich in ethnographic and historical detail, and theoretically ambitious, Resounding Transcendence is an essential contribution to the study of music and religion.

Download or read book Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia written by Tan Ta Sen and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tan Ta Sen has modestly suggested that, as a book to illustrate the peaceful impact of culture contact, he is concerned to show how such cultural influences not only led to transmissions, conversions and transferences involving Inner Asian Muslims from China and Yunnan Muslims, Chams, Javanese, Malays, Arabs and Indians, but also enabled many Chinese in the Malay world to retain their non-Muslim cultural traits. In placing Cheng Ho's voyages in this context, the author offers a fresh perspective on a momentous set of events in Chinese maritime history. Professor Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore.Tan Ta Sen's book on Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia is not the first one on the subject, but it is the first book that puts Cheng Ho's voyages in the larger context of "e;culture contact"e; in China and beyond. He has garnered numerous sources, from published documents to architectural sites and buildings, to support his arguments. He has done much more than previous scholars writing on this subject. - Professor Leo Suryadinata, Chinese Heritage Centre (Singapore).This long-awaited book is welcomed by the academic community ... Tan Ta Sen has used historical facts to strengthen the argument on the existence of the "e;Third Wave"e;, i.e. "e;the Chinese Wave"e;, in the spread of Islam in the Southeast Asian region. Until now, we only know two major waves, i.e. the India-Gujarat Wave and the Middle East Wave through the development of trade relations. - Professor A. Dahana, University of Indonesia (Jakarta).

Download or read book Islamic Spectrum in Java written by Timothy Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This empirically grounded work explores the emerging aspects of cultural politics in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. It engages with complex issues of cultural translation, localization and globalization from various perspectives through analyzing a diverse range of cultural forms, including government or palace-based celebrations, ceremonies and rituals, modern student theatre, and Islamic revival sessions. With its discussion of both old and new Islamic movements, alongside the contested religious interpretations of public cultural events, this book will be of interest not only to anthropologists, but also to scholars of religion, culture and sociology.