Download or read book Fundamentalismos y di logo entre religiones written by Juan José Tamayo-Acosta and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La tarea iniciada con "Nuevo paradigma teológico" es continuada por Juan José Tamayo en esta obra con la determinación de dos de los horizontes anteriormente esbozados: el intercultural y el interreligioso. Semejante desarrollo significa la articulación de un nuevo universo categorial, poco usual en las teologías confesionales, pero que integra sus categorías, además de incorporar otras nuevas. El nuevo paradigma interreligioso e intercultural retoma así la categoría de secularización, haciéndose cargo de sus interpretaciones encontradas y destacando sus ambigüedades, sin olvidar atender al complejo fenómeno del retorno de la religión en la sociedad actual. En un segundo momento, emprende el análisis de la categoría de «fundamentalismo» en dos de sus expresiones: el fundamentalismo «religioso» (forma extrema de la intolerancia religiosa) y el «económico» (la «religión del mercado»), tanto en su historia como en su fenomenología. El estudio de las tipologías de la relación entre el cristianismo y las otras religiones permite luego avanzar en la categoría central de «diálogo interreligioso». La consideración en este contexto de la relación entre cristianismo e islam es ocasión para la propuesta innovadora de una teología islamo-cristiana de la liberación. Los «derechos humanos», como otra categoría fundamental del nuevo paradigma, permiten examinar el carácter humanista de las religiones y su articulación entre divinidad y ser humano. La categoría de «interculturalidad», por último, implícita en todo el desarrollo anterior, representa un antídoto contra el fundamentalismo cultural y supone una renovación del quehacer teológico y de las religiones en vista del «multiverso» cultural en que están insertas.
Download or read book The Fundamentalist Mindset written by Charles B. Strozier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What accounts for the violence that emerges among some fundamentalist groups? The contributors to this book identify several factors: a radical dualism, in which all aspects of life are bluntly categorized as either good or evil; a destructive inclination to interpret authoritative texts, laws, and teachings in the most literal of terms; an extreme and totalized conversion experience; paranoid thinking; and an apocalyptic world view. After examining each of these concepts in detail, and showing the ways in which they lead to violence among widely disparate groups, these engrossing essays explore such areas as fundamentalism in the American experience and among jihadists, and they illuminate aspects of the same psychology that contributed to such historical crises as the French Revolution, the Nazi movement, and post-Partition Hindu religious practice.
Download or read book The American Religion in General written by Robert E. Willoughby and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Religion in General is an invigorating challenge to Christian churches to face up to their dying influence-a result of thier fundamentalism, biblical literalism, racism, homophobia, militarism, and theological exclusivity. All, Willoughby says, are at variance with the spirit and teaching of the historic Jesus, who preached inclusiveness, nonviolence, compassion, and sharing... and whose power is invitational rather then coercive.
Download or read book Religion Identity Politics Global Trends And Local Realities written by Mathews Mathew and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse on fundamentalism has gained much attention in recent years, particularly in a post-9/11 context where extremist or terrorist threats are more prominent, perilous, and pervasive. This edited volume seeks to spotlight the perspectives of academics and practitioners vis-à-vis global trends in religious fundamentalism and right-wing extremism over the past decade. It presents a collection of works from notable academics and practitioners; including a selection of case studies from Asia to illustrate the contemporary interplay of religion, politics and identity; alongside broader global trends of religious fundamentalism.The chapters that follow attempt to trace the sources and factors that led to the dramatic rise in these powerful forces of faith, which influence societies and politics around the world. Together, they present a carefully curated narrative of the interplay of religion and identity politics globally and across Asia. The prevailing differences in demographics, history and the extent of ethno-religious diversity across country contexts are perused across each chapter, and the ensuing circumstances deliberated upon.As these circumstances change, the ways people interpret their identities, engage in politics, and navigate their religion will also evolve. How we manage the effects of religious fundamentalism must hence begin with an understanding of how religion, identity, and politics interact — and this is what the upcoming chapters seek to illustrate.
Download or read book Fundamentalism and Charismatic Movements written by Humeira Iqtidar and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term âe~fundamentalismâe(tm) carries a wide range of meanings, some of them pejorative. Here it is used to refer to what the French call âe~integrismâe(tm), meaning a religious code which encompasses and governs with its prescriptions the entire private and public life of individuals and the collectivity. The prime examples in the contemporary world are Muslim renewal; Christian evangelical and charismatic churches, sects, and tendencies; and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism. These three varieties of movement represent radical departures from the traditions out of which they have grown. These new forms can be characterized in terms of their ability to plug into local cultural practices and incorporate them without theorizing; ability to provide a framework for coping with serious social ills among the marginalized; ability to create transcultural communities of individuals without regard to prior political, linguistic, or ethnic frontiers; obsessive attention to the control of sexuality, especially female; belief in the literal truth of every word in the holy text; and their emphasis on conversion as a crisis and rupture in the life of individuals. Even in its early days, Pentecostalism was a multicultural, multi-ethnic movement, drawing on black Americans, and the Mexican, European, and Asian migrant communities in America for its following. Today, in some countries (such as Nigeria and Ghana) the appeal seems to be more to the middle-class groups, while in others, such as in Latin America and the Philippines, it is most successful among the urban poor and among indigenous peoples, and represents a profound change after five centuries of a virtual Catholic monopoly. In Islam and Judaism an erudite strand of learning has co-existed with a proliferation of healers and seers. Modern Jewish fundamentalists are however overwhelmingly focused on texts, and although their heritage in Eastern Europe has a strong element of ecstatic prayer, that has tended to take second place in the post-Holocaust era to an institutionalization of learning. In Islam, likewise, the renewal movements, led usually by lay people rather than clergy (except in Iran), focus on the text of the Qurâe(tm)an and are hostile to mystical heritage embodied by Sufism. This new, four-volume collection from Routledge makes available a range of materials which represent: (a) the most important recent analytical and descriptive contributions to the subject; (b) some doctrinal and historical texts; and (c) a representative coverage of the subject by theme and geographical area. It is sure to be welcomed by scholars and students as an indispensable resource for reference and research.
Download or read book Revive Us Again The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism written by Michigan Joel A. Carpenter Provost Calvin College and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997-10-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the 1920s, fundamentalism in America was intellectually bankrupt and publicly disgraced. Bitterly humiliated by the famous Scopes "monkey trial," this once respected movement retreated from the public forum and seemed doomed to extinction. Yet fundamentalism not only survived, but in the 1940s it reemerged as a thriving and influential public movement. And today it is impossible to read a newspaper or watch cable TV without seeing the presence of fundamentalism in American society. In Revive Us Again, Joel A. Carpenter illuminates this remarkable transformation, exploring the history of American fundamentalism from 1925 to 1950, the years when, to non-fundamentalists, the movement seemed invisible. Skillfully blending painstaking research, telling anecdotes, and astute analysis, Carpenter--a scholar who has spent twenty years studying American evangelicalism--brings this era into focus for the first time. He reveals that, contrary to the popular opinion of the day, fundamentalism was alive and well in America in the late 1920s, and used its isolation over the next two decades to build new strength from within. The book describes how fundamentalists developed a pervasive network of organizations outside of the church setting and quietly strengthened the movement by creating their own schools and organizations, many of which are prominent today, including Fuller Theological Seminary and the publishing and radio enterprises of the Moody Bible Institute. Fundamentalists also used youth movements and missionary work and, perhaps most significantly, exploited the burgeoning mass media industry to spread their message, especially through the powerful new medium of radio. Indeed, starting locally and growing to national broadcasts, evangelical preachers reached millions of listeners over the airwaves, in much the same way evangelists preach through television today. All this activity received no publicity outside of fundamentalist channels until Billy Graham burst on the scene in 1949. Carpenter vividly recounts how the charismatic preacher began packing stadiums with tens of thousands of listeners daily, drawing fundamentalism firmly back into the American consciousness after twenty years of public indifference. Alongside this vibrant history, Carpenter also offers many insights into fundamentalism during this period, and he describes many of the heated internal debates over issues of scholarship, separatism, and the role of women in leadership. Perhaps most important, he shows that the movement has never been stagnant or purely reactionary. It is based on an evolving ideology subject to debate, and dissension: a theology that adapts to changing times. Revive Us Again is more than an enlightening history of fundamentalism. Through his reasoned, objective approach to a topic that is all too often reduced to caricature, Carpenter brings fresh insight into the continuing influence of the fundamentalist movement in modern America,and its role in shaping the popular evangelical movements of today.
Download or read book Modernity of Religiosities and Beliefs written by Pablo Alberto Baisotti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity of Religiosities and Beliefs: A New Path in Latin America From the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century synthesizes new research on various phenomena related to religions and beliefs in Latin America. The contributors provide comprehensive analytical interpretations of Latin American spheres of religious ideas and worldviews and show that they are a key element to understanding the history of the region. Overall, this book gives an account of the whole spectrum of religious phenomena in Latin American societies, providing a “global” interpretation that will contribute to the study of political, economic, and cultural modernities in Latin America.
Download or read book Assertive Religion written by Emanuel de Kadt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions about religions and religious institutions have changed dramatically since they first arose many years ago. In the beginning of the twenty-first century, the link of religion with extreme ideologies captures our attention. Such questions have been the focus of a steadily growing number of books. What does Assertive Religion add to the debate? Emanuel de Kadt discusses the relationship of religion to wider social issues such as human rights and multiculturalism. He traces the growth, during the religious revival over the past decades, of assertive, and even coercive, forms of religion, notably—but not exclusively—fundamentalist varieties. He deals with these questions as they relate to the three major Abrahamic religions, thereby addressing a readership wider than that made up of persons interested exclusively in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. The author takes on issues such as the effects of the "Jewishness" of Israel on the rights of Palestinians; the consequences of the centralized authority structure of the Roman Catholic Church; and the implications of the failure of reform-oriented Muslims to make their voices heard in an organized Islamic reform movement. He is even-handed, focusing on both positive and negative features of each religious perspective, though he does have a clear viewpoint. Assertive Religion adds to increasingly sharp political discussions on issues arising out of religion. It is a must read for anyone interested in how religion is shaping the world of tomorrow.
Download or read book Religion and Society On the Present Day Religious Situation written by and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is today mainly present in the consciousness of people through keywords like fundamentalism, global conflict or violence. But as what is religion understood and how does it affect the society are questions that need to be examined separately. The contributions in this volume will examine the sub-questions that pose themselves in this light: 1) What influence does religion exercise on our social life forms? 2) What are the religious societal prerequisites? And how is visible religion affected by these? 3) How do these questions present themselves both externally and internally in the contemporary perception?
Download or read book Religion and Human Rights written by Project on Religion and Human Rights and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1994 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God Is Back written by John Micklethwait and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark examination of the resurgence of faith around the globe The Editor in Chief of The Economist and its Lexington columnist show how the global rise of religion will dramatically impact our century in God Is Back. Contrary to the popular assumption that modernism would lead to the rejection of faith, American-style evangelism has sparked a global revival. On the street and in the corridors of power the authors shine a bright light on a vast yet until now hidden world of religion. Twenty-first-century faith is being fueled by a very American emphasis on competition and a customer-driven attitude toward salvation. Revealing how the religion boom is destabilizing politics and the global economy, God Is Back concludes by showing how the same American ideas that created our unique religious style can be applied to channel the rising tide of faith away from volatility and violence.
Download or read book Clashing Fundamentalisms written by Sikata Banerjee and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fundamentalism Politics and the Law written by Marci A. Hamilton and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade, the growing intensity of fundamentalist movements has ignited increasingly heated debates and controversies over the role of religion in modern societies. Until 9/11, most debates in the modern United States over the intersection of religion, politics, and society had focused on the rise and influence of the fundamentalist Protestant-led Christian Right. But after that tragic day, fundamentalist religious beliefs commanded even more attention, though this time Islamic. Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Law describes and analyzes the role of religious fundamentalist beliefs in the modern political world. Comprised of studies by leading scholars in law, political science, sociology and religion, this volume is organized around two major topics: the first examines the rise and the enduring influence of the Christian Right in U.S. politics and policy. The second focuses on the clash between fundamentalist practices in various religious traditions and societal norms and the law.
Download or read book If God Were a Human Rights Activist written by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society. If God Were a Human Rights Activist aims to strengthen the organization and the determination of all those who have not given up the struggle for a better society, and specifically those that have done so under the banner of human rights. It discusses the challenges to human rights arising from religious movements and political theologies that claim the presence of religion in the public sphere. Increasingly globalized, such movements and the theologies sustaining them promote discourses of human dignity that rival, and often contradict, the one underlying secular human rights. Conventional or hegemonic human rights thinking lacks the necessary theoretical and analytical tools to position itself in relation to such movements and theologies; even worse, it does not understand the importance of doing so. It applies the same abstract recipe across the board, hoping that thereby the nature of alternative discourses and ideologies will be reduced to local specificities with no impact on the universal canon of human rights. As this strategy proves increasingly lacking, this book aims to demonstrate that only a counter-hegemonic conception of human rights can adequately face such challenges.
Download or read book Strangers in Zion written by William Robert Glass and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This story has been virtually ignored by historians of fundamentalism and historians of religion in the South. Glass has written a history that fills a significant gap in the historical literature on fundamentalism and on religion in the American South. As such, he lays the groundwork for understanding the South's contribution to the growth of the religious right in second half of the twentieth-century."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Fields of Blood written by Karen Armstrong and published by Mizan Pustaka. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berbagai peristiwa dunia belakangan ini diwarnai oleh kekerasan yang dilakukan oleh kelompok agama tertentu. Islamic State di Timur Tengah, Boko Haram dan Lord's Resistance Army di Afrika, ekstremis Buddha dan Hindu di Myanmar dan India. Ini memunculkan pandangan populer bahwa agama adalah sumber kekerasan dan bertanggung jawab atas rentetan terorisme yang kian kerap terjadi. Melalui buku ini Karen Armstrong memberikan tanggapannya terhadap pandangan tersebut. Karen melakukannya dengan menampilkan penjelajahan historis yang luas, mulai dari epik Gilgamesh hingga Al-Qaeda, merentang masa 3.000 tahun sebelum kelahiran Kristus hingga zaman sekarang. Mencakup masyarakat purba, bukan hanya Babilonia, melainkan juga India klasik, Cina, dan Israel. Dari penelusurannya, Karen menunjukkan bahwa alasan sesungguhnya bagi perang dan kekerasan yang terjadi sepanjang sejarah umat manusia sangat sedikit hubungannya dengan agama. Alih-alih berakar dari inti ajarannya, fenomena kekerasan merupakan reaksi terhadap kekuasaan negara, kapitalisme dan modernisme yang dibungkus dengan bahasa agama. Karen juga memperlihatkan bagaimana agama dapat meredakan kemarahan ini-dan harapan bagi perdamaian di antara orang-orang beragama berbeda di zaman kita. "Provokatif dan sangat enak dibaca … kajian komparatif [Armstrong] sangat menyegarkan .… Dengan berani, seperti biasanya, dia meliput sejarah agama di seluruh dunia dan sepanjang 4.000 tahun untuk menjelaskan hubungan agama dan kekerasan serta untuk menerangkan bagaimana agama juga digunakan untuk menentang kekerasan." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Datang pada saat yang tepat, ahli sejarah agama Karen Armstrong menghadirkan Fields of Blood .... Penuh dengan contoh-contoh … tujuan akhir [Armstrong] adalah meminta kita untuk sejenak berhenti. Pikirkan sebelum melompat ke dalam prasangka, katanya .... Di antara yang paling menarik dalam bukunya adalah dekonstruksinya atas stereotip Islam modern …. Pada bagian akhir, hal yang paling ditekankan oleh Armstrong adalah bahwa dengan menyalahkan agama atas kekerasan, kita secara sengaja dan berbahaya membutakan diri terhadap isu sesungguhnya di Timur Tengah dan Afrika." -Patricia Pearson, The Daily Beast "Elegan dan tangguh .… Akurat sekaligus cerdas, menakjubkan dalam keluasan pengetahuan dan perincian historisnya … [Armstrong] berupaya memperlihatkan bahwa, alih-alih menempatkan kesalahan pada gambaran kekejaman dan legenda-legenda dalam teks kitab suci dan sejarah agama, kita harus berfokus pada konteks politik yang membingkai agama." -Mark Juergensmeyer, The Washington Post "Dari Gilgamesh hingga bin Laden, [Armstrong merangkum] hampir lima milenium pengalaman umat manusia .… Memberikan konteks pada apa yang mungkin tampak seperti episode-episode kekerasan yang dimotivasi agama, untuk memperlihatkan bahwa agama bukanlah penyebab utama …. Dia tidak ragu untuk mengatakan bahwa agresi para jihadis modern tidak merepresentasikan esensi agama yang abadi, dan bahwa faktor-faktor politik, ekonomi, dan budaya lainnya sangat berperan dalam bagaimana dan mengapa orang-orang menjadi radikal." -Noel Malcolm, The Telegraph (UK) "Buku yang sangat penting ... terpuji karena keilmiahannya, dan memang sangat layak." -Maureen Fiedler, National Catholic Reporter "Berskala epik … kajian menyeluruh dan cerdas tentang sejarah kekerasan dalam hubungannya dengan agama … Armstrong dengan sabar menggiring pembaca melintasi sejarah … tulisannya jernih dan deskriptif, pendekatannya berimbang dan ilmiah … bacaan yang memukau, rujukan yang berguna, dan suara yang tegas dalam membela yang Ilahi dalam budaya manusia." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) [Mizan Publishing, Agama, Kajian, Terjemahan, Keyakinan, Indonesia]
Download or read book Faith based Radicalism written by Christiane Timmerman and published by P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terror attacks against Western symbols of power, suicide terrorism in Chechnya, or bombing of abortion clinics in the United States: these are a few of the violent religious outbursts that the media never seem to stop broadcasting. While these outbursts are mostly linked to Islamic extremism, it should however be acknowledged that every religion has its own violent side. Despite all the events the media are too prompt to show us, it would be dishonest and insensible not to accept that every religion has also a potential for religious peace building and communal renewal. How, can it be explained then, that religions sometimes react violently against the society surrounding them by trying to overthrow it, while at some other times they willingly help and try to build a better world for everyone? The University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp organised an interdisciplinary summer seminar in September 2005 and gathered senior scholars - all experts in their own fields - and junior scholars - who will be the experts of tomorrow - from all over the world, to discuss these burning issues. The seminar focused on miscellaneous topics all pointing towards the question of religion and society; like literalism and the Holy texts, the ambivalence of faith-based radicalism, the psychology of religion and terrorism, nationalism and religion and religious social movements. - Publisher.
