{"id":7596,"date":"2016-01-17T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:50:48","slug":"world-religion-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/world-religion-day-2016","title":{"rendered":"World Religion Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Religion Day<\/a> is an interfaith observance initiated in 1950 by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bah\u00e1’\u00eds of the United States, celebrated worldwide on the third Sunday in January each year. Though initiated in the United States, World Religion Day has come to be celebrated internationally.<\/p>\n

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In keeping with this initiative we are offering a 25% discount<\/strong> on all Berghahn Religious Studies<\/a> titles for the next 30 days. At checkout, simply enter the code WRD16<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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A full selection of titles from Berghahn can be found on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"JESUS RECLAIMED<\/a>
\nJewish Perspectives on the Nazarene
\nWalter Homolka
\nTranslated by Ingrid Shafer
\nForeword by Leonard Swidler<\/p>\n

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After centuries of persecution, oppression, forced migrations, and exclusion in the name of Christ, the development of a Jewish \u201cQuest for the Historical Jesus\u201d might seem unexpected. This book gives an overview and analysis of the various Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene throughout the centuries, emphasizing the variety of German voices in Anglo-American contexts. It explores the reasons for a steady increase in Jewish interest in Jesus since the end of the eighteenth century, arguing that this growth had a strategic goal: the justification of Judaism as a living faith alongside Christianity.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: The Life of Jesus according to the Sources<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"RELIGION AND SCIENCE AS FORMS OF LIFE<\/a>
\nAnthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason
\nEdited by Carles Salazar and Joan Bestard<\/p>\n

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The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed. The purpose of this volume is to analyze the relationships, possible articulations and contradictions between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations. Contributions use this theoretical and ethnographic research to explore different scientific and religious cultures in the contemporary world.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Science, Religion and Forms of Life<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE POLYNESIAN ICONOCLASM<\/a>
\nReligious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power
\nJeffrey Sissons<\/p>\n

Volume 5, ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images. In the aftermath of the explosive event, which Sissons terms the Polynesian Iconoclasm, hundreds of architecturally innovative churches \u2014 one the size of two football fields \u2014 were constructed. At the same time, Christian leaders introduced oppressive laws and courts, which the youth resisted through seasonal displays of revelry and tattooing. Seeking an answer to why this event occurred in the way that it did, this book introduces and demonstrates an alternative \u201cpractice history\u201d that draws on the work of Marshall Sahlins and employs Bourdieu\u2019s concepts of habitus, improvisation and practical logic.<\/p>\n

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\"\"A PROPHETIC TRAJECTORY<\/a>
\nIdeologies of Place, Time and Belonging in an Angolan Religious Movement
\nRuy Llera Blanes<\/p>\n

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Combining ethnographic and historical research conducted in Angola, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, A Prophetic Trajectory tells the story of Sim\u00e3o Toko, the founder and leader of one of the most important contemporary Angolan religious movements. The book explains the historical, ethnic, spiritual, and identity transformations observed within the movement, and debates the politics of remembrance and heritage left behind after Toko\u2019s passing in 1984. Ultimately, it questions the categories of prophetism and charisma, as well as the intersections between mobility, memory, and belonging in the Atlantic Lusophone sphere.<\/p>\n

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\"\"LEARNING RELIGION<\/a>
\nAnthropological Approaches
\nEdited by David Berliner and Ramon Sarr\u00f3<\/p>\n

Volume 17, Methodology & History in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of \u201cdownloading\u201d but also as a social process with its relational dimension.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Chapter 1. On Learning Religion: An Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"SHARING THE SACRA<\/a>
\nThe Politics and Pragmatics of Intercommunal Relations around Holy Places
\nEdited by Glenn Bowman<\/p>\n

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\u201cUsing ethnographic and historical approaches, the chapters in this book show that [contrary to what is often believed] religious spaces are frequently peacefully shared by different religious groups\u2026and reveal how inter-faith and inter-religious discursive formations are produced..by believers, state officials, and transnational institutions. Thus the volume provides important theoretical and methodological tools for an anthropology of inter-religious relations.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, this is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on shared sacred places. It shows what a carefully constructed edited volume can achieve in an academic world where researchers are under increasing pressure to only seek publication in journals with high global exposure. It also engages with a crucial issue in a world where religion has not retreated to the private sphere \u2013 the ability of pilgrims and others to co-exist at the same highly charged place.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Anthropological Notebook<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: <\/a><\/strong>Sharing the Sacra<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/em>MULTIPLE MORALITIES AND RELIGIONS IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA<\/a>
\nEdited by Jarrett Zigon<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn this volume, the discussion of multiple moralities, religions and secularisms is put forth by multiple voices of researchers as well\u2026representing different levels of ethnographic intimacy and theoretical engagement. While this disparity could end up as a flaw, as often happens with edited volumes, in this case it complements well the complexity of the moral worlds of informants and heterogeneity of local moral discourses \u2026 This volume also enriches the study of secularism, religion and morality in post-Soviet studies and beyond.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Social Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis collection includes an impressive roster of contributors in order to offer a multitude of analyses that specifically address the relationship between morality and religion in post-Soviet Russia\u2026As a whole, this volume unquestionably enriches the contemporary understanding of post-Soviet Russia. It also adds to a growing concern with the articulation of a contemporary anthropology of morality.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of Contemporary Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

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THE DREAM IN ISLAM<\/a>
\nFrom Qur’anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration
\nIain R. Edgar<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe book stands out as noteworthy in one respect especially, because the author goes beyond the continual struggle between orientalists and anti-orientalists. One consequence of defining Islamic studies within this vicious circle is that a majority of the current generation of Islamic historians believes that the study of Arabic legal, theological or historical texts from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries is good enough to define \u2018native\u2019 Islamic civilisation. Edgar deconstructs that old approach, and brings to the task considerable expertise in social science methodology. Subsequent case studies on dream narratives will benefit immensely from his imagination-based research methods.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Political Studies Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEdgar has brought to light a genuinely important phenomenon with potentially major consequences.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of Anthropological Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"ORDINARY LIVES AND GRAND SCHEMES<\/a>
\nAn Anthropology of Everyday Religion
\nEdited by Samuli Schielke and Liza Debevec<\/p>\n

Volume 18, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe great merit of this book consists in taking the practices of the people \u201con the ground\u201d into account. It thereby addresses a gap: the moments when grand schemes and daily practices come together, often in contradiction or in complex and open ways\u2026 a compelling and inspirational volume.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Allegra Laboratory<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAnthropologists will find many valuable references and many useful ideas and models for future research. As part of an expanding literature on the everyday, the collected essays suggest the advances still to be made by applying the notion of ‘vernacular’ or ‘popular’ to religion and to culture more generally.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Anthropology Review Database<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"RELIGION AND SOCIETY<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
\n Advances in Research<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Religion and Society<\/em> responds to the need for a rigorous, in-depth review of current work in the expanding sub-discipline of the anthropology of religion. In addition, this important, peer-reviewed annual aims to provide a dynamic snapshot of developments in the study of religion as a whole and encourages interdisciplinary perspectives.<\/p>\n

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Religion and Society: Portraits Special Virtual Issue<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
\nEach volume contains a Portrait section that profiles a senior scholar of religion, with invited essays on the scholar’s work by authorities in their respective subfields. This special virtual issue is compiled of a selection of these Portraits.<\/p>\n

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\"\"SOCIAL ANALYSIS<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
\nThe International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice\u00a0<\/a>
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Social Analysis<\/em> has long been at the forefront of anthropology’s engagement with the humanities and other social sciences. In forming a critical, concerned, and empirical perspective, it encourages contributions that break away from the disciplinary bounds of anthropology and suggest innovative ways of challenging hegemonic paradigms through “grounded theory,” analysis based in original empirical research.<\/p>\n

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Read a Series of Blog Posts from Contributors to the\u00a0Magic and Religion Issue<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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