Irreverence and the Sacred
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-091196-6 (ISBN)
Hugh B. Urban is a professor of religious studies and South Asian studies in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of nine books, including The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion (2011) and Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement (2016). Greg Johnson is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition and co-editor of Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s) (2017).
Contributors
List of Images
Preface and Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
Destabilizing the Sacred: A Critical History of Religions
Hugh B. Urban and Greg Johnson
PART I. MYTH AND NARRATIVE
1. (Mythical) Battles in Medieval Scandinavia: Battle Narratives and the
Construction of Society
Nicolas Meylan
2. Myth, Third Rome, and the Uses of Ressentiment: An Essay in Myth Criticism
Ivan Strenski
3. How the Arthashastra and the Kamasutra Got Away With Their Critiques of
Dharma
Wendy Doniger
4. Authority Apart from Truth: Superhero Comic Book Stories as Myth
Kevin Wanner
5. Myths and Utopias, Critics and Caretakers: In Defense of Revisionist History
Stefan Arvidsson
PART II. RITUAL AND PRACTICE
6. Ritual, Advocacy, and Authority: The Challenge of Being an Irreverent Witness
Greg Johnson
7. Death, Nationalism, and Sacrifice: Ritual, Violence, Politics, and Tourism in
Northeast India
Hugh B. Urban
8. Becoming Zarathustra
Jean Kellens
PART III. GENDER AND SEXUALITY
9. Where Men are Knights and Women are Princesses: Gender Ideology in Brazil's Valley of the Dawn
Kelly E. Hayes
10. Straightening Out the Gods' Gender
Kathleen Self
11. Norn, Vampire, Female Christ: Myth and Myth-Making in Sweden's First
Feminist Novel
Stefanie von Schnurbein
PART IV. POWER, POLITICS, AND THE POLITICS OF SCHOLARSHIP
12. Historicizing the Elephant in the Room
Russell T. McCutcheon
13. What is Religion? Between Christocentric Paradigm and Anthropological Relativism
Claude Calame
14. Rereading Charlie Hebdo: Of Irreverence and Laïcité
S. Romi Mukherjee
Afterword: An Interview with Bruce Lincoln on Religion, Comparison, and the Politics of Scholarship
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.12.2018 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 239 x 163 mm |
Gewicht | 680 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-091196-4 / 0190911964 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-091196-6 / 9780190911966 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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