Stepping Back and Looking Ahead: Twelve Years of Studying Religious Contact at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Bochum

"This book includes a collection of articles by leading researchers on the topic of religious contact in the study of religion. Resulting from the final conference of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg 'Dynamics in the History of Religions'-one of the largest research initiatives in the inter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Elwert, Frederik, editor (editor), Freudenberg, Maren, editor, Karis, Tim, editor, Radermacher, Martin, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill 2023.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Dynamics in the History of Religions ; 13.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Religious Contacts: Theoretical Framework and Selected Case Studies
  • Chapter 1 Relational Religion: Insights and Challenges after 12 Years of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe"
  • Chapter 2 Transcending Space: Buddhist Travelogues across Cultural and Other Borders
  • Part 2 Future Perspectives in the Study of Religion
  • Section 1 Knowledge
  • Chapter 3 Researching Religious Communities in the Twenty-first Century: The Phenomenology of Religion, Local Agency and the Joint Ownership of Knowledge
  • Chapter 4 Space Aliens and Deities Compared
  • Section 2 Experience
  • Chapter 5 Religious Experience: A Genealogy of the Concept and Future Prospects of Its Scholarly Use
  • Chapter 6 Self-praise Hymns and Mystical Experiences
  • Section 3 Action
  • Chapter 7 The Dynamic Future of Digital Religion Studies
  • Chapter 8 How to Cope with Transcendence: A Question for the Historical Sciences? First Approaches of a Historian
  • Section 4 Materiality
  • Chapter 9 Religion and Materiality: Food, 'Fetish' and Other Matters
  • Chapter 10 The Future Is Female? Religion, Bodies, and Digital Discourse
  • Section 5 Methodological Outlook
  • Chapter 11 A Computational Future? Distant Reading in the Historical Study of Religion
  • Chapter 12 The Truth of Religion: Toward New Dynamics in the Scientific Study of Religion
  • Chapter 13 "Is There a Future for a Scientific Study of Religion?"
  • Index.