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Sacred Economies
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Middle Class Pentecostalism in Argentina
In Middle-Class Pentecostalism in Argentina: Inappropriate Spirits Jens Köhrsen offers an intriguing account of how the middle class relates to Latin America's most vibrant religious movement. Based on pervasive field research, this study suggests that Pentecostalism stands in tension with the social imaginary of the middle class and is perceived as an inappropriate lower class practice. As such, middle class Pentecostals negotiate the appropriateness of their religious belonging by demonstrating distinctive tastes and styles of Pentecostalism. Abstaining from the expressiveness, emotionality, and strong spiritual practice that have marked the movement, they create a milder and socially more acceptable form of Pentecostalism. Increasingly turning into a middle class movement, this style has the potential to embody the future shape of Pentecostalism.
Faith-Based Organizations in Development Discourses and Practice
Exploring faith-based organizations (FBOs) in current developmental discourses and practice, this book presents a selection of empirical in-depth case-studies of Christian FBOs and assesses the vital role credited to FBOs in current discourses on development. Examining the engagement of FBOs with contemporary politics of development, the contributions stress the agency of FBOs in diverse contexts of development policy, both local and global. It is emphasised that FBOs constitute boundary agents and developmental entrepreneurs: they move between different discursive fields such as national and international development discourses, theological discourses, and their specific religious constituencies. By combining influxes from these different contexts, FBOs generate unique perspectives on development: they express alternative views on development and stress particular approaches anchored in their theological social ethics. This book should be of interest to those researching FBOs and their interaction with international organizations, and to scholars working in the broader areas of religion and politics and politics and development.
Religious Environmental Activism
This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change. Climate change and sustainability are increasingly prominent topics among religious and spiritual groups. Different faith traditions have developed "green" theologies, launched environmental protection projects and issued public statements on climate change. Against this background, academic scholarship has raised optimistic claims about the strong potentials of religions to address environmental challenges. Taking a critical stance with regard to these claims, the chapters in this volume show that religious environmentalism is an embattled terrain. Tensions are an in...
Passauer Zeitung
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Stories of an Exhibition
Exhibition catalog for the permanent exhibition on German Jewish History at the Jewish Museum Berlinches.
Krise der Zukunft II
Gegenwärtige Selbstverständigungsdebatten westlicher Gesellschaften sind von Krisendiskursen geprägt, die sich oftmals religiös-apokalyptischer Symbolik bedienen. Die Zukunft, so scheint es, kann, zumindest in europäischen Diskursen, oft nur noch im Modus des Katastrophischen gedacht werden. Ein solches Zukunftsdenken hat Auswirkungen auf das gegenwärtige Handeln und stellt unsere traditionellen ethischen Leitbegriffe in Frage. Wer kann Verantwortung für die Zukunft noch übernehmen, wenn die Katastrophe unabwendbar scheint? Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge der interdisziplinären Abschlusstagung des Forschungskollegs "Die Krise der Zukunft" des Zentrums für Religion, Wirtschaft und Politik (ZRWP) Basel. Die Texte beschäftigen sich in ethischer Perspektive mit den Fragen, die aktuelle Formen der Zukunftsdiskursivierung mit sich bringen.
