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In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelation and learning in Arabic lands - Bowen shows how Muslims have adapted Islamic texts and traditions to ideas and conditions in the societies in which they live. Returning to key case studies in Asia, Africa and Western Europe, to explore each major domain of Islamic religious and social life, Bowen also considers the theoretical advances in social anthropology that have come out of the study of Islam. A New Anthropology of Islam is essential reading for all those interested in the study of Islam and for those following new developments in the discipline of anthropology.

-Religious anthropology --- -Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Anthropology of religion --- Islamic sociology --- 297 --- Muslim sociology --- Sociology, Islamic --- Sociology --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Islamic sociology. --- Sociologie religieuse --- Anthropologie religieuse --- Islam --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Anthropology of religion - Islamic countries

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This book explores the evaluations made by religious groups and individuals about the potential of public spheres for religious practice, focussing upon public religion in societies of the Asia-Pacific. Across this region we observe a resurgence of religious traditions, increasing mediatisation of religion, and an inward turn toward conservative political programs. Against this background, relations between religion and public domains are critical influences upon civic inclusion and equal citizenship. In contrast to conventional approaches to religion and public life that focus upon the public potential of religion, chapter authors focus upon the religious potential of public domains, taking the perspectives of religious actors as their points of departure. The book’s chapters capture the dynamic nexus between religion and politics in Asia-Pacific public spheres: why would Indonesia’s minority Shiite movement strive to develop a public profile in a national environment where it attracts widespread disapproval? What constructions of religion and public space make Banaras so unconducive to female mobility? Why does the success of the social services wing of Australia’s Salvation Army create anxiety for its religious wing? What is at stake for followers of Australian Spiritualism when they attend spirit-medium sessions? How are popular Islamic preachers vulnerable to action from Indonesia’s civil society organisations? What do media representations of Hajj pilgrimage by Indonesia’s presidents have in common with middle-class representations of gender? Why did Indonesia’s traditionalist Muslim intellectuals draw heavily upon the ideas of Jürgen Habermas in their theorisations of state-society relations? An epilogue by the Indonesian neo-traditionalist intellectual Ahmad Baso, the most prominent theorist of state-religion relations in that country, overviews the issues against the background of that country’s religious and political histories.

Religion and politics. --- Anthropology of religion. --- Politics and Religion. --- Anthropology of Religion. --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- Religion and politics --- Religion and sociology

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Marcello Massenzio propose ici une analyse fascinante de "figures" du Juif errant. Condamné à une errance perpétuelle pour avoir frappé Jésus dans la montée au Calvaire, le Juif errant devient un mythe ambigu dès le XIIIe siècle, porteur à la fois du thème du Juif témoin de la Passion et de motifs antijuifs. Une fresque de Giotto rend compte avec nuance de cette ambivalence, que mettent encore plus en évidence deux textes peu connus de Goethe. Au début du XXe siècle, le mythe est réapproprié par la culture juive, notamment dans une série de tableaux saisissants de Chagall. Après la Shoah, le Juif errant est plus que jamais porteur du destin juif-trouvant peut-être son incarnation dans le personnage troublant et obsédant du maître d’Élie Wiesel et d’Emmanuel Lévinas, l’étrange Monsieur Chouchani...

Wandering Jew in literature. --- Wandering Jew in art. --- Wandering Jew. --- Jews in literature. --- Jews in art. --- Juif errant dans la littérature --- Juif errant (Légende) --- Juifs dans la littérature --- Juifs dans l'art --- Wandering Jew --- Wandering Jew in art --- Wandering Jew in literature --- Judaism - Mythology - Religious anthropology - Wandering Jew in arts and literature --- Juif errant dans la littérature --- Juif errant (Légende) --- Juifs dans la littérature --- Wandering Jew - Congresses --- Wandering Jew in art - Congresses --- Wandering Jew in literature - Congresses --- Judaism - Mythology - Religious anthropology - Wandering Jew in arts and literature.

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An anthropological theorization of the unity and diversity of Christianity, this book focuses on Christian communities in Nanping, a small city in China. It applies methodological insights from Actor-Network Theory to investigate how the Christian God is made part of local social networks. The study examines how Christians interact with and re-define material objects, such as buildings, pews, offerings, and blood, in order to identify the kind of networks and non-human actors that they collectively design. By comparing local Christian traditions with other practices informing the Nanping religious landscape, the study points out potential cohesion via the centralizing presence of the Christian God, the governing nature of the pastoral clergy, and the semi-transcendent being of the Church. .

Christianity --- Actor-network theory. --- History. --- ANT (Sociological theory) --- Sociology --- Religions --- Church history --- Methodology --- Ethnology. --- Ethnography. --- Religion and sociology. --- Sociology. --- Christianity. --- Social Anthropology. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Sociological Theory. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Anthropology of religion --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology

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In this book, Riitta Hujanen explores temporality in the context of Catholic enclosed contemplative traditions. It investigates, based on literature and other sources, what enclosed contemplatives might say about temporality through their monastic journeys. What makes a young person decide to dedicate their life inside a cloister? Do contemplatives have a preference for eternity over temporal time? How does the enclosed contemplative life impact one’s concept of time? How is time perceived towards the end of one’s monastic journey? What is seen when looking back to the years in the enclosed contemplative life? What is experienced at the hour of death? The answers to these questions illustrate a paradoxical dynamic in monastic journeys that cover a broad historical scope from the earliest monastic writers to contemporary sources. Riitta Hujanen received her PhD in Theology and Religious Studies from Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom. She serves as Chief Investment Officer of OP Asset Management.

Anthropology of religion. --- Religions. --- Religion and sociology. --- Anthropology of Religion. --- Comparative Religion. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Contemplative orders. --- Enclosure (Monasticism). --- Monastic and religious life.