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Powerful Devices studies spiritual warfare performances as an apparatus for disestablishing structures of power and knowledge, and establishing righteousness in their stead. Drawing on performance studies' emphasis on radicality and breaking of social norms as devices of social transformation, the book demonstrates how Christian groups with dominant cultural power but who perceive themselves as embattled wield the ideas of performance activism. Combining religious studies with ethnography, Powerful Devices explores Nigerian Pentecostals and US Evangelicals' praxis of transnational spiritual warfare. By closely studying spiritual warfare prayers as a "device," Powerful Devices shows how the rituals of prayer enable an apprehension of time, paradigms of self-enhancement, and the subversion of politics and authority. A critical intervention, Powerful Devices explores charismatic Christianity's relationship to science and secular authority, technology and temporality, neoliberalism, and reactionary ideology.
Pentecostal churches --- Prayer --- Evangelicalism --- Christianity --- Spiritual warfare. --- Christianity and politics. --- Customs and practices. --- Christianity. --- Influence. --- United States. --- Nigeria. --- Nigerian Pentecostals, US Evangelicals, spiritual warfare prayers, religion and christianity, religion in Africa, religion in America, neoliberalism, rituals of prayer, christianity and capitalism, US Christianity, US religion, spiritual warfare, religious warfare, American churches, African churches, religion during COVID, religion during the pandemic, pandemic adjustment, religious radicals, radicalism, the pope, catholicism, prayer circles, religious organizations, psychological warfare, the church, Christian authority.
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Islam --- History of Europe --- East and West --- Muslims --- Terrorism --- 297 <4> --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Islam. Mohammedanisme--Europa --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- East and West. --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Islam and politics --- Musulmans --- Terrorisme --- Islam et politique --- History --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Europe --- Religion --- History. --- Islam and terrorism --- European history --- culture and religion --- religious warfare --- forced immigration --- violence --- ethnic cleansing --- terrorism --- the Arab world
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Fits, trances, visions, speaking in tongues, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, possession. Believers have long viewed these and similar involuntary experiences as religious--as manifestations of God, the spirits, or the Christ within. Skeptics, on the other hand, have understood them as symptoms of physical disease, mental disorder, group dynamics, or other natural causes. In this sweeping work of religious and psychological history, Ann Taves explores the myriad ways in which believers and detractors interpreted these complex experiences in Anglo-American culture between the mid-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Taves divides the book into three sections. In the first, ranging from 1740 to 1820, she examines the debate over trances, visions, and other involuntary experiences against the politically charged backdrop of Anglo-American evangelicalism, established churches, Enlightenment thought, and a legacy of religious warfare. In the second part, covering 1820 to 1890, she highlights the interplay between popular psychology--particularly the ideas of "animal magnetism" and mesmerism--and movements in popular religion: the disestablishment of churches, the decline of Calvinist orthodoxy, the expansion of Methodism, and the birth of new religious movements. In the third section, Taves traces the emergence of professional psychology between 1890 and 1910 and explores the implications of new ideas about the subconscious mind, hypnosis, hysteria, and dissociation for the understanding of religious experience. Throughout, Taves follows evolving debates about whether fits, trances, and visions are natural (and therefore not religious) or supernatural (and therefore religious). She pays particular attention to a third interpretation, proposed by such "mediators" as William James, according to which these experiences are natural and religious. Taves shows that ordinary people as well as educated elites debated the meaning of these experiences and reveals the importance of interactions between popular and elite culture in accounting for how people experienced religion and explained experience. Combining rich detail with clear and rigorous argument, this is a major contribution to our understanding of Protestant revivalism and the historical interplay between religion and psychology.
Psychology, Religious. --- Methodism. --- Experience (Religion) --- Methodism --- Psychology, Religious --- Religious experience --- Psychology of religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Religious psychology --- Psychology and religion --- Arminianism --- Church polity --- Dissenters, Religious --- Episcopacy --- Evangelical Revival --- History --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Buddha. --- Emmanuel Movement. --- Magnet, The (Sunderland). --- New Thought. --- Presbyterians, Scottish. --- Puritanism. --- Quakers. --- Theosophy. --- adepts, theosophical. --- agency, human. --- catalepsy. --- clairvoyance. --- consciousness. --- delusions, religious. --- enthusiasm. --- fluids: magnetic. --- hell. --- imagination. --- inspiration. --- mental weakness. --- nervous instability. --- out-of-body experience. --- psychical research. --- race: and congregational makeup. --- shamanism. --- shekinah. --- temple: as biblical type. --- voices. --- Experience (Religion) - History - 18th century --- Psychology, Religious - History - 18th century --- Methodism - History - 18th century --- Experience (Religion) - History - 19th century --- Psychology, Religious - History - 19th century --- Methodism - History - 19th century --- religious and psychological hsitory --- fits --- trances --- visions --- speaking in tongues --- clairvoyance --- out-of-body experiences --- possession --- religious experience --- Anglo-American culture --- Evangelism --- Enlightenment thought --- religious warfare --- professional psychology --- the subconscious mind --- hypnosis --- hysteria --- dissociation --- supernatural phenomena --- religion and nature --- Protestant revivalism
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A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers.Margaret Jacob, one of our most esteemed historians of the Enlightenment, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms. She takes readers from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. Human frailties once attributed to sin were now viewed through the lens of the newly conceived social sciences. People entered churches not to pray but to admire the architecture, and spent their Sunday mornings reading a newspaper or even a risqué book. The secular-minded pursued their own temporal and commercial well-being without concern for the life hereafter, regarding their successes as the rewards for their actions, their failures as the result of blind economic forces.A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come.
Secularism --- Enlightenment. --- History --- Americas. --- Celestino Galiani. --- Christian theology. --- Christian time. --- Christianity. --- Edinburgh. --- French Enlightenment. --- German Enlightenment. --- German universities. --- Inquisition. --- Italian Enlightenment. --- Italian intellectual circles. --- Leibniz. --- Locke. --- Milan. --- Naples. --- Napoleon. --- Newtonian optics. --- Romantics. --- Rousseau. --- Scotland. --- Scottish Enlightenment. --- Secular Enlightenment. --- Voltaire. --- Westphalia. --- absolutism. --- anti-Catholic. --- anticlerical. --- atheism. --- calendar. --- censorship. --- clocks. --- commerce. --- educated elite. --- educated people. --- eighteenth-century philosophes. --- enlightened attitudes. --- enlightened ideas. --- enlightened people. --- enlightened thinking. --- expansion. --- human time. --- intellectuals. --- materialism. --- modern time. --- new science. --- organized religion. --- philosophes. --- pocket watches. --- political instability. --- political structures. --- pornography. --- presbyterian clergy. --- religion. --- religiosity. --- religious authority. --- religious questions. --- religious warfare. --- revolution. --- revolutionary ideals. --- revolutions. --- secular Enlightenment. --- secular democracy. --- secular lives. --- secular order. --- secular outlook. --- secular world. --- secular. --- secularity. --- secularization. --- spatial reality. --- terrestrial space. --- time. --- university professors. --- urban elite.
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