Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire write by Rebekka Habermas. This book was released on 2019-03-27. Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms. However, religion and religious actors actually played crucial roles in the history of the Kaiserreich, a fact that becomes particularly evident when viewed through a transnational lens. In this volume, leading scholars of sociology, religious studies, and history study the interplay of secular and religious worldviews beyond the simple interrelation of practices and ideas. By exploring secular perspectives, belief systems, and rituals in a transnational context, they provide new ways of understanding how the borders between Imperial Germany’s secular and religious spheres were continually made and remade.
Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800–1945
Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800–1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800–1945 write by Isabella Schwaderer. This book was released on 2024-02-09. Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800–1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religion as a form of cultural expression constitutes a critical element in the relationship between Germany and India. The discovery of Indian traditions in Germany and re-interpretations of those traditions in India fueled not only new theological and philosophical explorations, but also extensive innovations in the fields of music, dance, bodily experience, and political intervention. Seeking to uncover the enfolding of colonial thought structures through presentations of the Self, while placing them in the context of global colonial value chains that connected the peripheries with the centre, this interdisciplinary volume addresses India through the lens of an entangled relationship. Adopting the position that the acceleration of communication, technical development, and colonisation locally triggered re-interpretations of the religious sphere, This volume takes a look at the period from 1800 to the end of National Socialism, tracing the strands of an Indo-Germanic religion in the making as it goes along. A special emphasis is placed on the artistic expressions of religious experience including re-enactments of musical compositions and dance configurations, which were created to embody India in Germany. This is an open access book.
Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918
Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918 write by Jörg Haustein. This book was released on 2023-07-14. Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jörg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany’s largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war. These representations of ‘Mohammedanism’, often invoked for particular political ends, amounted to a serious misreading of Muslims in East Africa, with significant long-term effects. As the first in-depth account of the politics of Islam in German East Africa, the book makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in Tanzania before British rule. It also offers a template for re-reading the colonial archive in a manner that recovers Muslim agency beyond a European paradigm of religion.
Freethinkers in Europe
Freethinkers in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freethinkers in Europe write by Carolin Kosuch. This book was released on 2020-08-10. Freethinkers in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together for the first time case studies on secularists of the 19th and early 20th centuries in national and transnational perspectives including examples from all over Europe. Its focus is on freethinkers taken as secular avant-gardes and early promoters of secularity. The authors of this book deal with multiple historical, religious, social, and cultural backgrounds and, in these contexts, analyze freethinkers' organizations, projects, networks, and contributions to forming a secular worldview, in particular, the promotion of concrete undertakings such as civil baptism or initiatives to leave church. Next to this secularist agenda, the contributions also take into account ambivalences and difficulties freethinkers were faced with, namely, the tensions between a national self-image and the transnational direction the movement has taken; the regional base of many projects and their transregional horizon; freethinkers' cultural programs and their immanent political mission; and the dialogue with respectively the conceptual distinction from other secularist groups. Readers interested in the history of secularity will learn that it was a heterogeneous enterprise already in its beginnings. This set the course for later European and global developments.
Historicizing Secular-Religious Demarcations
Historicizing Secular-Religious Demarcations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historicizing Secular-Religious Demarcations write by Monika Wohlrab-Sahr. This book was released on 2024-07-01. Historicizing Secular-Religious Demarcations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume aims to revitalize the exchange between sociological differentiation theory and the sociology of religion, which previously held center stage among the sociological classics. It brings together contributions from different disciplines, as well as various forms of regional and historical expertise, which are indispensable in forming a globally oriented sociological perspective today. Secularization is understood as a process of boundary demarcation, that is, as the enactment of semantic, practical, and institutional distinctions between religion and other spheres of activity and knowledge. These distinctions may emerge from within the religious field itself, or may be absorbed into the field having originally emerged elsewhere. They may even be directly imposed upon religion by external forces. The volume is therefore based on the premise that societal differentiation – and secularity as a specific expression of it – is a widespread structural feature that nonetheless takes on various forms, depending on its historical and cultural context. In order to make this diversity visible, the volume adopts a global comparative perspective, and examines historical distinctions and differentiations in the West and beyond. By examining different forms and modes of secularity in statu nascendi, the volume contributes to developing a better understanding of the diversity of secularities, even of those found in the present day, in terms of their historicity and their specific path dependencies. With this shift in perspective, this special volume initiates a global and historical turn in the theory of differentiation, as well as in the study of secularity.
