Religion and Its Other
Heike Bock, Jörg Feuchter, Michi Knecht (Hg): Religion and Its Other. Secular and Sacral Concepts and Practices in Interaction. Campus, 2008.
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Herausgeber:
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Zu diesem BuchThe possibility to conceptualize »the religious« and »the secular« as two differentiated spheres and to contrast them is a typical element of Western modernity. It is therefore no surprise that, while notions of religion as such are widespread through all times and cultures, systematic conceptions and universalizing definitions are often shaped by specifically Western developments and historical experiences, as cultural and social anthropologist Talal Asad has made us aware. Taking Asad’s reflections as a starting point and choosing the figure of »Religion and Its Other« as their specific research strategy, the chapters in this collection, representing a rich array of perspectives from historical, social and cultural sciences, examine the ways in which concepts and practices of the secular and the religious emerge in relation to one other in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Die westliche Moderne trennt das »Religiöse« und das »Säkulare« in zwei Bereiche, die sich radikal entgegenstehen. Außereuropäische Gesellschaften, frühere Epochen und global vernetzte Gegenwartsgesellschaften haben aber auch andere Deutungsmuster: etwa die gegenseitige Durchdringung und Bezogenheit beider Sphären. Ausgehend von dieser Überlegung untersuchen die Beiträge, welche Konzepte und Praxen des Religiösen und des Säkularen in Christentum, Judentum und Islam auftreten und wie sie einander bedingen.
Contents:
Introduction: Reconfiguring Religion and Its Other 9
Michi Knecht and Jörg Feuchter
Rethinking Religious Reform
Law, Ethics and Religion in the Story of Egyptian Modernization 23
Talal Asad
Muhammad Rashîd Ridâ (1865–1935) or: The Importance of
Being (a) Journalist 40
Dyala Hamzah
Islamic Reformism and the Secular: Rashîd Ridâ’s Theory
on Miracles 64
Richard van Leeuwen
Early Modern Probabilism as a Secularizing Doctrine:
Including a Preliminary Comparison with Some Interpretative
Instruments of »Liberal Islam« 79
Carlos Martínez Valle
Rewriting Genealogies
Beyond Religion: On the Lack of Belief During the Central
and Late Middle Ages 101
Dorothea Weltecke
The Islamic Ribat: A Model for the Christian Military Orders?
Sacred Violence, Secularized Concepts of Religion and the
Invention of a Cultural Transfer 115
Jörg Feuchter
The Formation of Jewish Mysticism and Its Impact on the
Reception of Rabbi Abraham Abulafia in Contemporary
Kabbalah 142
Boaz Huss
Transcending Borders and Boundaries
The Devil in Spandau: Demonology between Religion and
Magic at the End of the Sixteenth Century 165
Vera Isaiasz
Science Treats, but only God Can Heal: Medical Pluralism
between Religion and the Secular in Ghana 184
Kristine Krause
Formations of the Religious Self: Becoming »Women in Christ«
in a Globalizing World 198
Gertrud Hüwelmeier
Image, Trance, and the Other in Mediterranean Folk Religion 211
Thomas Hauschild
Notes on Contributors 235
Index of Names and Places 241
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