Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Sociology of Religion

Ecologies of Faith in New York City examines patterns of interreligious cooperation and conflict in New York City. It explores how representative congregations in this religiously diverse city interact with their surroundings by competing for members, seeking out niches, or cooperating via coalitions and neighborhood organizations. Based on in-depth research in New York's ethnically mixed and rapidly changing neighborhoods, the essays in the volume describe how religious institutions shape and are shaped by their environments, what new roles they have assumed, and how they relate to other...

Ecologies of Faith in New York City examines patterns of interreligious cooperation and conflict in New York City. It explores how representative congregations in this religiously diverse city interact with their surroundings by competing for members, seeking out niches, or cooperating via coalitions and neighborhood organizations. Based on in-depth research in New York's ethnically mixed and rapidly changing neighborhoods, the essays in the volume describe how religious institutions shape and are shaped by their environments, what new roles they have assumed, and how they relate to other...

Was das Heilige ist und wie man daruber sprechen kann, ist eine offene Frage in der religionswissenschaftlichen und theologischen Forschung. Die Beitrage analysieren Diskurse uber Heiliges in spatantiken Religionskulturen. Terminologien, Handlungen und Reflexionen in Bezug auf Heiliges werden in ihrem jeweiligen religiosen Bezugssystem thematisiert.

Die rechtliche Gleichstellung ist weit gehend verwirklicht. Bis zur gelebten Chancengleichheit bleibt ein langer Weg. Um ihn zu gehen, braucht es beide Geschlechter. Darin besteht Einigkeit. Doch was ist nun genau der gleichstellungspolitische Beitrag der Jungen, Manner und Vater? Welche Herausforderungen stellen sich ihnen? Welche Anliegen und Perspektiven haben sie? Mit dem vorliegenden Buch liegt erstmals fur den deutschen Sprachraum ein Referenzwerk vor, das die Legitimation von Jungen-, Manner- und Vaterpolitik(en) klart; mannerpolitische Konzeptionen, Ansatze und Anliegen fachlich...

The Buddha on Mecca's Verandah examines the many ways in which people living along an international border negotiate their ethnic, cultural, and political identities. This ethnography of a small community of Thai Buddhists in the Malaysian state of Kelantan draws on rich, original vignettes to show how issues such as territoriality, identity, and power frame the experiences of borderland residents. Although the Thai represent less than 10 percent of the Kelantan population, they are vocal about their identity as non-Muslim, non-Malay citizens. They have built some of the world's...

The Buddha on Mecca's Verandah examines the many ways in which people living along an international border negotiate their ethnic, cultural, and political identities. This ethnography of a small community of Thai Buddhists in the Malaysian state of Kelantan draws on rich, original vignettes to show how issues such as territoriality, identity, and power frame the experiences of borderland residents. Although the Thai represent less than 10 percent of the Kelantan population, they are vocal about their identity as non-Muslim, non-Malay citizens. They have built some of the world's...

This is an excellent book that adds to the anthropological and historical literature on shared sacred sites. The majority of the articles are very well written, present strong arguments that are revealed with important research. The result is that the book adds to and clarifies some of the debates about the sacred sites, how they are shared as well as the role of the various actors involved in the process. The cases are varied, rich and evocative. Furthermore they are of contemporary importance and relevance. - Karen Barkey, Columbia University

"Shared" sites, where members of...