Religious Individualisation: Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110580012 ISBN 13: 9783110580013

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2019

Synopsis

This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods, in particular in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past.

Contrary to standard theories of modernisation, which tend to regard religious individualisation as a specifically modern or early modern as well as an essentially Western or Christian phenomenon, the chapters reveal processes of religious individualisation in a large variety of non-Western and pre-modern scenarios. Furthermore, the volume challenges prevalent views that regard religions primarily as collective phenomena and provides nuanced perspectives on the appropriation of religious agency, the pluralisation of religious options, dynamics of de-traditionalisation and privatisation, the development of elaborated notions of the self, the facilitation of religious deviance, and on the notion of dividuality.

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M. Fuchs, A. Linkenbach, M. Mulsow, B. Otto, J. Rüpke, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt and R. Parson, University of Colorado, Boulder.

M. Fuchs, A. Linkenbach, M. Mulsow, B.Otto, J. Rüpke, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt und R.Parson, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

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This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project 'Religious Individualization in Historical Perspective' (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past.

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110580012
• ISBN 13: 9783110580013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1444
• Editor: Fuchs Martin, Linkenbach Antje, Mulsow Martin, Otto Bernd-Christian, Parson Rahul Bjørn, Rüpke Jörg