Religion: perspectives from the Engelsberg Seminar 2014
Accounting for religion: Uruk and the origins of the sacred economy -- Order and chaos in ancient Indian thought: some lessons of religion -- Mysteries and cult in the Greek world -- Religious practice in a world without revelation: the example of the Roman Empire -- Variety in Judaism -- Reassessi...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Stockholm
Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation
[2015]
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
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Abrahamic Religions Congresses
B Religion Congresses B Conference program |
| Summary: | Accounting for religion: Uruk and the origins of the sacred economy -- Order and chaos in ancient Indian thought: some lessons of religion -- Mysteries and cult in the Greek world -- Religious practice in a world without revelation: the example of the Roman Empire -- Variety in Judaism -- Reassessing Christian history -- Variety in early Christianity -- Muhammad and monotheistic pluralism -- Open access to the absolute: some remarks on the concept of religion -- Mystical experience and the evolution of consciousness: 21st-century gnosis -- The Ismaili search for Gnosis -- Esoteric experiences and critical ethnocentrism -- Religion and the secular state -- Meeting pain with pain: self-directed violence and religious rationality -- The complex relationship between violence and religion -- Suffering - the price of being alive: an Islamic perspective -- The redemption of suffering in Christianity -- Suffering as identity: the Jewish paradigm -- Tough love: the correction of sinners in the early Christian church -- Dante the European --Religion as passion: the gods in love -- Love as religion -- When did religion, cognition and culture emerge? -- Explaining religion and ritual -- Religion and politics in the Middle East -- Religious identities, political Islam and sectarianism in the new Middle East -- Judah at the crossroads: Jews and Judaism between Zion and diaspora -- The visionary potential of the biblical legacy -- God is back -- The Catholic Church's international role: waning or growing? -- Reading religion today and tomorrow: two interrelated patterns |
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| Physical Description: | 347 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-91-89672-73-4 |
