...24 Religious Pluralism and Religious Truth My theme, religious pluralism and religious truth, is one that preoccupied H. Richard Niebuhr at several points in his work but nowhere more than in The Meaning of Revelation. In the preface to that work Niebuhr recog- nizes both Ernst Troeltsch...

...chapter eIght Catholic Resistances in Revolutionary Mexico during the Religious Conflict Jean Meyer Humanity does not live by bread alone, or by the word of God. Above all else, we live by society. Like any movement established on an extensive popular base, the Christian churches...

... 5|constructing a religious norm It is increasingly clear from a range of scholarship (not only this \ book but much recent work in the history of slavery) that the social formations, alliances, and institutions adopted by urban slave...

... chapter three ‘‘A New Political Religious Order’’ Church, State, and Workers Capital cannot do without Labor, nor Labor without Capital. Mutual agreement results in the beauty of good order; while perpetual conflict necessarily produces...

...chapter eight Reforming Religious Identity in Post-Khatami Iran journal entry, female tehran college student, spring 2000 Recently I haven’t been too concerned about making sure my hejab is ok at school (rayat nemeekunam). I want them to throw me out. I heard that if you’re thrown out of...

...Chapter 9 Models of Liberation IV The Religious Transcendent The conceptions of liberation discussed so far are premised on notions that are rigorously immanentist; they make no appeal to any principle or force that cannot be accounted for entirely in terms that are located in...

... 3 RELIGIOUS STRATEGIES FOR LIBERATING THE POOR Elizabeth Amoah AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND THE CONCEPT OF POVERTY n choosing the theme ‘‘Religion and Poverty’’ this group of Pan-African Ischolars from Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania...

... Chapter 4 RETHINKING SYNCRETISM Religious Pluralism and Code Choice in a Context of Ethnoreligious Tension Islam looms large in Giriama consciousness in Ma- lindi. Ruthless Muslim jini are thought to suck Giriama blood to sustain...

... CHAPTER 5 A DUTCH DILEMMA: FREE SPEECH, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND MULTICULTURAL TOLERANCE In 1944 Gunnar Myrdal published what would become a classic study of race relations in the...

... patriotic spirits: religious welfare programs 4 and the politics of syncretism As Cuba adapts to the pressures of reinsertion into the world market, state subsidies and foreign investment have typically prioritized sectors with strong commercial...

...Angoon Remembers: The Religious Significance of Balance and Reciprocity Nancy Furlow (Tlingit) In 1882 the U.S. Navy bombed and completely destroyed the Tlingit village of Angoon, an event bitterly remembered in Tlingit oral history. Nancy Furlow’s research contex- tualizes the...

...Part Five           Television and Religion Jonathan Walton TV “Profits”: The Electronic Church Phenomenon   and Its Impact on Intellectual Activity within   African American Religious Practices Being in the pulpit was like...

...RELIGIOUS RENÉ GIRARD (1923–) A major Franco-American literary theorist of the late twentieth century, René Girard is Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford University. He belongs to a long list of theorists who view violence as grounded in notions...

... Religious Organizations ​ in San Francisco Chinatown Sites of Acculturation for Chinese Immigrant Youth Kevin M. Chun The fields of religious studies, history, sociology, and literature offer...

... Immigrant Religious Adaptation Vietnamese American Buddhists at Chua Viet Nam (Vietnamese Buddhist Temple) Hien Duc Do and Mimi Khúc Beginning in the 1960s major waves of new groups of immigrants arrived in the...

... davíd carrasco and roberto lint sagarena 9 The Religious Vision of Gloria Anzaldúa Borderlands / La Frontera as a Shamanic Space In The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Coloniza‑ tion, Walter Mignolo...

... ellen mccracken 10 Voice and Vision in Chicana Religious Practice The Literary Re-elaborations of Mary Helen Ponce, Denise Chávez, and Sandra Cisneros As U.S. Latino writers work to reverse the melting-pot...

... luis d. león 12 Borderlands Bodies and Souls Mexican Religious Healing Practices in East Los Angeles The weathered-looking “Dolores Multiplicadas” has had a hard life.1 She looks...

... ≤ Hozumi Yatsuka: The Religious, Völkisch Family-State For as Kingly power is by the law of God, so it hath no inferior law to limit it. The Father of a family governs by no other law than by his own will, not by the laws or...