Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion

David W. Kim; Duncan Wright

doi:10.5771/9781666956061

Summary

Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion: Environmental Hope interprets the fundamental functions of spirituality through the theories and practices of hope and understanding the futuristic aspiration of new religious movements. The book portrays a neutral notion of hope that can be either religious or humanistic in the face of the suffering or despair of present reality. The concept of hope (or hopelessness) is demonstrated in each chapter under the global circumstance of health risk. Part One represents the various theories of hope in Christian history, ecology and climate, the Sabbath and surveillance, and the triune God. The insecure situation that creates the expectation of hope is demonstrated in Part Two, where the case studies of terrorist attacks, immigration, volunteering behavior, religious education, and medieval Islamic tradition indicate social unbalance. The last section illustrates the cultural anthropology of hope through the activities of different native new religious movements including the Moonies’ Unification movement, Yoruba Nigerian indigenous spirituality, and Cosmovisions of Sepik New Guinea. This book examines hope as a crucial element of human’s internal healing beyond medical technology.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-66695-605-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-5606-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 286
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Tables No access
  2. Figures No access
4. Foreword No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
1. Notes No access
1. 1. Faith, Hope, and Messianism from the Apostles to St. Paul No access
  2. Hope, Time, and Spirit from St. Paul to St. Augustine No access
  3. Hope, Non-Eschatological Hope, and Waiting Time: The Influence of Protestantism on Today’s Notion of Waiting No access
  4. 1. Working with Hope and Waiting in Time for Calvin and the Later Reformers No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
2. 1. 1. Surveillance No access
    2. Sabbath No access
  2. 1. Watching: Voyeurism vs. Provision No access
    2. Time: Mechanism vs. Medium No access
    3. Hope: Human Utopia vs. Divine Regnancy No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
3. 1. 1. Historical Androcentric Semantics No access
    2. Who Is God if not Him? No access
    3. The Father—I AM—Sacred Creator No access
  2. 1. Creation No access
    2. The Apical Restructuring of God No access
    3. The Son—I WILL BE—The Cosmic Christ No access
  3. 1. Trinitarian Linguistics No access
    2. The Semiotic and the Symbolic No access
    3. The Wild, Semiotic Trinity No access
    4. The Holy Spirit—I WILL BECOME—Sophia Wisdom No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
1. 1. Religion and Hope No access
  2. Social Cohesion in New Zealand No access
  3. Social Cohesion and Religion No access
  4. 1. Have Current State Mechanisms for Religious Diversity Worked for Your Community? No access
    2. Do You Believe That Government Social Cohesion Policies/Initiatives Could Be Developed to Better Represent Your Community or Other Religious Communities? No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Note No access
  7. References No access
2. 1. Education as a Core Value in the Chinese Diaspora No access
  2. Migration, Religion, and Parenting in the Chinese Diaspora No access
  3. 1. Participant Backgrounds No access
    2. Data Collection and Analysis No access
  4. 1. “God Makes Me a Wiser Mother in Parenting” No access
    2. “Bible Is the Compass of My Child’s Moral Direction” No access
    3. “Christianity Brings Me—A Chinese Mother and My Australian Child Together” No access
    4. “Church Encourages My Child to Be Ambitious” No access
  5. Summary No access
  6. Discussion No access
  7. References No access
3. 1. Measuring the Economic Impact of Religiosity in Australia No access
  2. The CRA’s Survey No access
  3. The Categories of Religiosity Status Adopted in This Research No access
  4. Logistic Regression No access
  5. How Volunteering and Giving Are Measured in the Logistic Regression Model No access
  6. 1. Religiosity Measured as Behavior: At Least Annual Attendance at Religious Services No access
    2. Religiosity Measured as “Belonging” (Identity) No access
    3. Religiosity Measured as “Belief” No access
  7. 1. Preparing the Data for Econometric Analysis No access
    2. Results of the Logistic Regression No access
  8. Volunteering to Nonreligious Causes No access
  9. Giving to Nonreligious Causes No access
  10. 1. Economic Gains from Religious Behavior by Individuals No access
    2. The Method of Valuating of Economic Gains from Giving Time/Money No access
  11. Calculating the Value of Additional Hours Volunteered No access
  12. 1. Additional Giving to Nonreligious Causes from Religious Persons No access
  13. Conclusion No access
  14. Notes No access
  15. References No access
4. 1. The Colonial Era 1875–1900 No access
  2. The Federation Era 1901–1910 No access
  3. The Foundation Era of the University of Queensland 1911–1949 No access
  4. The Era of Mid-Century Christian Neoorthodoxy 1950–1974 No access
  5. The Era of Studies in Religion 1975–1989 No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. References No access
5. 1. Studies of Covenants in the Qur’an No access
  2. 1. Allah and Humanity No access
    2. Allah and the Prophets No access
    3. Allah and People of the Scripture No access
    4. Prophet Muhammad and People of His Time No access
    5. Major Themes No access
  3. Covenants of Prophet Muhammad with Christians and Other Communities No access
  4. Contemporary Importance of Covenants in Islam No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Note No access
  7. References No access
1. 1. Necessity, the Mother of Invention No access
  2. The Unification Faith’s Rallies of Hope No access
  3. Conclusion No access
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2. 1. Who Are the Yoruba? No access
  2. Sacrifice and Yoruba Worshiping System No access
  3. Types of Sacrifice in Yoruba Worship No access
  4. Sacrifice and Human Ethics in Yoruba Land No access
  5. Nigeria Society and Social Infringement No access
  6. Food Sacrifice in Yoruba Religious Experience and Expression as a Redressive Action No access
  7. Analysis of Ritual Food Practice in Yoruba Land No access
  8. Food Sacrifice in Divine Aid and Crisis Intervention among the Yoruba People: An Example of Nigeria No access
  9. Conclusion No access
  10. References No access
3. 1. 1. Fr. Wilhelm Schmidt No access
    2. History and Culture No access
    3. Search for the Origin of the Idea of God No access
    4. The Great Vatican Exhibition of 1925 No access
    5. Reconnecting Cultures No access
    6. Objects as Gateways to Understand Local Cosmologies No access
  2. Munumba, an Artist of the Sepik River No access
  3. Two-Way Enculturation No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
Index No access Pages 271 - 280
About the Contributors No access Pages 281 - 286