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Enjoying Religion
Pleasure and Fun in Established and New Religious Movements
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2018
Summary
“Enjoying religion” seems to be a contradiction because religion is generally perceived as a serious or even suppressive phenomenon. This volume is the first to study the increase of enjoying religion systematically by presenting eleven new case studies, occurring on four continents. The volume concludes that in our late modern secular societies the enjoyment of religion or of its loose elements is growing. In particular when scholars concentrate on “lived religion” of ordinary people, the cheerful experiences appear to prevail. Many people use pleasant (elements of) religion to add meaning to their lives, to find spiritual fulfillment or a way to salvation, and to experience belonging to a larger unity. At the same time, diverse cultural dynamics of late modern society such as popular culture, commercialization, re-enchantment, and feminization influence this trend of enjoying religion. In spite of secularization, playing with religion appears to be attractive.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-5501-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-5502-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
188
Product type
Edited Book
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Table of Contents No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Enjoying Islam No access
Chapter Two: Fun and Faith in the Ganges No access
Chapter Three: Fun-damentalism No access
Chapter Four: Tantra No access
Chapter Five: Merry Christmas! No access
Chapter Six: “Our Play Pleases the Man, the Spirits of the Desert, and Whatever” No access
Chapter Seven: Happinez, Zen, and Wealth No access
Chapter Eight: Celebrating with the Church of the SubGenius No access
