Hudson, W: Beyond Religion and the Secular Creative Spiritual Movements and Their Relevance to Political, Social and Cultural Reform
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
25.07.2024
Verlag
BloomsburySeitenzahl
208
Maße (L/B/H)
23.4/15.6/2.5 cm
Gewicht
320 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-350-33175-4
Deploying a distinctive disaggregative approach to the study of 'religion', this volume shows that spiritual movements with extensive counterfactual beliefs have been much more creative than one might expect.
Specifically, Wayne Hudson explores the creativity of six spiritual movements: the Bahá'ís, a Persian movement; Soka Gakkai, a Japanese movement; Ananda Marga and the Brahma Kumaris, two reformed Hindu movements; and two controversial American churches, The Church Universal and Triumphant and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most of these movements have counterintuitive features that have led Western scholars making Enlightenment assumptions to dismiss them as irrational and/or inconsequential. However, this book reveals that these movements have responded to modernity in ways that are creative and practical, resulting in a wide range of social, educational and cultural initiatives. Building on research surrounding the ways in which spiritual movements engage in cultural productions, this book takes the international research in a new direction by exploring the utopian intentionality such cultural productions reveal.Kundinnen und Kunden meinen
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