Appropriation Of Religion
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Author |
: Liz Bucar |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2022-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674287266 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674287266 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stealing My Religion by : Liz Bucar
From sneaker ads and the “solidarity hijab” to yoga classes and secular hikes along the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route, the essential guide to the murky ethics of religious appropriation. We think we know cultural appropriation when we see it. Blackface or Native American headdresses as Halloween costumes—these clearly give offense. But what about Cardi B posing as the Hindu goddess Durga in a Reebok ad, AA’s twelve-step invocation of God, or the earnest namaste you utter at the end of yoga class? Liz Bucar unpacks the ethical dilemmas of a messy form of cultural appropriation: the borrowing of religious doctrines, rituals, and dress for political, economic, and therapeutic reasons. Does borrowing from another’s religion harm believers? Who can consent to such borrowings? Bucar sees religion as an especially vexing arena for appropriation debates because faiths overlap and imitate each other and because diversity within religious groups scrambles our sense of who is an insider and who is not. Indeed, if we are to understand why some appropriations are insulting and others benign, we have to ask difficult philosophical questions about what religions really are. Stealing My Religion guides us through three revealing case studies—the hijab as a feminist signal of Muslim allyship, a study abroad “pilgrimage” on the Camino de Santiago, and the commodification of yoga in the West. We see why the Vatican can’t grant Rihanna permission to dress up as the pope, yet it’s still okay to roll out our yoga mats. Reflecting on her own missteps, Bucar comes to a surprising conclusion: the way to avoid religious appropriation isn’t to borrow less but to borrow more—to become deeply invested in learning the roots and diverse meanings of our enthusiasms.
Author |
: Michel Picard |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2017-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319562308 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319562304 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Appropriation of Religion in Southeast Asia and Beyond by : Michel Picard
This volume investigates various processes by which world religions become localized, as well as how local traditions in Southeast Asia and Melanesia become universalized. In the name of modernity and progress, the contemporary Southeast Asian states tend to press their populations to have a ‘religion,' claiming that their local, indigenous practices and traditions do not constitute religion. Authors analyze this ‘religionization,’ addressing how local people appropriate religion as a category to define some of their practices as differentiated from others, whether they want to have a religion or are constrained to demonstrate that they profess one. Thus, ‘religion’ is what is regarded as such by these local actors, which might not correspond to what counts as religion for the observer. Furthermore, local actors do not always concur regarding what their religion is about, as religion is a contested issue. In consequence, each of the case studies in this volume purposes to elucidate what gets identified and legitimized as ‘religion’, by whom, for what purpose, and under what political conditions.
Author |
: Morny Joy |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1552385027 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781552385029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis After Appropriation by : Morny Joy
After Appropriation consists of thirteen essays stemming from the workshop, each of which addresses an issue or illustrates a problem in the interdisciplinary field of comparative religion and philosophy as it is presently conceived. Many misappropriations and exclusions have arisen from the Western tendency to reduce and manipulate the ideas and values of non-Western religions and philosophies to fit within Western concepts and categories. How might comparative philosophy and religion change if the concepts and categories of non-Western philosophies and religions were taken as primary? This book explores this question through analytic and phenomenological Western approaches, infused with fresh strategies and modalities derived from or inspired by non-Western traditions. In a world of increasing pluralism and continuing globalization, there is a growing need to elevate discussion of these issues to a more sophisticated level.
Author |
: Suzanne Owen |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 2011-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441165817 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441165819 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality by : Suzanne Owen
Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society. Their spirituality has been appropriated on a relatively large scale by Europeans and non-Native Americans, with little concern for the diversity of Native American opinions. Suzanne Owen offers an insight into appropriation that will bring a new understanding and perspective to these debates. This important volume collects together these key debates from the last 25 years and sets them in context, analyses Native American objections to appropriations of their spirituality and examines 'New Age' practices based on Native American spirituality. The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality includes the findings of fieldwork among the Mi'Kmaq of Newfoundland on the sharing of ceremonies between Native Americans and First Nations, which highlights an aspect of the debate that has been under-researched in both anthropology and religious studies: that Native American discourses about the breaking of 'protocols', rules on the participation and performance of ceremonies, is at the heart of objections to the appropriation of Native American spirituality.
Author |
: Juan O. Sánchez |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2016-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476664859 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476664854 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and the Ku Klux Klan by : Juan O. Sánchez
As with other terrorist and extremist organizations, religion forms the basis of the Ku Klux Klan's dogmatic philosophy, providing justification for its beliefs and actions. The Klan represents a link to America's cultural past. While America has undergone tremendous social change, the secretive order has, since the end of the Civil War, kept alive the antiquated values--predicated on racism and religion--of white supremacism. Covering nearly a century of Klan ideology, this book examines the group's religious rhetoric in its literature and songs, from its heyday during the 1920s to 2014.
Author |
: Dimiter Daphinoff |
Publisher |
: Bohlau Verlag Koln |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-11-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3412531421 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783412531423 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Appropriation as Practice of Memory by : Dimiter Daphinoff
This volume explores how narratives and iconographic codes in literature, art, music, material culture and social, political, and economic discourses were appropriated and thereby - sometimes radically - transformed by religious agents, and how religious narrations, discourses and iconographic practices were reimagined and used (up to radical deconstruction) in non-religious contexts as well as in different or transformed religious contexts. Religious appropriation is thereby conceived as practice of memory, drawing on reused - and creating transformed - narrative and visual spaces of imagination. The dimension of memory will contribute to a more differentiated typology of practices of appropriation, their forms, functions and functionalisation. Agency and power relations will be important factors in the individual contributions of this trans-disciplinary volume that links approaches from memory studies, religious history, literary studies, and art history.
Author |
: Valentino Gasparini |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 622 |
Release |
: 2020-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110557947 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110557940 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World by : Valentino Gasparini
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by specialists from a variety of disciplinary contexts (Jewish Studies, Theology, Classics, Early Christian Studies) dealing with the history of religion of the Mediterranean, West-Asian, and European area from the (late) Hellenistic period to the (early) Middle Ages and shaped by their intensive exchange. From the point of view of their respective fields of research, the contributors engage with discourses on agency, embodiment, appropriation and experience. They present innovative research in four fields also of theoretical debate, which are “Experiencing the Religious”, “Switching the Code”, „A Thing Called Body“ and “Commemorating the Moment”.
Author |
: Bernd Hirschberger |
Publisher |
: transcript Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2024-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783732868278 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3732868273 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religious Freedom and Populism by : Bernd Hirschberger
Populism is a growing threat to human rights. They are appropriated, distorted, turned into empty words or even their opposite. The contributors to this volume examine these practices using the example of freedom of religion or belief, a human right that has become a particular target of right-wing populists and extremists worldwide. The contributions not only show the rhetorical patterns of appropriation and distortion, but also demonstrate for various countries which social dynamics favor the appropriation in each case and propose how to strengthen human rights and the culture of debate in democratic societies.
Author |
: Daniel A. Keating |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2004-02-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199267132 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199267138 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria by : Daniel A. Keating
Daniel A. Keating presents a comprehensive account of sanctification and divinization in Cyril. He argues that Cyril correlates the somatic and pneumatic means of our union with Christ, and integrates the ontological and ethical aspects of our sanctification and divinization.
Author |
: James O. Young |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2012-02-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781444350838 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1444350838 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation by : James O. Young
The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation. Explores cultural appropriation in a wide variety of contexts, among them the arts and archaeology, museums, and religion Questions whether cultural appropriation is always morally objectionable Includes research that is equally informed by empirical knowledge and general normative theory Provides a coherent and authoritative perspective gained by the collaboration of philosophers and specialists in the field who all participated in this unique research project