Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and ModernityJacob K. Olupona Routledge, 2004 M02 24 - 364 páginas What role do indigenous religions play in today's world? Beyond Primitivism is a complete appraisal of indigenous religions - faiths integrally connected to the cultures in which they originate, as distinct from global religions of conversion - as practised across America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific today. At a time when local traditions across the world are colliding with global culture, it explores the future of indigenous faiths as they encounter modernity and globalization. Beyond Primitivism argues that indigenous religions are not irrelevant in modern society, but are dynamic, progressive forces of continuing vitality and influence. Including essays on Haitian vodou, Korean shamanism and the Sri Lankan 'Wild Man', the contributors reveal the relevance of native religions to millions of believers worldwide, challenging the perception that indigenous faiths are vanishing from the face of the globe. |
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... Ideas, University of Sydney, Department of Studies in Religion; previously, he was Professor of History at the University of Papua New Guinea. He is the author of Early Christian Historiography: Narratives of Retributive Justice ...
... perceptions of reality among large numbers of people. Berger maintains that any critique of modernity must address these five categories. Similar to Berger, Anthony Giddens puts forward the idea of 2 Jacob K. Olupona.
... idea of discontinuities of modernity.3 Giddens builds on the ideas of Marx and Durkheim to develop an economic and sociological interpretation of modernity. He explains that modernity creates discontinuities such as the pace of change ...
... ideas of unification, such as Kantian ideas of unconditional and categorical imperatives. De-differentiation is characterized by a fluidity of denomination as ideas are merged together. This tendency is no more apparent than in the ...
... ideas of Sayyid Qutb. Qutb advocates the idea of a Muslim brotherhood, in which the values of human dignity constitute the true values of modernity. Qutb believes that since faith in God is the most important value, this faith has a ...
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Do Jews make good Protestants? The crosscultural study of ritual | 23 |
Can we move beyond primitivism? On recovering the indigenes | 37 |
Friedrich Max Miiller indigenous | 71 |
some reflections from | 89 |
Tribal religious traditions are constantly devalued in Western | 111 |
concealed narratives | 128 |
religious and other | 149 |
New Yorks Haitian | 164 |
unmasking the neoarchaic | 200 |
Popular religions and modernity in Japan | 214 |
a view from | 245 |
representations of the wild man in Sri Lanka | 272 |
Melanesians and the cargo | 297 |
Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia | 314 |
Index | 343 |
Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous | 181 |
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