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J. D. Y. Peel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ramon Sarró, The Politics of Religious Change on The Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm Done and Undone
Etnográfica: Revista do Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, 2011Co-Authors: J. D. Y. PeelAbstract:Ramon Sarro’s The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast – which was originally meant to be known by its subtitle Iconoclasm Done and Undone – is No. 38 in the International African Library (IAL), the monograph series of the International African Institute (IAI). Its aim is to publish high-quality ethnography, and it is in the light of the changing requirements for ethnographic writing that I shall comment on Sarro’s book. The IAI is the oldest continuous outlet for the public...
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gender in yoruba Religious Change
Journal of Religion in Africa, 2002Co-Authors: J. D. Y. PeelAbstract:This paper explores the relevance of gender to the reception of Christianity and to early church life in nineteenth-century Yorubaland. These were profoundly shaped by the gender conceptions prevalent in indigenous society and religion. Though the indigenous gods ( orisa ) lacked gender as a fixed or intrinsic attribute, gender conceptions were projected on to them. Witchcraft was mostly attributed to women both as its victims and as its perpetrators, and with men and ancestral cults chiefly responsible for its control. There was an overlap between the social placement of witches and Christian converts, both being relatively marginal. Religious practice was also strongly gendered, with women preponderant in the cult of most orisa , but men in the main oracular cult, Ifa. Women found something of an equivalent in the cult of Ori, or personal destiny. The missions initially met their readiest response among young men, who were less tied to the orisa cults than women were. By the second generation the balance shifted, as male prestige values were incompatible with full church membership and women came more to the fore in congregational life. As an aspect of this, the church took on many of the concerns that the orisa cults had offered women—a token of this being the honorific use of the term 'mother'. In the end it is less gender per se than the gender/age conjunction that is critical.
Sue Morgan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth-Century Britain - Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth-Century Britain
2013Co-Authors: Lucy Delap, Sue MorganAbstract:List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Post-Christian Britain Lucy Delap and Sue Morgan 1. Buddhist Psychologies and Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century Britain Alison Falby 2. 'The People of God dressed for dinner and dancing'? English Catholic Masculinity, Religious Sociability and the Catenian Association Alana Harris 3. 'To their credit as Jews and Englishmen': Services for Youth and the Shaping of Jewish Masculinity in Britain, 1890s-1930s Susan L. Tananbaum 4. 'Be Strong and Play the Man': Anglican Masculinities in the Twentieth Century Lucy Delap 5. The Emergence of a British Hindu Identity between 1936 and 1937 Sumita Mukherjee 6. 'Iron strength and infinite tenderness': Herbert Gray and the Making of Christian Masculinities at War and at Home, 1900-1940' Sue Morgan 7. Moral Welfare and Social Wellbeing: The Church of England and the Emergence of Modern Homosexuality Timothy W. Jones 8. Why examine men, masculinities and religion in Northern Ireland? Sean Brady 9. British Pakistani Masculinities: Longing and Belonging Amaah De Sondy 10. 'Laboratories'of Gender? Masculinities, Spirituality and New Religious Movements in Late Twentieth-century Britain Stephen Hunt 11. Men losing faith: the Making of Modern no-religionism in the UK, 1939-2010 Callum G. Brown Select Bibliography Index
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Introduction: Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Post-Christian Britain
Men Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth-Century Britain, 2013Co-Authors: Lucy Delap, Sue MorganAbstract:Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth-Century Britain investigates the influence of religion on the formation of men as gendered and sexual beings. It surveys a geographical and historical period — twentieth-century Britain — which has witnessed profound Changes in both Religious cultures and the gender order. This is a century which has generally been understood as secularising — or indeed, for men, largely secular — a process often represented historically as a loss. Male piety has been largely invisible, not least due to the scholarly emphasis upon women as the main inheritors and shapers of Britain’s heterogeneous Religious cultures. Observant or faithful men, where they have been addressed by historians, have been understood as paradoxical or unrepresentative of broader social, political and cultural trends. Powerfully influenced by the intellectual criticism of Christianity in the later nineteenth century as well as by the irreligion of popular culture in the same period, men have been more likely to see Religious morality and devotional practices as out of keeping with dominant worldly, financially competitive, physically aggressive or sexually promiscuous scripts for modern masculinity. According to one army chaplain in the World War I, British soldiers regarded the ‘modern business world and the practice of real discipleship’1 as irreconcilably antagonistic.
Ramon Sarro - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the politics of Religious Change on the upper guinea coast iconoclasm done and undone
2008Co-Authors: Ramon SarroAbstract:The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic Religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga farmers in the French colonial period. With an ethnographic approach that listens as carefully to those who suffered iconoclastic violence as to those who wanted to 'get rid of custom', this work discusses the extent to which iconoclasm produces a rupture of Religious knowledge and identity, and analyses its relevance in the making of modern nations and citizens. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, particularly those with an interest in the anthropology of religion, iconoclasm, the history and anthropology of West Africa, or the politics of heritage. *This book examines the historical complexity of the interface between Islam, tradition religions and Christianity in west Africa, and how this interface links with dramatic political Changes *It gives a detailed ethnographic approach through which such complex history is unveiled and analysed *It presents a dialogue between the field findings, a long tradition of anthropology and the most recent anthropological debates
Myungsahm Suh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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State Building and Religion: Explaining the Diverged Path of Religious Change in Taiwan and South Korea, 1950-1980
American Journal of Sociology, 2017Co-Authors: Chengpang Lee, Myungsahm SuhAbstract:In this article, the authors develop a theory of Religious Change based on the linked ecological understanding of the state-building process, to tackle the question of why the diverged path of Religious Change took place in South Korea and Taiwan in the 1970s. Specifically, this article aims to explain three related puzzles: (1) Given the fact that the growth of Christianity in Taiwan and South Korea was similar in the 1950s, why, in the late 1960s, did Christianity begin to grow explosively in South Korea while it stagnated in Taiwan? (2) Why did this explosive growth in South Korea occur during the Park Chung Hee regime? (3) Why did other religions (e.g., Buddhism) also grow rapidly in South Korea during the same period? Using several original materials, the authors demonstrate the central role of different state-building processes in sparking the diverged Religious Change in these two societies.
Alexandra Walsham - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Migrations of the Holy: Explaining Religious Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2014Co-Authors: Alexandra WalshamAbstract:How do we conceptualize and explain Religious Change in medieval and early modern Europe without perpetuating distorting paradigms inherited from the very era of the past that is the subject of our study? How can we do justice to historical development over time without resorting to linear grand narratives that have their intellectual origins in the very movements that we seek to comprehend? In one way or another, this challenging question has inspired all my published work to date, which has focused on the ways in which early modern society adapted to the Religious revolutions that unfolded before it. My work has explored the ambiguities, anomalies, and ironies that accompany dramatic moments of ideological and cultural rupture. It has sought to balance recognition of the decisive transformations wrought by the Protestant and Catholic Reformations with awareness of the complexities and contradictions that characterized their evolution and entrenchment in practice. It has been marked by a consuming interest in the currents of continuity that tempered, mediated, and even facilitated the upheavals of the early modern era. One consequence of this preoccupation with analyzing how and why cultures are held in tension and suspension during critical phases of transition is that I have been very much less effective in acknowledging and accounting for Religious Change itself. This is my Achilles’ heel as a historian, and one that I share with a number of other historians of my generation. In our strenuous efforts to avoid reproducing models of interpretation predi cated on the notion of progress toward modernity, I fear that (to mix the metaphor) we have sometimes been in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. In preparing this article, I have become painfully aware of the extent to which I am both a product and a prisoner of the historiographical
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the reformation of the generations youth age and Religious Change in england c 1500 1700
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2011Co-Authors: Alexandra WalshamAbstract:This exploratory essay adopts the life-cycle as a tool with which to investigate Religious Change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It examines how inherited tropes about youth and age were deployed and the ways in which the notion of generational strife was invoked at various stages of England's long Reformation. These provide insight into how contemporaries understood and experienced the theological and cultural upheavals of the era and the process by which Protestantism ‘aged’ as it progressed beyond its unruly protest phase and became institutionalised as the official faith.
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THE REFORMATION OF THE GENERATIONS: YOUTH, AGE AND Religious Change IN ENGLAND, c . 1500–1700
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2011Co-Authors: Alexandra WalshamAbstract:This exploratory essay adopts the life-cycle as a tool with which to investigate Religious Change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It examines how inherited tropes about youth and age were deployed and the ways in which the notion of generational strife was invoked at various stages of England's long Reformation. These provide insight into how contemporaries understood and experienced the theological and cultural upheavals of the era and the process by which Protestantism ‘aged’ as it progressed beyond its unruly protest phase and became institutionalised as the official faith.