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This book includes the abstracts of all the papers presented at the 2nd Annual International Symposium on Religion and Theology, 22-25 May 2017, organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). In total 25 papers were submitted by 29 presenters, coming from 14 different countries (Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, India, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, UK, and USA). The conference was organized into 11 sessions that included a variety of topic areas such as medieval theology, ethics, and philosophy of ritual. A full conference program can be found beginning on the next page. In accordance with ATINER’s Publication Policy, the papers presented during this conference will be considered for inclusion in one of ATINER’s many publications.
Religion and American Culture Forum: The Religious Situation, Vol. 29, Issue 2 Summer 2019
Religion and American Culture, 2019
Forum As a regular feature of Religion and American Culture, the editors invite scholars to comment from different perspectives on an issue or problem central to the study of religion in its American context. The FORUM format is designed to foster the cross- disciplinary study of religion and American culture and to bring to the readers of the journal the latest thoughts of scholars on timely, substantial topics. Contributors to the FORUM are asked to present brief essays or “thought pieces” instead of carefully documented articles. This FORUM is a little different from those in the past. First, we decided to run a series of essays on a single topic through two issues in 2019. Second, we asked Ari Y. Kelman and Kathryn Lofton to serve as guest curators, assembling authors from different disciplines and perspectives to engage with a remarkable text from five decades ago, but with themes that still resonate today. The Religious Situation, 1968 (Part 2) This FORUM uses a volume published in 1968 to reflect on the religious situation today. The Religious Situation: 1968 announced its intention to be “The First in a Series of Annual Volumes.” As it turned out, only one additional volume was published, in 1969. The 1968 collection reprints famous essays (such as “Civil Religion in America” by Robert Bellah and “Religion as a Cultural System” by Clifford Geertz) and issues for the first time many more, including reports on South India and Japanese peace movements; reflections on idolatry, secularization, and secularity; and updates on Jews, Catholics, and Mormons. There is not a single female author; only one author is a person of color. Every essay speaks with enormous diagnostic confidence about its designated subject and with differing sensitivities toward the significant cultural and political tumult that have come to be associated with 1968. There is not a lot of mirth or irony. In other words: This is a volume very much of its time. Any historian would recognize many contextual elements that indicate its specific moment. Authors generally agree that church attendance is on the decline. Contributors see Vatican II as an inevitable liberalization of the Catholic Church. The Protestants think ecumenism is on the rise. Cold War fears about Russia and the Global South unite several essays, and Cold War glee about American exceptionalism define the tenor of optimism about religious freedom throughout. Nobody mentions the 1965 Immigration Act, and none of the authors sense the Silent Majority that will soon fuel the rise of evangelical voices in the public sphere. So why return to this volume? Because its authors seek to describe their religious moment and diagnose what their futures might be. This exercise is something of a scholarly ritual, and one we thought it valuable to revisit, with the perspective of fifty years since the original publication. What emerged was less a reflection on “the religious situation” in 1968, and more of a collection of perspectives on how things have changed and how they have not. We asked scholars to reflect on a specific essay, and answer two questions: Does the essay’s argument stand the test of time? What do you think is the status of its subject today? We don’t assume anyone has read all of the essays in The Religious Situation: 1968, so we encouraged the contributors to be inspired by, but not defined by, those original essays. We hope readers can use these essays to think about the status of certain perennial subjects in the study of American religion.
SBL/AAR, 2021
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Editors' Introduction, Fieldwork in Religion, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2019
Fieldwork in Religion, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2019
The second issue of Fieldwork in Religion for 2019 contains five research articles that are all highly contemporary in both subject matter and approaches. The authors have engaged with emergent fieldwork contexts including fan conven- tions and the psychedelics subculture, the social media phenomenon of Twitter, and insights from the French Marxist group Situationist International (SI) in the exploration of the sacred in twenty-first-century urban environments.
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Why we are in Need of Negative Theology - The Destructive Role of Religion Proves Martha Nussbaum Wrong, 2019
„Religion creates culture, religion schools people in social skills such as empathy“ stated Martha Nussbaum in her famous study of 2003, „Upheavals of Thought“. The contrary seems to be true, with a quick glance at what religious wars today, even at the threshould of our home, create in terms of violence, hatred and barbarism, oftenly starting with a discussion about words and discriminating „infidels―. In order to complete the somewhat fragmentary picture of what religion may or may not create in regard of culture Nussbaum paints, I would like to point out the hidden history of negative theology. Negative theology was a philosophical idea not exclusively claimed by certain schools, but a lineage commonly shared by those thinkers whose respect for the source of being was unrestricted by religious dogma. Starting with Plotin, Proklus and Dionysos Areopagita, then challenging mystics of the medieval age such as Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa, negative theology proved to be a philosophical „way without a way― to describe the source of being above all confessional discussions. God, in their opinion, is neither good nor bad, neither white nor black, neither male nor female, the One is above all attributions, even the best, because attributions describe a being partially, which is not compatible with source which is one-and-all. Therefore, the „metaphysics of the One― states that all religion basically means the same in different conventions of terminology, thus, that every war about words is useless, that culture is created not in the worship of a being superior, but in the worship of the divine source within mankind itself – a true humanist view. In my opinion, we as a global society today with more and more open borders are in massive need of negative theology in order to cope with the potential of violence which is hidden within religion itself. If we intend to end religious wars, we must adopt the philosophical insights of the negative theologians and humanists of the past, and we must adopt them quickly, as there is few time left.