Dynamics in the history of religions between Asia and Europe : encounters, notions, and comparative perspectives /

This first volume of the series ¿́¿Dynamics in the History of Religions¿́¿ reviews the opening conference of the 'Ka¿te Hamburger Kolleg¿́¿ at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The first section concentrates on the formation of what later come to be termed 'world religions ' through inter...

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Corporate Authors: Interdisciplinary Consortium for Research in the Humanities "Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe" Ruhr Universität Bochum, JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Krech, Volkhard, Steinicke, Marion
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Series:Dynamics in the history of religion ; v. 1.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This first volume of the series ¿́¿Dynamics in the History of Religions¿́¿ reviews the opening conference of the 'Ka¿te Hamburger Kolleg¿́¿ at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The first section concentrates on the formation of what later come to be termed 'world religions ' through inter-religious contact, the second part focuses on the significance of interreligious contacts also during their expansive phase. Methodological problems of multi-perspective research and especially the lack of a general religious terminology are discussed in the third chapter, while the final papers outline various aspects of secularization and (re-)sacralisation in the age of globalisation as an effect of multicultural contacts in a world wide web of religious interferences.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9004225358
9789004225350