Roma Pentecostals Narrating Identity, Trauma, and Renewal in Croatia and Serbia

Roma Pentecostals Narrating Identity, Trauma, and Renewal in Croatia and Serbia
Author: Melody Wachsmuth
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2022-10-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004518975

The life stories of Roma Pentecostals in Croatia and Serbia reveal both significant hardship and resilience, which notably impacts how they incorporate a Pentecostal identity and the ways in which they transform their daily lives in accordance with Pentecostal theology.

State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2013

State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2013
Author: Beth Walker
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1907919406

In almost every country in the world, minorities and indigenous peoples suffer greater ill-health and receive poorer quality of care than other segments of the population. They die younger, face higher rates of disease and struggle more to access health services compared to the rest of the population. This year's edition of State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples presents a global picture of the health issues experienced by minorities and indegenous communities, features country profiles and case studies, and makes recommendations for addressing these key issues.

Diasporas Reimagined

Diasporas Reimagined
Author: Nando Sigona
Publisher:
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2015
Genre: Assimilation (Sociology)
ISBN: 9781907271083

Languages of Islam and Christianity in Post-Soviet Russia

Languages of Islam and Christianity in Post-Soviet Russia
Author: Gulnaz Sibgatullina
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2020-06-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004426450

This book examines how Muslims and Christians in Russia use religious variants of the Russian and Tatar languages to sustain, challenge and subvert relations of power.

Sources of Slavic Pre-Christian Religion

Sources of Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004441387

In Sources of Slavic Pre-Christian Religion Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa presents all known medieval texts that provide us with information about the religion practiced by the Slavs before their Christianization.

A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe

A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe
Author: Howard Louthan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004301623

A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe analyses the diverse Christian cultures of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Czech lands, Austria, and lands of the Hungarian kingdom between the 15th and 18th centuries. It establishes the geography of Reformation movements across this region, and then considers different movements of reform and the role played by Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox clergy. This volume examines different contexts and social settings for reform movements, and investigates how cities, princely courts, universities, schools, books, and images helped spread ideas about reform. This volume brings together expertise on diverse lands and churches to provide the first integrated account of religious life in Central Europe during the early modern period. Contributors are: Phillip Haberkern, Maciej Ptaszyński, Astrid von Schlachta, Márta Fata, Natalia Nowakowska, Luka Ilić, Michael Springer, Edit Szegedi, Mihály Balázs, Rona Johnston Gordon, Howard Louthan, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Liudmyla Sharipova, Alexander Schunka, Rudolf Schlögl, Václav Bůžek, Mark Hengerer, Michael Tworek, Pál Ács, Maria Crăciun, Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Laura Lisy-Wagner, and Graeme Murdock.

Islam, Christianity, and Secularism in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe

Islam, Christianity, and Secularism in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe
Author: Simeon Evstatiev
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2022-04-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004511563

Bulgaria’s entangled Muslim and Orthodox Christian pasts still shape contemporary notions of identity, religion, and politics—and secularism—in unexpected ways. This book freshly looks at how these vital traditions come up against one another and the challenges of the world today.

The Piety of Learning: Islamic Studies in Honor of Stefan Reichmuth

The Piety of Learning: Islamic Studies in Honor of Stefan Reichmuth
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2017-08-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004349847

The Piety of Learning testifies to the strong links between religious and secular scholarship in Islam, and reaffirms the role of philology for understanding Muslim societies both past and present. Senior scholars discuss Islamic teaching philosophies since the 18th century in Nigeria, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia, Russia, and Germany. Particular attention is paid to the power of Islamic poetry and to networks and practices of the Tijāniyya, Rifā‘iyya, Khalwatiyya, Naqshbandiyya, and Shādhiliyya Sufi brotherhoods. The final section highlights some unusual European encounters with Islam, and features a German Pietist who traveled through the Ottoman Empire, a Habsburg officer who converted to Islam in Bosnia, a Dutch colonial Islamologist who befriended a Salafi from Jeddah, and a Soviet historian who preserved Islamic manuscripts. Contributors are: Razaq ‘Deremi Abubakre; Bekim Agai; Rainer Brunner; Alfrid K. Bustanov; Thomas Eich; Ralf Elger; Ulrike Freitag; Michael Kemper; Markus Koller; Anke von Kügelgen; Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen; Armina Omerika; Amidu Olalekan Sanni; Yaşar Sarikaya; Rüdiger Seesemann; Shamil Sh. Shikhaliev; Diliara M. Usmanova.

Constructs of Meaning and Religious Transformation

Constructs of Meaning and Religious Transformation
Author: Herman Westerink
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3847100998

One of the major trends in the psychology of religion is the growing interest in religious and spiritual meaning making in relation to religious and spiritual transformation processes, notably as the aftermath of traumatic experiences and in situations of crisis, stress or disease when personal well-being is at stake and coping activities and skills are enhanced. This volume covers this broad and complex area of interrelated issues. The contributions focus on religious and spiritual meaning making and transformation. They do not compose an integrated perspective on religious meaning making and transformation processes. Rather, this volume assembles and presents the current state of research on this complex of issues. Thus it not only provides an excellent overview of the psychological study of constructs of meaning and religious transformation, but also contributes to our knowledge of contemporary religious life in the context of socio-cultural transformation processes (pluralisation, globalization).

The Gniezno Summit

The Gniezno Summit
Author: Roman Michałowski
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004317511

In The Gniezno Summit Roman Michałowski analyses the reasons behind the founding of the Archbishopric of Gniezno during Otto III’s encounter with Bolesław Chrobry in Gniezno in 1000. For Michałowski there were two main reasons. One was the martyrdom of St. Adalbert, the Apostle of the Prussians. His body was buried in Gniezno, which put the Gniezno bishopric on a par with bishoprics founded by the Apostles. This was an important argument in favour of Gniezno being raised to the rank of archbishopric. The other reason was Otto III’s spirituality. The emperor was fascinated with the idea of asceticism and abandoning the world. Hence his political programme, the Renovatio Imperii Romanorum, also had religious aims, and Otto tried to support missions among the pagans. To that end he needed an archbishopric on the north-eastern outskirts of the Empire.