Alternative voices
Subtitle: a plurality approach for religious studies : essays in honor of Ulrich Berner
By: edited by Afe Adogame, Magnus Echtler, Oliver Freiberger
Series: Critical studies in religion/Religionswissenschaft -- volume 4; Critical studies in religion, Religionswissenschaft -- volume 4.
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: ger
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9783525540176; 9783647540177
Subjects: Religions; Religiöser Pluralismus; Religionswissenschaft
Description: "When scholarship presents the histories, belief systems, and ritual patterns of specific religious groups, it often privileges victorious and élite fractions of those communities to the detriment and neglect of alternative, dissonant, and resurgent voices. The contributions in this volume, which include case studies on various religions and academic contexts, illustrate the importance of listening to those alternative voices for the study of religion."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and German.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Afe Adogame, Magnus Echtler, Oliver Freiberger; title: pt. 1. "Religion" as a contested category. Do Ādivāsīs have religion? Contesting "religion" and "culture" in Eastern Gujarat / Gregory D. Alles ; Erschriebene religion: die Viefalt der Stimmen in den Religionserzählungen des moderner Durchbruchs / Dirk Johannsen ; Aufgabe und Gegenstand der Religionswissenschaft: Von Religion über das religiöse Feld zu Arten der Religiosität / Johannes Quack; title: pt. 2. The plurality of voices in religious, cultural, and ethnic encounters. The slaves of Allah: Ifa divination portrayal of Islamic tradition: an intertextual encounter / Jacob K. Olupona ; Syncretistic positions in Chinese temples / Michael Pye ; The (surprising absence of a) Mithras cult in Roman Egypt / Luther H. Martin ; Griechen und Juden: Skythen und Barbaren: Ethnizität, kulturelle Dominanz und Marginalität im Neuen Testament / Lukas Bormann ; Prophets for profit: pentecostal authority and fiscal accountability among Nigerian churches in South Africa / Asonzeh Ukah; title: pt. 3. Alternative voices within religious traditions. Diverging Muslim views on health care in Sweden: an outline of a new research field / David Westerlund ; Contested Shari'ah: one law, many interpretations, diverging interests / Gabriele Cappai ; Re-opening the canon: the transformation of Shona indigenous religion in the face of HIV and AIDS in rural Zimbabwe / Ezra Chitando ; Was ist ein Heiligtum? Pluralität als Gegenstand der Religionswissenschaft / Jörg Rüpke ; Ritual murders and wealth inequality in modern Uganda / Wotsuna Khamalwa ; Drinking the Quran, swallowing the Madonna: embodied aesthetics of popular healing practices / Katharina Wilkens ; Neo-primal anti-witchcraft movements and DMR: a comparative study of the Moavu-Embaga of the Egoon and Adzov of the Tiv of Central Nigeria / Umar Habila Dadem Danfulani, Theophilus John Angbashim; title: pt. 4. Plurality in the study of religion. Ist religiöse Vielfalt etwas Gutes? Pluralismus und Pluralität in der Religionswissenschaft / Christoph Bochinger ; The transmission of an authoritative tradition: that without which religion is not religion / James L. Cox ; My liberation needs yours: ethics, truth, and inclusion in academic life / James V. Spickard.