scholarly journals The Acceptance of New Religions on Java in the Nineteenth Century and the Emergence of Various Muslim and Christian Currents

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Maryse Kruithof
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Religious Adaptation

Abstract  My Ph.D.- dissertation analyzes the work of six Dutch missionaries on Java in the period of 1850 until 1920. Besides analyzing their proselytizing strategies, I reserched on the missionaries’ reflections on their work and the reformed strategies that followed those reflections and their views on the religious context they worked in as well as how they perceived the process of admission of new religions. My focus is not only on the arrival and acceptance of Christianity, but also the Islamization process of Java, since the missionaries tried to elucidate that procesin order to benefit from it. As part of my dissertation, this paper will focus on the formation of various Muslim and Christian currents in the second half of the nineteenth century in order to elucidate the process of religious adaptation on Java.

MURDER ON THE BRAZOS: THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT OF THE POPULIST REVOLT

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Postel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Baylor University ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Central Texas ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City

In the 1880s and ‘90s, Waco, Texas, served as a trading center for the cotton districts of central Texas whose farmers gave rise to the Farmers’ Alliance and turned the region into a Populist hotbed. Waco was also known as the “City of Churches,” as it was the site of Baylor University and other efforts of evangelical churches to build up their institutions. What is less well known is that Waco and its rural environs were also hotbeds of religious heterodoxy. Waco's Iconoclast magazine became a lightning rod of conflict between the Baptists and their skeptical and liberal critics, a conflict that played out to a murderous conclusion. Historians have taken due note of the evangelical environment in which the Populist movement emerged in late nineteenth-century rural America. But in the process the notion of evangelical belief has been too often rendered static and total. The Baptist-Iconoclast conflict in Waco provides an entry point for a better understanding of the dynamic and conflicted nature of the religious context, and the influence of liberal and heterodox ideas within the communities that sustained the Populist cause.

New Religious Movements in the Long Nineteenth Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
New Religions ◽  
The Impact

This introduction provides a brief overview of the period known as the “long nineteenth century,” which played host to and helped to shape numerous new religious movements. Highlighting the impact and occasional convergence of various political, social, and religious movements and events in both the United States and globally, this essay seeks to show that the examination of new religious movements in the nineteenth century offers a means of applying scholarship in new religious movements to religions that may be defined as “old,” while simultaneously opening new ways of understanding new religions more broadly. In the process, this overview provides background for the articles included in this special issue of Nova Religio, which explore subjects including religious utopianism; gender, politics, and Pentecostalism; Mormonism and foreign missions; and the relationships of new religious movements to visual art.

scholarly journals Pioneers, Refugees, Exiles, and Transnationals: Gendering Diaspora in an Ethno-Religious Context

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-153
Author(s):  
Marlene Epp
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central America ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
World War ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Political Exile ◽  
Second World

Abstract This paper examines four women who immigrated to Canada within diasporas originating in disparate times and places: an Amish woman escaping persecution in Bavaria in the early nineteenth century; a woman displaced from Ukraine during the Second World War; a political exile from Central America in the 1980s; and a contemporary transnational migrant with homes in Canada and Mexico. While they all identify with a particular ethno-religious community, the Mennonites, their commonalities rest more on similar experiences of uprooting and settlement, as well as their familial roles. In the case of each story, the diasporic experience de-stabilized gender identities and revealed the mutability of ethno-religious markers. The paper suggests that frameworks of diaspora and transnational movement offer a better way to understand the gendered experiences of these women, rather than traditional ideological and progressive concepts of migration.

scholarly journals En torno al Serapeum de Cartago = About the Serapeum of Carthage

2017 ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Garcia Sanchez ◽  
José Luis Córdoba de la Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Roman Religion ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Roman Provinces ◽  
Sobre Todo

El fenómeno de los cultos egipcios en la religión y en la sociedad romana se plasmó más allá de la región del Nilo, y la zona del Magreb africano fue uno de los territorios donde la presencia de estas devociones tuvo más incisión e influencia. Las relaciones comerciales de las provincias romanas en África y sobre todo de sus ciudades costeras extendieron muchos de estos cultos de raíz popular por regiones con una fuerte cultura propia anterior, como era la zona de Cartago. Y es gracias a la arqueología que nos podemos acercar a este panorama religioso, sobre todo a través de las expediciones académicas y científicas decimonónicas llevadas a cabo muchas veces por instituciones y arqueólogos de Francia, país que ejercía su poder colonial en Túnez. El estudio de las piezas que recuperaron, muchas de ellas albergadas actualmente en museos norteafricanos y franceses, permite reconstruir la evolución de este contexto social y religioso en el caso del dios Serapis y de su sede de culto en Cartago.Egyptian cults in the Roman religion and society took shape beyond de Nile region, and the area of the African Magreb was one of the territories where the Egyptian devotions had more influence. The commercial relations of the Roman provinces in Africa and especially of its coastal cities extended many of these cults of popular roots by regions with a strong previous culture, as in the area of Carthage. It is possible to approach to this religious panorama thanks to Archaeology, particularly trough the nineteenth century academic and scientific expeditions carried out by French institutions and archeologist; at the time, France exercised the colonial control over Tunisia.  The study of the archaeological pieces they recovered, many of them housed in Noth-African and French museums, allows the reconstruction of the evolution of this social and religious context in the case of the god Serapis and the Serapeum of Carthage.

scholarly journals New religions as the postsecular epiphenomenon of globalisation in the contemporary Ukrainian society

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Grabovska ◽  
Tetiana Talko ◽  
Tetiana Vlasova
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Label Change ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
New Religions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Ukrainian Society

The tendencies of postsecularism in the social life of today’s Ukraine are especially significant in their influence on the quasi-religious context of religious worships practiced in the country. These factors erode the modernity basis of the society, and Ukraine appears in the contradictory situation of its intention to complete the modernisation process and oppose the antiglobalistic isolationism. The neo-Protestant teachings and practices are obviouly connected with the principles of liberalism and consumerism. Neo-Oriental and new syncretic religions show that they produce significant influence on spreading globalistic views in the Ukrainian society. The marginality characteristics of new religions prove the idea that their values are a challenge to the essentialistic dichotomies of the Ukrainian traditional churches. The sociocultural and political context of globalisation and postmodernism includes religious transformations axiomatically, and the impact of both on the late capitalism stage is evident in different contexts. The culture of postmodernism makes this process complicated in the countries which are still between modernity and postmodernity. The processes of ‘label change’ are important with the stress on the substitution of the rationalistic foundation by quasi-scientific teachings. The conclusions demonstrate that the very incompleteness of the modernity has led to the expansion of the quasi-religious techniques in the social and cultural life of Ukraine. The erosion of the modernity values results in spreading new religions, which became vivid at the end of the last century. As globalisation promotes syncretic and neo-Oriental religions, antiglobalistic movements are supported by neo-pagan techniques and practices.

The Influence of Globalization on Japanese Religion

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 97-120
Author(s):  
Nobutaka Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
Traditional Religions ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Japanese Religion ◽  
Readiness To Adopt ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
The Many

The process of globalization has significantly and unprecedentedly influenced the activities, teachings, and many other aspects of religions within Japan since the 1980s. While Christian groups have been establishing churches in Japan since the nineteenth century, one now also sees various other religious groups including Muslims from a broad range of countries establishing branch churches and mosques of their own in the country. Meanwhile the many domestic modern new religions that were established during the modernization process now find themselves operating alongside even newer types of religious groups including hyper-religions. When one observes the religious life of ordinary Japanese these days, on the surface little may seem to have changed from before globalization developed in earnest. However, the pop subcultures of the younger generations have demonstrated a readiness to adopt and rearrange elements from religious and folk cultures alien to Japan even as they eschew elements from traditional folk life. The ways in which these foreign folk beliefs and their more magical elements have entered and spread in the country are often unpredictable. Thanks to globalization, the boundaries that once existed among Japanese religions—both among the traditional religions in particular and more generally throughout the religious world as a whole—are gradually dissolving.

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