Religion and Society: Volume 4: Advances in Research - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857452134 ISBN 13: 9780857452139

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2013

Synopsis

This volume begins with a portrait of Bruce Kapferer, whose complex and rich contributions to the study of religion and ritual have had an influence that extends far beyond his own research concerns. His interests encompass many of the themes in this volume, including the political dimensions and potentialities of religion through ritual, rituals as generative events, ritual time, and the intersection of psychoanalysis and anthropology. Also in this volume, the 2012 buzz surrounding the Mayan calendar conjures a debate concerning the intersection of religion and environmental apocalypticism; a celebration of the centenary of the publication of Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo; problems of generation and belief; rethinking Christianity from an urban perspective; secularism and its ramifications; the implicit and explicit temporalizations involved in the study of animism; and the invocation of phenomenological approaches in the study of materiality and animism.

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About the Author:

Andrea Mammone is Assistant Professor of Modern History in the Centre for Historical Record at Kingston University London (UK). He has authored research articles on fascism, the extreme Right, and collective memory, the latest of which have been published in Contemporary European History, the Journal of Contemporary European Studies and Studi Storici. He has co-edited, Italy Today. The Sick Man of Europe, a best-selling volume, translated into Italian. He is currently authoring a monograph on the transnational history of neo-fascism in France and Italy and editing a collection of essays on transnational and universal fascism. Emmanuel Godin is Principal Lecturer in French and European Studies in the School of Languages and Area Studies at the University of Portsmouth (UK). He works on French history, politics, and society, including the extreme Right, and religion and politics. He has co-authored, among others, France 1815-2003 (with Martin Evans), and has recently co-edited The French Exception? (with Tony Chafer) and France and the Mediterranean (with Natalya Vince). He is currently working on a monograph on France since the 1970s to be published by Reaktion book. Brian Jenkins was Senior Research Professor in the Department of French at the University of Leeds (UK) until 2009. He has written extensively on French nationalism and on theories of nationalism, notably as the author of Nationalism in France: Class and Nation since 1789 and as co-editor of Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe. Recently he has returned to the study of the French extreme Right between the world wars, editing France in the Era of Fascism: Essays on the French Authoritarian Right, and contributing to Le Mythe de l'Allergie Francaise au Fascisme (edited by Michel Dobry). He is co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Subject: Politics & Economics, Sociology, History

Review:

- a very welcome addition to current studies on the extreme or radical right in Europe - all the chapters are of high quality, offering empirical case studies informed by current scholarly debates and theoretical frameworks - the case studies encompass western, eastern, northern and southern Europe, thereby providing a very solid overview of parties and movements across Europe.A" * Anna Bull, University of Bath

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857452134
• ISBN 13: 9780857452139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Blanes Ruy Llera, Coleman Professor Simon, Sarro Professor Ramon