Multiple Sacralities

Rethinking Sacralizations in European History

Contributions by Benedikt Brunner Contributions by Gregor Feindt Contributions by Bernhard Gißibl Contributions by Alessandro Grazi Contributions by Inga Mai Groote Contributions by Andrea Hofmann Contributions by Simone Horstmann Contributions by Thomas Kirchhoff Contributions by Erin Lambert Contributions by Johannes Paulmann Contributions by Lucyna Przybylska Contributions by John Carter Wood Edited by Bernhard Gißibl Edited by Andrea Hofmann

Book cover: Multiple Sacralities

Extent: 38 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Europaische Geschichte Mainz

Series volume number: 140

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2023)

ISBN: 9783525302453

6.3 x 9.25 inches

Price: $99.00

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How do we account for the multiplicity of sacred forms in the pluralist societies of today’s Europe? How do we account for the persistence and remarkable adaptability of traditional forms of the Christian sacred? How do we make sense of the colonized sacred that has come to haunt museums holding ethnographic collections of colonial origin across Europe? How do we explain the ongoing allure of instrumentalizing the sacred for political purposes, including warfare and the execution of excessive violence? And what do we make of the spread of nature spiritualities that have been so pertinent over the last half century that scholars wonder about the emergence of a new kind of “dark green religion”? This volume seeks to reflect upon how these multiple sacralizations can be studied and understood in historical and cross-disciplinary perspective.

  • Contributions by Benedikt Brunner
  • Contributions by Gregor Feindt
  • Contributions by Bernhard Gißibl
  • Contributions by Alessandro Grazi
  • Contributions by Inga Mai Groote
  • Contributions by Andrea Hofmann
  • Contributions by Simone Horstmann
  • Contributions by Thomas Kirchhoff
  • Contributions by Erin Lambert
  • Contributions by Johannes Paulmann
  • Contributions by Lucyna Przybylska
  • Contributions by John Carter Wood
  • Edited by Bernhard Gißibl
  • Edited by Andrea Hofmann