Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy

Informationen zum Autor Hugh B. Urban is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University, USA. He is the author of numerous books, including Secrecy (2021), The Church of Scientology (2010), Magia Sexualis (2005), and Tantra (2003). Paul Christopher Johnson is Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. His books include Secrets, Gossip and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé (2002), Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (2007), and Automatic Religion: Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France (2021). Klappentext An outstanding reference source for the key topics, problems and debates in this crucial field and the first collection of its kind. Essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, comparative religion, new religious movements and religion and politics and related disciplines. Zusammenfassung An outstanding reference source for the key topics, problems and debates in this crucial field and the first collection of its kind. Essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, comparative religion, new religious movements and religion and politics and related disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: From the Social Lives of Secrecy to the Secret lives of the Social: Notes on Religion, Power, and the Public Paul Christopher Johnson and Hugh B. Urban Part 1: Configurations of Religious Secrecy: Conceptual and Comparative Frameworks 1. Mysticism and Secrecy Arthur Versluis 2. Esotericism and Secrecy Kennet Granholm 3. Gender, Sexuality, and Secrecy Hugh B. Urban 4. Psychedelics and Secrecy Christopher Partridge 5. Architectures of Secrecy Paul Christopher Johnson 6. Secrecy, the Paranormal, and the Imaginal: The Remote Viewing Literature Jeffrey J. Kripal and Christopher Senn Part 2: Secrecy as Religious Practice 7. Secrecy in Islam, Sufism, and Shi’ism Mark Sedgwick 8. Concealing the Concealment: Towards a Theopolitics of Kabbalistic Esotericism Elliot R. Wolfson 9. Keeping Secrets: The Social Practice of Gnostic Secrecy April D. DeConick 10. Secrecy’s Situational Ironies: Hiding and Its Consequences for Covert Buddhists in Japan Clark Chilson 11. Notions of Secrecy and the Unknown/ Hidden in Chinese Religions Barend ter Haar 12. Secrecy in South Asian Hindu Traditions: "The Gods Love What is Occult" Gordan Djurdjevic 13. Reflections on Secrecy in Yolngu Religion Ian Keen 14. AWO: The Nature of Secrecy in YoruÌbaì Religious Traditions: Conversations with Ifa Diviners Jacob K. Olupona Part 3: Secrecy and the Politics of the Present 15. Secrecy and Freemasonry Henrik Bogdan 16. The Sacred, the "Secret," and the Sinister in the Latter-day Saint Tradition Christopher James Blythe 17. The High Magic of Jesus Christ: Materializing Secrets in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn Kelly E. Hayes 18. Secrecy, Sex Abuse, and The Practice of Priesthood John C. Seitz 19. From Resistance to Terror: The Open Secret of Jonestown Rebecca Moore Part 4: Secrecy and Social Resistance 20. "Crypto-Paganism" in the Late Antique World: Models of Concealment in a Christian Empire, Fourth to Sixth Century CE David Frankfurter 21. Hopi Knowledge and the Ethnographic Allure of Secrets Adam Fulton Johnson 22. Secrecy, Spirit Work, and Women’s Fugitive Speech in the Creolophone Caribbean Elizabeth McAlister 23. Lifting the Eucharistic Veil : Allan Rohan Crite as Afro–Anglican Mystagogue Hugh R. Page, Jr. and Stephen C. Finley Part 5: Secrecy, Terrorism, and Surveillance 24. Weaponizing Secrecy: The FBI’s War on Black Radical Religion Sylvester Joh...

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Introduction: From the Social Lives of Secrecy to the Secret lives of the Social: Notes on Religion, Power, and the Public Paul Christopher Johnson and Hugh B. Urban  Part 1: Configurations of Religious Secrecy: Conceptual and Comparative Frameworks  1. Mysticism and Secrecy Arthur Versluis  2. Esotericism and Secrecy Kennet Granholm  3. Gender, Sexuality, and Secrecy Hugh B. Urban  4. Psychedelics and Secrecy Christopher Partridge  5. Architectures of Secrecy Paul Christopher Johnson  6. Secrecy, the Paranormal, and the Imaginal: The Remote Viewing Literature Jeffrey J. Kripal and Christopher Senn  Part 2: Secrecy as Religious Practice  7. Secrecy in Islam, Sufism, and Shi'ism Mark Sedgwick  8. Concealing the Concealment: Towards a Theopolitics of Kabbalistic Esotericism Elliot R. Wolfson  9. Keeping Secrets: The Social Practice of Gnostic Secrecy April D. DeConick  10. Secrecy's Situational Ironies: Hiding and Its Consequences for Covert Buddhists in Japan Clark Chilson  11. Notions of Secrecy and the Unknown/ Hidden in Chinese Religions Barend ter Haar  12. Secrecy in South Asian Hindu Traditions: "The Gods Love What is Occult" Gordan Djurdjevic  13. Reflections on Secrecy in Yolngu Religion Ian Keen  14. AWO: The Nature of Secrecy in YoruÌbaì Religious Traditions: Conversations with Ifa Diviners Jacob K. Olupona  Part 3: Secrecy and the Politics of the Present  15. Secrecy and Freemasonry Henrik Bogdan  16. The Sacred, the "Secret," and the Sinister in the Latter-day Saint Tradition Christopher James Blythe  17. The High Magic of Jesus Christ: Materializing Secrets in Brazil's Valley of the Dawn Kelly E. Hayes  18. Secrecy, Sex Abuse, and The Practice of Priesthood John C. Seitz  19. From Resistance to Terror: The Open Secret of Jonestown Rebecca Moore  Part 4: Secrecy and Social Resistance  20. "Crypto-Paganism" in the Late Antique World: Models of Concealment in a Christian Empire, Fourth to Sixth Century CE David Frankfurter  21. Hopi Knowledge and the Ethnographic Allure of Secrets Adam Fulton Johnson  22. Secrecy, Spirit Work, and Women's Fugitive Speech in the Creolophone Caribbean Elizabeth McAlister  23. Lifting the Eucharistic Veil: Allan Rohan Crite as Afro-Anglican Mystagogue Hugh R. Page, Jr. and Stephen C. Finley  Part 5: Secrecy, Terrorism, and Surveillance  24. Weaponizing Secrecy: The FBI's War on Black Radical Religion Sylvester Johnson  25. Varieties of Secrecy and Symbolism in American White Power Movements Damon Berry  26. The Islamic State and the Management of Secrecy Haroro J. Ingram and Craig Whiteside  27. Conspiracy Theories about Secret Religions: Imagining the Other David G. Robertson  28. Xenophobia and Conspiracism after 9/11 Michael Barkun  29. Imagining Secret Wars Mark Juergensmeyer.  Index

Product details

• Authors: Hugh B. (Ohio State University Urban
• Assisted by: Paul Christopher Johnson (Editor), Johnson Paul Christopher (Editor), Hugh B. Urban (Editor), Urban Hugh B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2022
• EAN: 9780367857417
• ISBN: 978-0-367-85741-7
• No. of pages: 426
• Series: Routledge Handbooks in Religion
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Fundamentalism, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, comparative religion, RELIGION / Cults, RELIGION / Demonology & Satanism, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Religion & politics, Religion and Politics, RELIGION / Scientology