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This volume offers a wide variety of case studies ranging from Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism to new religious movements showing there is an increasing tendency among believers and nonbelievers to enjoy or play with religion.
Sommario
Introduction: Investigations in Enjoying Religion
Frans Jespers
Part I Enjoying Established Religions
1. Enjoying Islam: Trajectories of Star Performers in the Egyptian Piety Movement
Karin van Nieuwkerk
2. Fun and Faith in the Ganges: The Bodily and Spiritual Pleasures of River Bathing
Catrien Notermans
3. Fun-damentalism: "As If" Experiences at a Creationist Theme Park
James S. Bielo
4. Tantra: Ecstatic Enjoyment Way beyond Boundaries
Paul van der Velde
Part II Enjoying Transformed Religion
5. Merry Christmas! Religion in Norway
Ingvild Sælid Gilhus and Lisbeth Mikaelsson
6. "Our Play Pleases the Man, the Spirits of the Desert, and Whatever": Enjoying Religion at Burning Man
François Gauthier
7. Happinez, Zen, and Wealth
Frans Jespers
8. Celebrating With the Church of the SubGenius: X-Day Rituals of Bad Taste, Burning "Bob," and the End of the World (Not)
Carole M. Cusack
9. Beyond Morality. On Religion in Aesthetic Form
Jean-Pierre Wils
Info autore
Frans Jespers is associate professor of comparative religion at Radboud University, Nijmegen.Karin van Nieuwkerk is professor of Islam studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen.Paul van der Velde is professor of Asian religions at Radboud University, Nijmegen.Frans Jespers is associate professor of comparative religion at Radboud University, Nijmegen.Paul van der Velde is professor of Asian religions at Radboud University, Nijmegen.Karin van Nieuwkerk is professor of Islam studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen.
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This volume offers a wide variety of case studies ranging from Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism to new religious movements showing there is an increasing tendency among believers and nonbelievers to enjoy or play with religion.
