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SoSe 13: Religion in the 19th Century: Global History Perspectives

Sebastian Conrad

Kommentar

In the nineteenth century, the notion of religion experienced a fundamental transformation. On the one hand, the process of secularization began to threaten the place of belief and religious cosmologies in modern society. On the other hand, missionary activity and the rise of world religions helped spread, and transform, religious creed and practices around the world. Over the course of the seminar, we will look into the effects of these transformations for a variety of religions around the world; and we will discuss how a global history perspective may help to understand these changes. This is an English-language seminar. Schließen

Literaturhinweise

References: Tomoko Masuzawa, The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism, Chicago (Chicago University Press) 2005; José Casanova, Public Religions in the Modern World, Chicago (University of Chicago Press) 1994; Richard King, Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and ‚The Mystic East,' London (Routledge) 1999; Peter Beyer, Religion and Globalization, London 1994; Andrew Porter, Religion Versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914, Manchester (Manchester University Press) 2004; Jean and John L. Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa, 2 vols, Chicago (University of Chicago Press) 1991, 1997. Schließen