Invention of Tradition and Syncretism in Contemporary Religions Sacred Creativity /
This book explores manifestations of creativity in the religious domain. Specifically, the contributions focus on the nexus of the sacred and the creative, and the mechanisms of syncretism and (re)invention of tradition by which this manifestations occur. The text is divided into two sections. In th...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61097-9 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Changing the Sacred: Creative Paths of Religious Experience
- 2. The itako of Tōhoku: between tradition and change
- 3. Invisibility or marginality? Assessing religious diversification among women shamans in Eastern Siberia
- 4. Evolution of tradition in the Rāmānandī order among hagiographies, Jagadguru and Maṭh
- 5. Re-membering the Goddess: the Avalon sacred path in Italy between tradition and innovation
- 6. Creative modalities of adaptation of a Hindu bodily form of rituality to Christian spirituality
- 7. The Syncretistic Religious landscape of contemporary Greece and Portugal: a comparative approach on creativity through spiritual synthesis
- 8. The new furnace: science, technology, innovation and religious life
- 9. Ritual creativity and ritual failure in popular Spanish Catholicism: a case study on reformism and miracles in La Mancha
- 10. Conclusion.