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Researching Global Religious Landscapes Peter Nynas

Researching Global Religious Landscapes By Peter Nynas

Researching Global Religious Landscapes by Peter Nynas


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This volume explores current challenges pertinent to cross-cultural research on religion in today's world. It reflects important aspects of global cultural and religious diversity. All articles stem from the international research project "Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective".

Researching Global Religious Landscapes Summary

Researching Global Religious Landscapes: A Methodology Between Universalism and Particularism by Peter Nynas

How should researchers navigate in a global landscape of religious and secular worldviews? This volume contributes with an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of contemporary religion in a cross-cultural or global perspective. The chapters in the volume highlight quite different themes - from translation to sexuality and secularity, critically dismantling conceptions of e.g., the "sacred individual", "Eastern religions" and multiple belongings. Yet, they are united in their search for signs that help us contest categorical cultural, religious, and secular boundaries, methodologically, theoretically, and epistemologically. The debate on universalism vs. particularism can simply not be put aside and hence, the implications of this dichotomy needs to be further investigated. The volume explores current challenges pertinent to cross-cultural research on religion in today's world. It reflects important aspects of global cultural and religious diversity. All articles stem from the international research project "Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective". The project implemented a mixed methods study in twelve different countries across the world. The chapters univocally stress the importance of using a sensitive analytical toolbox when investigating values and worldviews in an increasingly interconnected world. Nevertheless, such sensitivity needs to entail a capacity to move across boundaries and positions, giving voice to novel existential positions that do not fit within the traditional patterns of set religious and secular boundaries.

About Peter Nynas

Dr. Theol. Peter Nynas is Professor of Study of Religions at Abo Akademi University (AAU), Finland and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology. Dr Ruth Illman is the Director of the Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture in Turku, Finland. She holds the title of Docent in the study or religions at Abo Akademi University (AAU) and in the history of religions at Uppsala University, as well as doctoral degrees in the study of religions (2004) and Jewish studies (2018). Dr. Nurit Novis-Deutsch is a social psychologist researching values and moral development in the department of Learning and Instructional Sciences at the University of Haifa in Israel. Rafael Fernandez-Hart, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Facultad de Filosofia, Educacion y Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru. Dr. Theol. Peter Nynas is Professor of Study of Religions at Abo Akademi University (AAU), Finland and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology. Dr Ruth Illman is the Director of the Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture in Turku, Finland. She holds the title of Docent in the study or religions at Abo Akademi University (AAU) and in the history of religions at Uppsala University, as well as doctoral degrees in the study of religions (2004) and Jewish studies (2018). Dr. Nurit Novis-Deutsch is a social psychologist researching values and moral development in the department of Learning and Instructional Sciences at the University of Haifa in Israel. Rafael Fernandez-Hart, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Facultad de Filosofia, Educacion y Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru. Dr. Theol. Peter Nynas is Professor of Study of Religions at Abo Akademi University (AAU), Finland and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology. Dr Ruth Illman is the Director of the Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture in Turku, Finland. She holds the title of Docent in the study or religions at Abo Akademi University (AAU) and in the history of religions at Uppsala University, as well as doctoral degrees in the study of religions (2004) and Jewish studies (2018). Dr. Nurit Novis-Deutsch is a social psychologist researching values and moral development in the department of Learning and Instructional Sciences at the University of Haifa in Israel. Rafael Fernandez-Hart, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Facultad de Filosofia, Educacion y Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru. Dr. Theol. Peter Nynas is Professor of Study of Religions at Abo Akademi University (AAU), Finland and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology. Dr Ruth Illman is the Director of the Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture in Turku, Finland. She holds the title of Docent in the study or religions at Abo Akademi University (AAU) and in the history of religions at Uppsala University, as well as doctoral degrees in the study of religions (2004) and Jewish studies (2018). Dr. Nurit Novis-Deutsch is a social psychologist researching values and moral development in the department of Learning and Instructional Sciences at the University of Haifa in Israel. Rafael Fernandez-Hart, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Facultad de Filosofia, Educacion y Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru.

Table of Contents

Foreword Alana Vincent, University of Chester Editorial Preface Peter Nynas and Ruth Illman 1. Contesting the Dichotomy of Universalism and Particularism: A Mixed-Method Approach to the Study of Religions from a Global Perspective Peter Nynas, Ruth Illman and Nurit Novis-Deutsch 2. Translation and Major Categories in the Study of Religions: The Case of Religion and Spirituality in West Bengal Mans Broo (Abo Akademi University), Marcus Moberg (Abo Akademi University), Peter Nynas, Mallarika Sarkar Das (University of Calcutta) and Sohini Ray (Indian Institute of Management, Joka) 3. The Cognitive Study of Religiosity and Contemporary Lived Religion: Complementarity as a Methodological Approach Sawomir Sztajer (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) , Rafael Fernandez-Hart, Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo (University of Ghana) and Sidney Castillo (University of Helsinki) 4. Heteronormative Religion? Attitudes to Abortion and Same-Sex Relationships on a Global Scale Peter Nynas, Ariela Keysar (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut), Clara Marlijn Meyer (Abo Akademi University) and Sofia Sjo (Donner Institute, Turku) 5. The Multiplicity of Chinese and Indian Religions: A Critical Reappraisal of the Notion of Eastern Religion Mans Broo and Ruby Sain (Jadavpur University / Adamamas University) 6. Conceptualisations of the Sacred Individual: A Comparative Study of Russian and Finnish Young Adults Polina Vrublevskaya (St. Tikhons University, Moscow), Marcus Moberg (Abo Akademi University) and Karoliina Dahl (Abo Akademi University) 7. Secular Identities in Context: Emerging Prototypes among Non-religious Young Adults Janne Kontala (Abo Akademi University), Ariela Keysar and Sawsan Kheir (Abo Akademi University) 8. Multiple Identifications: Growing Diversity and Complexity in Religious and Secular Worldviews Ruth Illman, Peter Nynas and Nurit Novis-Deutsch 9. Towards a New Methodological Perspective: Concluding Reflections on Cross-cultural Research in the Study of Religions Peter Nynas, Ruth Illman and Rafael Fernandez-Hart

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Researching Global Religious Landscapes: A Methodology Between Universalism and Particularism by Peter Nynas
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Equinox Publishing Ltd
2024-04-01
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