Religion, Models of, and Reality: Are We Through with Geertz?

Schilbrack, Kevin

doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfi042

Cited by 44 publications

(12 citation statements)

References 2 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Much depends also, of course, on how one defines and understands religion (Bellah 1970; Boyer 1996, 2001; Geertz 1966; Guthrie 1996; Segal 1985; Spiro 1966; Wax 1984). On the one hand are positions that claim that religious symbols do not and cannot refer to the world and that religion “refers to a distinctive, nonreducible aspect of human life” (Schilbrack 2005:437). This necessarily requires an ability to clearly bracket religious and nonreligious symbols, discourse, and practices.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Secularizing Religious Practices: A Study of Subjectivity and Existential Transformation in Naikan Therapy

Silva¹,

Silva²

2010

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Adapted from a Shin Buddhist style of meditation, Naikan ("inner-looking") is a week-long contemplative practice that involves reviewing one's life from the perspectives of others and has been called an indigenous Japanese psychotherapy due to its effectiveness in treating a variety of disorders. Data collected during an extended ethnographic study of Naikan in both Japan and Austria reveal that Naikan, a "secularized" practice that removes overtly Buddhist references and practices, effects changes in clients' subjectivity that are strikingly similar to those sought after in Buddhist traditions. This suggests that Naikan operates therapeutically on an existential level and employs cognitive techniques that, while originating in Buddhism, remain efficacious outside a Buddhist context. The potential for certain contemplative practices to effect transformations of subjectivity across religious and cultural contexts may be greater than commonly assumed.Correspondence should be addressed to Chikako Ozawa-

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Secularizing Religious Practices: A Study of Subjectivity and Existential Transformation in Naikan Therapy

Silva¹,

Silva²

2010

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Schilbrack 2005), and is particularly useful in the context of Roman religion. Geertz' basic assumption rests upon the notion that sociologists and anthropologists need to study and interpret meanings people express through culture and religion, rather than explaining the cause of cultural and religious expressions (Segal 2003).…”

Section: Roman Religion As a Cultural Communication Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Glocalization and Religious Communication in the Roman Empire: Two Case Studies to Reconsider the Local and the Global in Religious Material Culture

Alten

2017

Religions

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Over the period in which the ancient Roman empire grew to its greatest extent, religion in the provinces underwent change. In this article, the author argues that glocalization as an explicit modern conceptual framework has added value to the analysis of religious material culture. First, the glocalization model is discussed in the context of a wider debate on the biased concept of Romanization. Second, a rationale is presented for interpreting Roman religious change with a glocalization perspective. Third, two concrete bodies of archaeological source material are re-interpreted within the glocalization framework: first the little studied rural sanctuary of Dhronecken near ancient Trier and second a particular form of religious gifts that appeared on an empire-wide scale as a ritual with respect to the salus, the well-being of the emperor. Based on the application of the glocalization framework to these sources, the author concludes that religious material culture in these cases can be seen as a process in which new forms of religious communication were created out of an interrelated and ongoing process of local and global cultural expressions.

show abstract

“…Geertz does not commit this error, however. In a thorough response to Frankenberry and Penner's charge, Kevin Schilbrack demonstrates that while Geertz used the language of “framework” in theoretical writings, the examples that Geertz cites from field work do not use metaphysics as pre‐cognitive epistemic schemes, but rather, in Schilbrack's words, as “interpretive glosses.” These interpretive glosses “orient and tell their members what to think” (Schilbrack , 445). They do not pre‐cognitively determine the shape of the world.…”

Section: Clifford Geertz and Metaphysics As “Interpretive Gloss”mentioning

confidence: 99%

Metaphysics Matters: Metaphysics and Soteriology in Jerome Stone's and Donald Crosby's Varieties of Religious Naturalism

Ruper¹

2014

Zygon

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Religious naturalism is distinct from supernatural religion largely because of metaphysical minimalism. Certain varieties of religious naturalism are more minimalist than others, however, and some even eschew metaphysics altogether. But is anything lost in that process? To determine metaphysics’ degree of relevance to religious function, I compare the soteriology of the “ontologically reticent” Minimalist Vision of Jerome Stone to that of the ontologically rich Religion of Nature of Donald Crosby. I demonstrate that for these varieties of religious naturalism: (1) metaphysics influences soteriology; (2) metaphysical minimalism limits soteriological potential; and (3) metaphysics enhances soteriological potential. These conclusions lead me to assert the relevance of metaphysics to religious function, specifically for these varieties of religious naturalism, as well as to urge investigation into religious experience and quality as they may relate to metaphysics.

show abstract

Religion, Models of, and Reality: Are We Through with Geertz?

Cited by 44 publications

References 2 publications

Secularizing Religious Practices: A Study of Subjectivity and Existential Transformation in Naikan Therapy

Secularizing Religious Practices: A Study of Subjectivity and Existential Transformation in Naikan Therapy

Glocalization and Religious Communication in the Roman Empire: Two Case Studies to Reconsider the Local and the Global in Religious Material Culture

Metaphysics Matters: Metaphysics and Soteriology in Jerome Stone's and Donald Crosby's Varieties of Religious Naturalism

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About