Beliefs and practices consciously making reference to the s/Spirit as the common life force within and between all beings are largely marginalized from serious intellectual discourse as superstition, folk belief, or New Age delusion, when they are not relegated to the socially controlled spaces of the orientalist study of "primitive animism" or of "respectable" religion within dominant culture. Even in invoking the spiritual as a field articulated through cultural differences, and in so doing attempting to displace dominant Christian notions of the spiritual while addressing the fear of politically regressive essentialisms, to speak about the s/Spirit and the spiritual in U.S. culture is risky business that raises anxieties of different sorts.3 In short, references to spirit, souls, th...
From the days of religion's infancy when primitive shamans stepped forward to answer questions like "What is going on when we dream?" or "Why do bad things happen?" right up to the modern era of globalization and the waning idea of a personal savior, Robert Wright asserts in his new book, The Evolution of God, that religion acts as something of a mirror to social Darwinism, reflecting not only our personal bonds with the all-powerful, but also the relationships of our communities to one another through such mediums as trade and conquest. According to Wright, the progress of the world was poised to embrace a new social order and Christianity filled that role.
Coming on the heels of the elephant-dung Jesus that was 2005's Battle in Heaven, this austere, astonishingly beautiful drama of marital and spiritual crisis, set in a modern-day Mennonite community, seems more the work of a confident young master than that of an impish enfant terrible. [...] I think most Mexicans in that sense are in a primitive state of religion, where, basically, God is just a provider to whom you ask favors and grace and all that, but with whom you never feël a personal relationship.
If the Iraqis who seek relief from the misery imposed by poverty, oppression and a benighted version of a primitive religion wanted a little reassurance, George W. Bush offered it to them. If the Americans, who while not exactly gung-ho for a foreign war but are nevertheless wary of an irresolute government, yearned for reassurance that sacrifice has not been in vain, George W. Bush gave it to them, too.
NAUVOO, Ala. -- The road to Liberty Grove Primitive Baptist Church meanders through northern Alabama, a lazy, looping ribbon of smooth blacktop at times, a treacherous snake of faded, broken gray asphalt at others. It's a path not unlike that of faith. Not unlike that, at times, of life itself. Voices rise and fall in the breeze, audible long before you see the simple wooden church resting beneath a canopy of hundred-year- old oaks. The doors and windows are open, and music pours out across the desolate landscape, winding through the trees and lifting through billowing white clouds to a heaven of clear blue sky.
... are lessons for the followers, but religion is left on the doorstep, as are politics. The purp...
... investigator of the relationship between religion and culture; editor of the Dublin Review. In his d...The ultimate foundation of primitive religion was not belief in ghosts or mythical bein...
Rida accused secularists of immorality and treason;126 al-Qaradawi portrays them as an elite rejected by the people and wonders who is behind them.127 For Rida, Christian Ethiopia's independence proved that the western colonial powers targeted Muslim lands;128 for al-Qaradawi, western support for Ethiopia against Eritrea was one of the examples that proved the fallacy of claims that the west is interest-driven, not anti-Islam.129 Despite his criticisms of Mu'awiya, Rida idealized the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates;130 al-Qaradawi consecrated his book Our Calumniated History to defend them against their detractors.131 Both attributed the end of the caliphate to a Jewish conspiracy,132 and contrasted the tolerance of the Qur'an with the bloodthirstiness of the Torah,133 and so on. Ri...
... where the men gathered to talk about religion and organized lessons for the women at the family ...; thus, Islam needed to recover its primitive purity. That put him on a collision course with th...
According to her friend Henry James, Woolson was "interested in general in secret histories, in the 'inner life' of the weak, the superfluous, the disappointed, the bereaved, the unmarried" (272), sympathetically exploring identities that have been defined by their failure to conform successfully to con- ventional middle-class values. First published in 1876, "Felipa" is set in a remote fishing community in coastal Florida after the Civil War, the sort of underdeveloped cultural site characteristic of much local color fiction.
..., its invocation of an imagined primitive culture, has received relatively little critical s...Felipa practices a "pagan" religion of her own invention. In "her most secret lair," "...
Say "idol worship" and most of us are likely to picture people in strange garb, working themselves into a frenzy dancing around a statue made of wood, stone, or some precious metal. At best, we see their practice as antiquated and primitive. At worst, they are objects of derision as we scorn their inability to recognize a true deity. Since the very beginnings of Western religion, we have pitted our "truth" against idolatry. Watching the news over the past few weeks, I have grown even more convinced that despite the presence of many on the membership rolls of various places of worship, we are all too busy worshipping idols.
... of passage embedded within family and religion that symbolize the transition to adulthood within primitive cultures (Van Gennep, 1960), students have created...
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