Bibliography
Subject 1: The Axial Age and the Study
of Religion
Eisenstadt, S.N. (ed.) 1986. The Origins and Diversity
of Axial Age Civilizations. New York: State University of New York Press.
Subject 2: Secularization and the Study of Religion:
Stark R. 1999. “Secularization, R.I.P.” Sociology of Religion,
60 (3): 249-273.
Finke, R. 1992. “An Unsecular America”. In: Bruce, B.
(ed.). 1992. Religion and Modernization: Sociologists and Historians Debate the
Secularization Thesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 145-169.
Gorski, P. S. 2000. "Historicizing the Secularization Debate: Church,
State, and Society in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, CA. 1300 to 1700",
American Sociological Review, 65 (1): 138-167.
Hadaway, C. Kirk, Penny
Long Marler, and Mark Chaves. 1993. What the Polls Don't Show: A Closer Look at
U.S. Church Attendance. American Journal of Sociology, 58: 741-752.
Subject 3: Modernization and the Study of Religion:
Eisenstadt, S.N. 2000. Multiple modernities.
Daedalus 129(1): 1-30.
Stark, R. and Bainbridge, W. 1985.
"Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation". The Future of Religion:
Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press), pp. 429-456.
Stark, R. and Iannaccone, L. 1994. "A
Supply Side Reinterpretation of the Secularization of Europe", Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 33(3), pp. 230-252.
Subject 4:
Totemism and Modernity
Durkheim, E. 1915. The Elementary Forms of
the Religious Life. London: Allen and Unwin.
Subject 5:
Charisma, institutionalization and Religious
Transformation
Weber, M. 1958. The Protestant ethic
and the spirit of capitalism. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Weber, M. 1968. On charisma and institution building: Selected
papers. S. N. Eisenstadt (ed). Chicago : University of Chicago
Press.
Subject 6: Secularization and Religious
Revival
Asad, Talal, 2003. Formations of the Secular,
Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Princeton Princeton University Press.
Subject 7: The New Axial Age
Lambert, Y. 1999. "Religion in Modernity as a New
Axial Age: Secularization or New Religious Form?” Sociology of Religion.
60 (3): 303-333.
Dawson, L. L. 1998. “Anti-Modernism, Modernism,
and Postmodernism: Struggling with the Cultural Significance of New Religious
Movement”, Sociology of Religion. 59 (2): 131-156.
Subject 8:
Fundamentalism and Scripturalism
Ammerman, N. T.
(1987). Bible believers, fundamentalism in the modern world. New
Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press.
Saramago, Jose. 1994.
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. New York: Harvest Books.
Subject 9: Fundamentalism as an "Enclave
Culture"
Almond, G. A. Appleby S. A. and Sivan E. 2003.
Strong Religion, the Rise of Fundamentalism around the World. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press.
Ammerman, Nancy .T. 1994. "The Dynamics
of Christian Fundamentalism: An Introduction", Marty, E.M. & Appleby, R.S.
(Eds). Accounting for Fundamentalism: The Dynamic Character of Movements.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Heilman, S. & M. Friedman.
1991. Religious fundamentalism and religious Jews: the case of the Haredim. In
Fundamentalisms observed (eds) M. E. Marty S. R. Appleby, 197-264.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Subject 10: The
Scriptures and the Politics of Piety
Aran,
G., 1991. Jewish Zionist fundamentalism: The Bloc of the Faithful in Israel
(Gush Emunim). In Marty., E.M. and Appleby., R.S (Eds), Fundamentalisms
Observed. Chicago University Press, Chicago, pp. 265-344.
Aran, G.
1993. ‘Return to the Scriptures in Modern Israel’. Bibliotheque De l’ecole des
Hautes Etudes Sciences Religieuses , XCIX, 101-131.
Harding, Susan.
2000. The Book of Jerry Falwell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, p. 1-29.
Subject 11: Fundamentalism and Gender
Azar
Nafisi. 2003. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. New York:
Random House.
Griffith, R. M.. 1997. God’s daughters:
Evangelical women and the power of submission. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Bartkowski, John P. 2004. The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers,
and Godly Men. NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Mahmood, Saba, 2005.
Politics of Piety, the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton:
Princeton University Press.
Subject 12: Charismatic Movements and
Religious Revival
Coleman, S. 2000. “A ‘Wired
Babel of tongues’: Charisma in the Modern World”. In: The Globalisation of
Charismatic Christianity, Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 17-48.
Davidman. Lynn. 1991. Tradition
in a rootless world, Women turn to Orthodox Judaism. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Neitz, Mary Joe. 1987. Charisma and
Community. New Brunswick and Oxford: Transaction Books. Pp. 3-22 (Studying the
Charismatic Movement); 123-152 (Family).
Subject 13:
Pentecostalism and Speaking in Tongues
Wacker,
Grant. 2001. Heaven Below, Early Pentecostals and American Culture, Harvard
University Press, pp. 35-57 (Tongues). BR
Who are the Pentecostals:
http://www.pentecostalseurope.bigstep.com
Subject 14:
Pentecostalism and Poverty
Freston, P. 1995. "Pentecostalism
in Brazil: A Brief History", Religion 25(2),119-133.
Lehmann, D.
1996. Struggle for the Spirit: Religious, Transformation and Popular Culture in
Brazil and Latin America, Oxford, Polity Press.
Corten, Andre. 1999
(1995). Pentecostalism in Brazil, Emotion of the Poor and Theological
Romanticism. Translated by Arianne Dorval. London: Macmillan Press.
Cox,
H. 1996. Fire from Heaven: the rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the
Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century. London,
Cassell.
Burdick, J. 1999. "What is the Color of the Holy Spirit?
Pentecostalism and Black Identity in Brazil, Latin American Research Review, 34:
109-131.
Subject 15: Women in Charismatic
Movements
Eiesland, Nancy. L. 1996. A Strange Road Home,
Adult Female Converts to Classical Pentacostalism. In: Mixed Blessings, Gender
and Religious Fundamentalism Cross Culturally, Judy Brink and Joan Mencher
(eds.), New York and London: Routledge. .
Griffith, R. Marie.
God’s Daughters. Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission. 1997. Berkeley:
University of California
Press.
Subject 16:
Pilgrimage and Globalization
John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow 1991.
(Eds.). Contesting the Sacred, the Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage.
Rutledge: London and New York, pp.77-97
Subject 17:
Stigmata
McKevitt, Christopher. 1991. "San Giovanni
Rotondo and the Shrine of Padre Pio". In: Contesting the Sacred, the
Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage. John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow (Eds.).
Routledge: London and New York, pp.77-97.
Subject 18:
Women's Worship and The Virgin Mary
Sered, Susan, 1989. "Rachel's
Tomb: Societal Liminality and the Revitalization of a Shrine", Religion, (19):
27-40.
Eade, John. 1991. "Order and Power at Lourdes: Lay Helpers
and the Organization of a Pilgrimage Shrine". In: Contesting the Sacred, the
Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage. John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow (Eds.).
Routledge: London and New York, pp.50-76.
Zimdars-Shwartz, Sandra,
L. 1991. “Modern Marian Apparitions, Their Background, and Their Religious
Milieu”, In: Encountering Mary. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Dubisch, Jill. 1995. In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender, and
Politics at a Greek Island Shrine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
chapter 11.
Matter, Ann. E. 2001. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Late
Twentieth Century: Apocalyptic, Representation, politics, Religion.
Religion. 31: 125-153.
Apparitions of Jesus and Mary, www.Apparitions.org
Guadalupe, Mexico, http://ng.netgate.net/~norberto/eyes.html
Subject 19:
Modern Saints and Holly Tombs
Bilu, Yoram., and Ben Ari,
Eyal. 1992. "The Making of Modern Saints: Manufactured Charisma and the
Abu-Hatseiras of Israel", American Ethnologist 19(4):29-44.
Subject 20: Rituals and Politics
Bowman,
Glen, 1993. "Nationalizing the Sacred: Shrines and Shifting Identities in the
Israeli-Occupied Territories", Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological
Institute, 28(3), 431-460.
Subject 21: New age, Spirituality and
Capitalism
Urban, B,U. 2000. "The cult of Ecstasy: Tantarism,
The New Age, and the Logic of Late Capitalism". History of Religions, 39 (3):
268-304.
Lewis, J. R. 1992. "Approaches to the Study of the New Age
Movements", Perspectives on the New Age, Lewis, J. R. and Melton, J.G. (eds).
New York: State University of New York Press, pp. 1-12.
Hanegraaff, Wouter, J. 1996. New Age Religion and Western Culture,
Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thoughts, New York: Brill.
Temple
of Tantra: <http://www.tantraWorks.com/Shakti.html>
Temple of
Jvalamunki: <http://www.dakinitantra.com/jvalamunki>
Subject 22: Shamanism and
Neo-shamanism
Jakobsen, M. D. 1999. “Neo-Shamanism and the New
Age”, in: Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of
Spirits and Healing. New York and Oxford: Bergahn Books, pp. 147-197.
Subject 23: Paganism and Neo-paganism
Hanegraaff, Wouter, J. 1996. "Neopaganism", New Age
Religion and Western Culture, Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thoughts, New
York: Brill, 77-93.
Bednarowski, M. F. 1992. The New Age Movement and
Feminist Spirituality: Overlapping Conversations at the end of the Century",
Perspectives on the New Age, Lewis, J. R. and Melton, J.G. (eds). New York:
State University of New Nork Press, pp. 167-178.
The Hebrew University
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Course Objectives:
The course examines questions of religious
resurgence and revival in modern
societies.
In the course's
introduction I present the
relations between religion and modernity
in western societies since the
18th and 19th
centuries. We examine the theory of
modernization and secularization and
how they have influenced sociological
understanding
of religion. Following that,
we analyze new religious movements
exploring the relations of each one to
modern
features, the nation state,
economics, politics, science, consumption
and technology. The third part of the
course examines
case studies, particularly
from the Christian and Jewish world in Europe, the US and Latin
America. We analyze fundamentalist movements, charismatic movements (especial
Pentecostalism), global modern pilgrimage movements, and variety of new age
groups such as Neo-Shamanistic trends, Neo-Paganism and Tantra. Other case
studies from other parts of the world (such as: Islam, Buddhism, Protestants in
South America) will be compared in order to illuminate unique and common
expressions of these phenomenon.
New Religious Movements
