Religious Regimes and State Formation: Perspectives from European Ethnology (Suny Series in Contemporary)

This book intends to systematically overcome the received practice of treating religion and politics as wholly separate and independent domains. It studies power and meaning in their "antagonistic interdependencies" rather than approaching religion purely as a realm of meaning without reference to issues of power, or dealing with politics as the province of power without raising questions of meaning. Religion and politics are thus seen in relation to one another, and attention is focused on the disputes about how political and religious regimes should be formed. Religious Regimes and State Formation will convince the reader that god and politics have much in common and offers surprising new perspectives on old problems. Religious Regimes And State-formation : Toward A Research Perspective / Mart Bax -- Marian Apparitions In Medjugorje ; Rivalling Religious Regimes And State-formation In Yugoslavia / Mart Bax -- The Struggle For Control Of The Irish Body : State, Church, And Society In Nineteenth Century Ireland / Tom Inglis -- Saints, Shrines, And Politics In Contemporary Israel / Alex Weingrod -- The Role Of Ritual In State-formation / David I. Kertzer -- Clericals Versus Socialists : Toward The 1984 Malta School War / Adrianus Koster -- The Sociogenesis Of The Hasidic Movement : An Orthodox-jewish Regime And State-formation In Eighteenth-century Poland / Daniel Meijers -- Cultural Change And Religious Belief : The Armenians Of Cyprus / Susan P. Pattie -- Secular And Religious Responses To A Child's Potentially Fatal Illness / William A. Christian -- Spirits And The Spirit Of Capitalism / Jane Schneider. The Virgin Mary And Marina Warner's Feminism / Peter Loizos -- The Politics Of Religion On Hispano-african Frontier : An Historical-anthropological View / Henk Driessen -- License, Death, And Power : The Making Of An Anti-tradition / Marktate. Edited By Eric R. Wolf ; Adrianus Koster And Daniel Meijers, General Editors. Based On A Conference Held June 22-26, 1987. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Religious regimes and state-formation : toward a research perspective / Mart Bax Marian apparitions in Medjugorje ; rivalling religious regimes and state-formation in Yugoslavia / Mart Bax The struggle for control of the Irish body : state, church, and society in nineteenth century Ireland / Tom Inglis Saints, shrines, and politics in contemporary Israel / Alex Weingrod The role of ritual in state-formation / David I. Kertzer Clericals versus socialists : toward the 1984 Malta School War / Adrianus Koster The sociogenesis of the Hasidic movement : an orthodox-Jewish regime and state-formation in eighteenth-century Poland / Daniel Meijers Cultural change and religious belief : the Armenians of Cyprus / Susan P. Pattie Secular and religious responses to a child's potentially fatal illness / William A. Christian Spirits and the spirit of capitalism / Jane Schneider The Virgin Mary and Marina Warner's feminism / Peter Loizos The politics of religion on the Hispano-African frontier : an historical-anthropological view / Henk Driessen License, death, and power : the making of an anti-tradition / Mark Tate.