Religious Studies and Transcultural Studies: Revealing a Cosmos Not Known Before?
Drawing on our research on Pentecostal Christianity in Singapore, the article introduces the transcultural approach and discusses its possible contributions to the academic study of religions. After a short overview of the history of the discipline, the article introduces our understanding of the tr...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:74f8e78f5f4b454a850e02edf8eeb541 2023-05-15T17:32:41+02:00 Religious Studies and Transcultural Studies: Revealing a Cosmos Not Known Before? Esther Berg Katja Rakow 2017-04-01 https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ts.2016.2.23603 https://doaj.org/article/74f8e78f5f4b454a850e02edf8eeb541 en eng Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2191-6411 doi:10.17885/heiup.ts.2016.2.23603 https://doaj.org/article/74f8e78f5f4b454a850e02edf8eeb541 undefined Transcultural Studies, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 180-203 (2017) christianity singapore religious studies pentecostal movement relig lang Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2017 fttriple https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ts.2016.2.23603 2023-01-22T19:30:33Z Drawing on our research on Pentecostal Christianity in Singapore, the article introduces the transcultural approach and discusses its possible contributions to the academic study of religions. After a short overview of the history of the discipline, the article introduces our understanding of the transcultural approach and a discussion of similar or related approaches in Religious Studies, which emphasize relationality and polyvocality in the study of religious practices and discourses. The final section of the article is devoted to two case studies that demonstrate the fruitfulness of adopting a transcultural approach to our research material. The first example contests the prevalent narrative of the Azusa Street Revival (1906–1909) as the birth of Pentecostalism and an inherently American religious phenomenon, which was subsequently exported from the US to the rest of the world. The second example discusses Singaporean Pentecostal missionary narratives and genealogies of small group practice, which decentre North America, Europe, and the North Atlantic as focal points of the religious world map. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Unknown |
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Drawing on our research on Pentecostal Christianity in Singapore, the article introduces the transcultural approach and discusses its possible contributions to the academic study of religions. After a short overview of the history of the discipline, the article introduces our understanding of the transcultural approach and a discussion of similar or related approaches in Religious Studies, which emphasize relationality and polyvocality in the study of religious practices and discourses. The final section of the article is devoted to two case studies that demonstrate the fruitfulness of adopting a transcultural approach to our research material. The first example contests the prevalent narrative of the Azusa Street Revival (1906–1909) as the birth of Pentecostalism and an inherently American religious phenomenon, which was subsequently exported from the US to the rest of the world. The second example discusses Singaporean Pentecostal missionary narratives and genealogies of small group practice, which decentre North America, Europe, and the North Atlantic as focal points of the religious world map. |
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Religious Studies and Transcultural Studies: Revealing a Cosmos Not Known Before? |
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Religious Studies and Transcultural Studies: Revealing a Cosmos Not Known Before? |
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