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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ftubheidelbheiup:oai:ojs.heiup.uni-heidelberg.de:article/23603 2023-09-05T13:21:32+02:00 Religious Studies and Transcultural Studies: Revealing a Cosmos Not Known Before? Berg, Esther Rakow, Katja 2017-04-07 text/html application/pdf application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/23603 eng eng Heidelberg University Publishing https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/23603/17365 https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/23603/17372 https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/23603/17580 urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heiup-ts-236038 https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/23603 Copyright (c) 2017 Katja Rakow, Esther Berg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 The Journal of Transcultural Studies; Bd. 7 Nr. 2 (2016); 180-203 The Journal of Transcultural Studies; Vol. 7 No. 2 (2016); 180-203 2191-6411 Christianity Singapore Religious studies Pentecostal Movement info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftubheidelbheiup 2023-08-21T08:48:54Z 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 Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP) (E-Journal) |
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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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The Journal of Transcultural Studies; Bd. 7 Nr. 2 (2016); 180-203 The Journal of Transcultural Studies; Vol. 7 No. 2 (2016); 180-203 2191-6411 |
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