Schism

Abstract: Preface Introduction 1. An 'ethnic revival'? 2. Uneven development 3. Language and community 4. Ethnic consciousness in pre-modern eras 5. Historicism 6. Bureaucracy and the intelligentsia 7. State integration and ethnic schism 8. Accommodation and neo-ethnicity 9. 'Neo-nationalism' 10. Towards the scientific state Notes Bibliography Index.

Abstract: Any academic discussion of religion in the present moment must countenance the shrill polemics that have followed from the events of the past decade—including 9/11, the subsequent war on terror, and the rise of religious politics globally. What was once a latent schism between religious and secular worldviews has now become an incommensurable divide, and protagonists from both sides posit an ominous standoff between strong religious beliefs and secular values. Indeed, a series of international events, particularly around Islam, are often seen as further evidence of this incommensurability. Despite this polarization, more reflective voices in the current debate have tried to show how the religious and the secular are not so much immutable essences or opposed ideologies as they are concepts that gain a particular salience with the emergence of the modern state and attendant politics— concepts that are, furthermore, interdependent and necessarily linked in their mutual transformation and historical emergence. Viewed from this perspective, as a secular rationality has come to define law, statecraft, knowledge production, and economic relations in the modern world, it has also simultaneously transformed the conceptions, ideals, practices, and institutions of religious life. Secularism here is understood

Abstract: With a new foreword by Bruce Kapferer, Professor of Anthropology, James Cook University- A reprint of the seminal anthropological work of the 1960s Originally published by Manchester University PressVictor Turner will be remembered as the anthropologist who developed the concept of the ‘social drama', a method used extensively by anthropologists to describe and analyse the social life of a community In essence, this technique involves analysing social crises within a community over a period of time in order to gain a better understanding of the key principles that govern the social life of the communityThis book -- Turner's first ‘social drama' study -- focuses on the village life of the Ndembu of Zambia who were then under British rule The social constraints, such as the matrilineally-inherited headmanship system, and the various releases from these constraints, provoked periodic crises which caused great disruption and pain These crises made visible the contradictions between the principles governing social life and the conflicts experienced between individuals and groups when enforcing these principles Seven social dramas are discussed - all from one family over a period of twenty years -- each substantiated by sociological and demographic research

Abstract: Preface 1. Introduction: a contemplative in a troubled world 2. Integritas animi: ministry in the Church 3. Sapienter indoctus: scriptural understanding 4. Appropinquante mundi termino: the world in its old age 5. The Christian community and its neighbours 6. Christiana respublica: within the confines of the Empire 7. Terra mea: Italy between two worlds 8. Argus luminosissimus: the pope as landlord 9. Scissum corpus: the schism of the Three Chapters 10. Ravenna and Rome: and beyond 11. In cunctis mundi partibus the Far West 12. Inconcussam servare proviciam: dissent in Africa Epilogue Appendix: On the distribution of Gregory's correspondence Glossary of terms for offices Index to Gregory's works.