2012
Western “Eastern wisdom” and the concept of new religions : remapping the field
FUJDA, MilanZákladní údaje
Originální název
Western “Eastern wisdom” and the concept of new religions : remapping the field
Autoři
FUJDA, Milan (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)
Vydání
Slovenský národopis, Bratislava, Slovak Academic Press, 2012, 1335-1303
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
50000 5. Social Sciences
Stát vydavatele
Slovensko
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14210/12:00062962
Organizační jednotka
Filozofická fakulta
Klíčová slova anglicky
new religious movements; Hinduism; occultism; communication; printed media; Czech
Štítky
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 13. 4. 2013 11:32, Mgr. Vendula Hromádková
Anotace
V originále
Terms "new religions" or "new religious movements" refer usually to 1950s or 1960s as the time of the origin of particular religious groups/movements. Yet to set up a date is something else then to clarify why the date is important. The debate concerning NRMs is, however, either surprisingly silent on this issue or inconsistent in subsuming particular cases under this heading. Sociologists and scholars of religion seem to do, in this field, little more than balancing the anticultist discourse with minor terminological differences creating an impression of value neutrality. In the following article I will examine the concept of "new religions" on the background of an introduction of communication through the printed media. Using data from my research on acculturation of Hinduism in Czech occultism during the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, I will point out that this factor played significant role in modernization of religions in general – "new" as well as "old" – and that after contrasting new religiosity with traditional one while dwelling on a more conservative understanding of the "traditional", difference between "new" and "old" religions will largely vanish while new possibilities of understanding more important distinctions in the field of religion in modern societies might emerge.