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Entrevista sobre programa de sociología de religión

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:32:33 +0100

Heinrich (Enrique) Schäfer acaba de dar una entrevista sobre su programa de investigación sociológico en el marco de una serie de entrevistas con sociólogos latinoamericanos de la religión con el título de “Seminario Internacional ‘Sociología de las Religiones’”. La serie está organizada por el Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la Universidad Autónoma de México junto con el Boston College. Se puede ver aquí: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7RWMqn_qoc

Ringvorlesung: Contemporary Religion in Latin America

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Thu, 2 Nov 2023 12:01:01 +0100

CIRRuS-member Alvaro Espinoza is co-hosting a lecture series on Contemporary Religion in Latin America at CERES, University of Bochum. Online sessions run Fridays from 12.00PM via Zoom. For details and contact info, see [PDF].

Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer | Protestant ‘Sects’ and the Spirit of (Anti-)Imperialism

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 16:51:06 +0200

Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer

Protestant ‘Sects’ and the Spirit of (Anti-)Imperialism

Religious entanglements in the Americas

Latin America, United States, religion and politics – these are ingredients in a beverage of explosive power. The four terms also denote a close entanglement. Historically, this relationship has been shaped primarily by the Protestant mission in Latin America and its Pan-American objectives. But mission was yesterday. Today, under the conflictive conditions of life in Latin America, a new religious style has been molded and, with the Latin migration, the religious field in the United States is changing considerably. The present book, with reference to the Weberian distinction between “sects” and institutionalized religion, renders visible the logic of inter-American entanglements by tracing and interpreting exemplary developments and conflicts. The narrative is framed between two important religious events in 1916 and 2016.

Link: https://www.uno.edu/unopress/protestant-sects-and-the-spirit-of-anti-imperialism

Link: http://www.wvttrier.de/

El potencial de paz de las "iglesias libres" en los EE.UU. y América Latina

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Tue, 6 Apr 2021 12:12:32 +0200

El potencial de paz de las "iglesias libres" en los EE.UU. y América Latina

En la actualidad los protestantes estadounidenses y latinoamericanos aparecen en público sobre todo como actores de la derecha religiosa, mal vista por la cooperación cultural internacional, ya que, entre otras cosas, debido al aumento de la intolerancia en la política, no se pueden llevar a cabo proyectos culturales planificados, ya que los movimientos evangélicos se movilizan en su contra. Estos actores, sin embargo, constituyen sólo una parte del movimiento protestante. Otra parte del protestantismo en los EE.UU. y América Latina está muy abierta a la cooperación internacional en nombre de una paz justa. La cuestión clave del presente estudio es el potencial de paz de los actores protestantes. El concepto de paz se basa en la noción de “paz justa“, que incluye no sólo la ausencia de diversas formas de violencia, sino también la justicia social, las condiciones de vida ecológicamente sostenibles y el estado de derecho. La cuestión es si la práctica de los actores protestantes cumple estos criterios o si, por el contrario, es fundamentalista.

PUB | Link (PDF)

Religión, identidad y movilización en contexto de crisis. Herramientas para comprender la praxis religiosa

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Wed, 3 Mar 2021 15:07:27 +0100

Schäfer, H.W.; Seibert, L.H.; Tovar Simoncic, A.

Kipu/CIAS, 2021. PUB

La praxis religiosa es cada vez más relevante como respuesta a las múltiples crisis que azotan el continente. En ella encontramos tanto la complicidad con como la resistencia a los agentes de estas crisis, por lo que la complejidad del fenómeno pide herramientas adecuadas para su comprensión.

Este libro presenta un enfoque sociológico de la praxis religiosa basado en la praxeología del sociólogo francés Pierre Bourdieu. Fue desarrollado durante las tres décadas pasadas en contextos de crisis bélica y post-conflicto en sociedades latinoamericanas y del sur-este europeo.

H.W. Schäfer: Las ‘sectas’ protestantes y el espíritu del (anti-) imperialismo. Entrelazamientos religiosos en las Américas

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:44:43 +0200

Nuevo libro en español -- in a couple of weeks as well in English -- Ende August auch auf Deutsch

América Latina, los Estados Unidos, la religión y la política son ingredientes de un brebaje de cierto poder

explosivo. Los cuatro términos denotan un estrecho entrelazamiento. Históricamente, esta relación ha sido moldeada en primer lugar por la misión protestante en América Latina y sus objetivos panamericanos. Pero la misión fue ayer. Hoy, bajo las conflictivas condiciones de vida en América Latina se está moldeando un nuevo estilo religioso y con la migración latina se está cambiando el campo religioso en EE.UU.

El presente libro, retomando la diferencia Weberiana entre “sectas” y religión institucionalizada, visibiliza la lógica de los entrelazamientos interamericanos trazando e interpretando desarrollos y conflictos ejemplares. La trama narrativa esetá enmarcada entre dos importantes eventos religiosos en 1916 y 2016.

Latin America, the United States, religion and politics are ingredients in a beverage of explosive power. The four terms also denote a close entanglement. Historically, this relationship has been shaped primarily by the Protestant mission in Latin America and its Pan-American objectives. But mission was yesterday. Today, under the conflicting conditions of life in Latin America, a new religious style has been molded and, with the Latin migration, the religious field in the United States is changing considerably.

The present book, with reference to the Weberian distinction between "sects" and institutionalized religion, renders visible the logic of inter-American entanglements by tracing and interpreting exemplary developments and conflicts. The narrative is framed between two important religious events in 1916 and 2016.

Descarga gratuita aquí / Free download here
Descarga gratuita con más información / Free download with more information
à Una entrevista sobre el libro aquí

H.W. Schäfer: Meaningful strategies. Transcendence in conditions of conflict.

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:40:30 +0200

New article on theory of religion

Cultura & Religión (Chile), Vol. 14 (1) 2020

The article focuses on the concept of transcendence from a praxeological point of view. In order to shape the concept, the author refers not only to theoretical debates but also to tangible empirical conditions. In the first part, based on the observation that religious practice makes strange claims about reality, he elaborates on epistemological aspects of religious communication and religious action. In the second part, by analyzing religious practice in the context of the Guatemalan Counterinsurgency War, he then discuss the usefulness and ambivalence of the concept of transcendence. Finally, on this basis, he designs a praxeological concept of transcendence.

Free download here:

https://www.revistaculturayreligion.cl/index.php/culturayreligion/article/view/923

Cecilia Delgado: HabitusAnalysis for the analysis of religion and violence in Morelos, Mexico.

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:32:23 +0200

Framed by a cooperation between CIRRuS and the Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Cecilia Delgado realized a half-year internship in our team at Bielefeld in order to evaluate her research data from Mexico. She wrote an excellent dissertation which has been awarded with the book award of the Mexican society of religious studies (RIFREM).

You can download it here as pdf.

Or you might contact https://www.crim.unam.mx/web/node/3675 to download Kindle or pdf.

Review:

Cecilia Delgado Molina's book touches on two of the most sensitive issues in Mexico today: violence and religion. As a result of a doctoral investigation, the author immerses herself in the logics of action of different Catholic groups in Morelos between 2012 and 2017, who, faced with the chilling increase in violence, were questioned and left to march fighting for peace. The study explains in detail the tensions, differences and disputes of a group of believers with different religious traditions but who, within the framework of the same institutional umbrella, must seek a way out of the problem that afflicts everyone.

The author contributes from three different fronts: on the one hand, she makes a re-reading of the ecclesial history of Morelos to understand the complexity of the religious field in our days; on the other, it applies HabitusAnalysis, a methodological tool that allows decoding the logics of action, and finally, the theoretical apparatus of Pierre Bourdieu is used, particularly the notion of the field and the interaction between religion and politics. The book is an innovative and intelligent reflection that allows us to better understand one of the passions that accompany Mexico today and that it is up to sociologists to explain. Without doubt, an indispensable work.

Hugo José Suárez, Mexico, 2020

Conference Paper by Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Tue, 5 May 2020 11:30:26 +0200

From a conference on religion and politics in Guadalajara, November 2019, please see the conference paper by Heinrich Wilhelm S c h ä f e r on “Laicismo, ética y poder religioso-político: comparación de condiciones y estrategias“. Laicismo, ética y poder religioso-político: comparación de condiciones y estrategias

Keynote speech by Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Tue, 5 May 2020 11:30:17 +0200

From a conference on Pentecostal Strategies of Public Engagement in Basel, February 2020, please see the keynote speech by Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer on “‘Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain’ (Ex. 20:7). Conditions of Pentecostal political agendas in Latin America”. Conditions of Pentecostal political agendas in Latin America

HabitusAnalysis 2: Praxeology and meaning

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:50:12 +0100

Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer: HabitusAnalysis 2 – Praxeology and Meaning. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2020, 921 S.

With a preface by Franz Schultheis

After the publication of volume one, HabitusAnalysis 1 – Epistemology and Language, in 2015 in January 2020 the second volume of this approach to praxeological sociology has been published.

We are very pleased that Franz Schultheis, who belonged to the inner circle of Bourdieu’s cooperators, wrote a preface to the book.

Starting from the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, Schäfer composes a methodical approach to habitūs of social actors and the logic of their praxis: Building upon the generative terms of praxeology, he focuses on identity and strategy in processes of internalization, their transformation by means of dispositional schemes, and their externalization in action. The emphasis lies on a theory of dispositions that allows a flexible understanding of identity and strategy formation in the context of social experience and the interplay with social structures. This theory is developed over the course of a three-step analysis on habitus as a network of dispositions, on the dynamics that unfold between the logic of socio-structural processes and practical logic, and on the praxeological assessment of social structures via models of fields and the social space.

This book is the second of three volumes of HabitusAnalysis. While the first volume deals with the epistemological underpinnings of praxeology, this book advances Bourdieu's theory with a special focus on creativity of action in the context of social structures, thereby preparing the methodological design of empirical models in the third volume.

Contents

Generative Terms
Creativity in relations
Practical logic an logic of praxis
Specific struggles: fields and space

The entire book can be downloadad at Springer.

We also offer a direct link to contents, preface, and introduction as well as to the bibliography.

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Peace Potential of Free Churches in the USA and Latin America

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:56:10 +0100

In cooperation with the ifa - Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer has conducted a study on the peace potential of Protestant churches in the USA and Latin America as well as on the possibilities and limits of international cultural cooperation with these actors.

The most important results are condensed in a report, which was published by the ifa Institute in 2019.

The report is available here.

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Religiones y espacio público en América Latina / Religion and public space in Latin America Plataformas para el diálogo – CALAS

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:25:59 +0100

November 28 to 30, 2019

In cooperation between CALAS and the Mexican institute CIESAS Occidente Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer was invited to participate in an expert consultation in Guadalajara.

Participants and themes appear in the program.

The contributions will be published in a book by CIESAS. We will announce the publication on the CIRRuS News apage.

International Summer School “Research in Religious Development. Theory, Methodology and Praxis”

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:31:11 +0200

Bielefeld International Summer School

“Research in Religious Development.

Theory, Methodology and Praxis”

Date: May 25 – 29, 2020

Location: Internet

Speakers include: Ralph Hood, Barbara Keller, Job Chen, Heinz Streib, and others.

This summer school is a service for researchers from all over the world, regardless of the country, religion or culture in which they study religious change and development. Due to the Corona crisis, this summer school will be held as webinar.

The summer school has the threefold aim of …

(a) familiarizing with and discussing theory and methods (including hands-on learning) for studying religious change and development in the psychology of religion and related disciplines,

(b) assisting researchers, who are engaged in research with a developmental approach, or intend to include a developmental perspective in their study, in the elaboration and refinement of their research designs, and

Our expertise as organizers, presenters and advisors rests on twenty years of experience in cross-cultural, mixed-method research: Our Bielefeld-Chattanooga studies focus on biographical-reconstructive research, combined with psychometric approaches for investigating religious and spiritual experience, vertical and horizontal, religious styles, and the study of religious and biographical trajectories over time.

If you want to apply or if you want more information, please write email to: biographische-religionsforschung@uni-bielefeld.de

New Book: Xenosophia and Religion

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Sat, 4 Aug 2018 17:11:08 +0200

Our new book has appeared now and is available as e-book and printed book (in the first week of August 2018). https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319745633

This book presents results from a research project at Bielefeld University. See more on our website for this project.

Diversidad religiosa y HabitusAnalysis para hispanoparlantes (Religious Diversity and HabitusAnalysis for Spanish-speaking people)

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:35:19 +0100

Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer y Adrián Tovar Simoncic
Centro Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS Occidente)
Colegio de Jalisco
Guadalajara, Mexico, 15.2.2018

Religion and sustainablitiy

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Tue, 4 Apr 2017 17:10:16 +0200

A new CIRRuS Working Paper (No. 9 ) by Jens Köhrsen treats problems on the brink of religion and ecoloy.

A bourgeoning academic debate is tackling the role of religion in sustainability transitions (STs), namely, the ecology and religion debate (ERD). However, ERD lacks a social theory that conceptualizes potential roles of religion in STs in the context of non-religious social spheres. Based on social differentiation theory, this article develops such a theoretical approach. The approach orders existing insights on religion in STs and suggests potential avenues of research. Download (PDF)

Religious Identity Politics…

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:44:43 +0100

Now in English: Project report on “Religious Identity Politics of the Pentecostal Movement in Guatemala and Nicaragua” Download (PDF)

Säkularisierung als Kampf

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:11:17 +0100

In this book, the author sketches a multi-dimensional approach to phenomena of secularization that is based on Bourdieuian social theory. The main thesis is that secularization is closely connected to the societal struggle about the meaning of true religion. Instead of conceiving secularization merely in terms of a decrease of religion's importance in society, the author conceives secularization in the three dimensions differentiation, privatization and marginalization. The approach's operationalizability for empirical research is established by recourse to the method of HabitusAnalysis.

HabitusAnalysis para hispanoparlantes – 2

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:56:58 +0100

20.10.2016

En el Coloquio “Habitus y Campo en la Investigación Social”, 20 y 21 de octubre de 2016, del Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (IIS), UNAM, y del Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (CRIM), México, Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer di la conferencia magistral con el título de
Praxeología relacional desde América Latina.

Se puede ver en YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl2CVteZbjw

HabitusAnalysis para hispanoparlantes

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Mon, 4 Jul 2016 00:53:12 +0200

En el Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) Adrián Tovar dio un seminario sobre HabitusAnalysis. Este seminario se puede visitar en YouTube.

Clique sobre el cuadro.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_q1RjVIkfk&list=PL9jXZrFM-BffytWJjAaBFdzDJlY81MCRe&index=5

HabitusAnalysis

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:07:17 +0100

The program of HabitusAnalysis with regard to religious praxis is presented in a condensed version in the following two articles:

Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer, Leif Hagen Seibert, Adrián Tovar Simoncic, Jens Köhrsen: „Towards a Praxeology of Religious Life 1: modes of observation” and “Towards a Praxeology of Religious Life 2: tools of observation”. In: Frans Wijsen and Kocku von Stuckrad (ed.): Making Religion: Theory and Practice in the Discursive Study of Religion. Leiden: Brill, 2015: 147-171 and 175-202.

The Clash of Fundamentalisms.

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:44:53 +0100

The currentness of a book not always depends on its publication date. Sometimes the current social events turn it up-to-date again.

Contents (English)

Preface (German)

Neuerscheinung: Was bedeutet Spiritualität? Befunde, Analysen und Fallstudien aus Deutschland

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:30:44 +0200

Streib, H. & Keller, B. (2015). Was bedeutet Spiritualität? Befunde, Analysen und Fallstudien aus Deutschland. Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR) - Band 20, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

„Ich bin mehr spirituell als religiös" sagen immer mehr Menschen in den U.S.A., aber auch in Deutschland. Was heißt hier „Spiritualität"? Welche psychologischen und biographischen Veränderungen sind damit verbunden? Heinz Streib und Barbara Keller geben Antworten, gestützt auf die qualitativen und quantitativen Ergebnisse der an der Universität Bielefeld durchgeführten Studie zur Semantik und Psychologie von „Spiritualität". Eine lohnenswerte Lektüre über Veränderungen im religiösen Feld für alle, die sich an Universität und Schule, in Seelsorge und Beratung, in Kirchen und Medien mit dem Phänomen „Spiritualität" beschäftigen.

Another new publication: Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer: Identität als Netzwerk. Habitus, Sozialstruktur und religiöse Mobilisierung.

Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 16:31:08 +0200

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-658-10343-9

Schäfer presents an innovative concept of identity as a network of cognitive, emotional, and bodily dispositions. Based upon praxeological sociology Schäfer develops from an empirical study of religious movements a concept of identity that encompasses even the strategies of collective and individual actors as well as religious mobilization. The development of this theoretical approach from the ‘empirical scratch’ facilitates to operationalize it as a research method that provides a better understanding of religious and other kinds of collective or individual praxis. The theory of identity and strategy as a network of dispositions of perception, judgment, and action combines perfectly with the project of HabitusAnalysis the first volume of which also has been published recently.