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Control, Coercion, and Constraint : The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Dependency and Slavery Studies ; v.14Publisher: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024Copyright date: ©2025Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 Online-Ressource (342 pages)ISBN:- 9783111380575
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Summary: This volume is based on a lecture series that was held during the academic year 2021-2022 at the University of Bonn. Its contributors explore the role of religion in overcoming and creating structures of dependency from different disciplines and academic backgrounds. The question of the role of religion in justifying, perpetuating, modifying, and abolishing slavery and other forms of strong asymmetrical dependency is still a much-debated topic within historical and social sciences. The equality of all human beings before God, gods, or the divine is deeply rooted in religious thought. Conversion to one or another religion has, therefore, often led to critique, transformation, and even abolition of existing social structures, institutions, and their corresponding dependencies. Yet religious discourse has also been used to justify the subjection of individuals and whole peoples. In addition, throughout history, religious institutions themselves have often mirrored the social hierarchies and inequalities of the surrounding societies. Concomitantly, practitioners of these religious traditions have created systems of dependency within their own institutional, social, legal, and spiritual structures. This volume makes clear that not even the metaphysical world is free of dependencies: influential strands of almost all major religious traditions envisage hierarchies of gods, angels, demons, and other metaphysical beingsPPN: PPN: 192266944XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- God, Satan, and Humankind: Liberation from and Dependency on Supernatural Forces -- Freedom and Dependency in Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East -- The Semantics of Dependency in the Book of Isaiah and Beyond -- 'I Abjure Satan, his Pomp, and his Service': Exchanging Religious Dependencies in the Early Church -- Interactions between Religion and Politics -- Can the Subaltern . . . Write? Rediscovering the "He"-tribe from Serabit el Khadim and the Invention of Alphabetic Writing 4000 years ago -- Creating Dependency by Means of its Overcoming: A Case Study from the Rise of Tibetan Buddhism -- 'There is a Great Difference between Christianity and Religion at the South': References to Religion in Harriet Jacobs's Slave Narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) -- Relics as Resource: Dependency from Holy Remains -- Vīraśaiva and Jaina Rivalries in Medieval South India: Creating and Overcoming Structures of Dependency -- Religion and Gender Dependency -- Sisters and Equals? Slavery and Hierarchies in Early Monastic Communities for Women -- Beyond Subordination versus Emancipation: Caribbean Godna (Tattoos) as Means of Recreating Social Relations and Affective Bonds -- Religion and the Dialectic of Overcoming and Creating Dependency -- Serving God: Structures of Dependency in the Ecclesiastical Realm -- The Impact of Faith: Bartolomé de Las Casas' Cultural Turn in his Interpretation of Aristotle as a Resource for Overcoming Slavery in the West Indies -- Dominium in se ipsum in Antique and Medieval Discourses on Liberty -- William Wilberforce and the Ambiguities of Christian Antislavery -- Index of Names
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