Chryssides Minority Religions in Europe and the Middle East

Mapping and Monitoring
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-09567-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements

Minority religions, not only New Religious Movements, are explored in this innovative book including the predicament of ancient religions such as Zoroastrianism, ’old new’ religions such as Baha’i, and traditional religions that are minorities elsewhere. Exploring mapping and monitoring, international contributors examine which new religions exist in particular countries, what their uptake is, and how allegiance can be ascertained. Contributors examine a range of issues faced by minority religions, encompassing official state recognition and registration, unequal treatment in comparison with a dominant religion, how changes in government can affect how they fare, the extent to which members are free to practice their faith, how they sometimes seek to influence politics, and how they can be affected by harassment and persecution. Bringing together debates concerning the social and political issues facing new religions in Europe and the Middle East, this collection extends its focus to Middle Eastern minority faiths, enabling exposition of spiritual movements such as the Gülen Movement, Paganism in Israel, and the Zoroastrians in Tehran.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chryssides, George D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. George D. Chryssides

Introduction: Religious minorities in Europe and the Middle East

Part 1: Mapping the minority religions

2. Ringo Ringvee

What do the censuses tell about minority religions? Some reflections on Estonia

3. Brigitte Knobel and Camille Gonzales

Mapping of religious minorities in Geneva

4.András Máté-Tóth and Gábor Dániel Nagy

Empirical research among the membership of Scientology in Germany, Hungary and Switzerland

5. Milda Ališauskiene

Religious minorities in Contemporary Lithuania.

6. Paulina Niechcial

Sacred homeland, glorious ancestors and old-time language: Ethnic elements in the identity of the Zoroastrian religious minority in modern Tehran



Part 2: Belonging and monitoring

7. Norman Bonney

The attitude of the UK state towards minority religions

8. Christiane Königsted

Changes in the field of new religions in the mirror of secular law: the example of the French legal practices.

9. Claude Proeschel

Religious minorities in democratic Spain: Rekindling the past

10. Eugenia Roussou

Spiritual movements in times of crisis: an anthropological account of esotericism in Portugal and Greece

11. Titus Hjelm, Essi Mäkelä,and Jussi Sohlberg

Religion and law meet new religiosity: a comparison of two cases of minority religions (wicca/pagan) registering for an official status in Finland

12. J. Eugene Clay

Religious liberty in Russia after 1997

13. Inez Schippers

Turkey’s Gülen Movement

14. Shai Feraro

Is there a future for Neo-Paganism in the Holy Land?

15. Kishan Manocha and Saba Tahzib

Religion, social change and responding to persecution – the case of the Baha’i community in Iran

16. Stephen Suleyman Schwartz

The Bektashi-Alevi Continuum from the Balkans to Iran: Sufi Minorities and Politics

Über Autor(innen)

George D. Chryssides studied at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, and has taught at various British universities. He was Head of Religious Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, from 2001 to 2008, and is now Honorary Research Fellow in Contemporary Religion at the University of Birmingham. He has published extensively, principally on new religious movements, and is a Series Editor for the Ashgate New Religions series. His books include Historical Dictionary of Jehovah’s Witnesses (2008), Heaven’s Gate: Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group (2011) Christians in the Twenty-First Century (with Margaret Z. Wilkins 2011) and Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements (2012) The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements (co-edited with Benjamin E. Zeller,2014), and Jehovah’s Witnesses: Continuity and Change (2015). He was made an Honorary Member of the British Association for the Study of Religions in 2008, and appointed as a Governor of Inform in 2014.