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- Cavallin, Clemens, 1969
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Applied Religious Studies
- 2016
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Ingår i: Religionens varp och trasor: En festskrift till Åke Sander / Daniel Enstedt, Göran Larsson & Ferdinando Sardella (red.). - Göteborg : Institutionen för Literatur, Idéhistoria och Religion, Göteborgs universitet. - 9789188348791
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The self-understanding of religious studies has since its inception in the late 19th century been marked by a demarcation in relation to Christian theology, which constitutes its significant Other. The ‘scientific’ study of religion according to this view seeks knowledge about religion based upon empirical facts and abstains from value judgements and metaphysical discussions regarding religious beliefs and practices. The study of religion is, then, foremost an activity of the theoretical reason, leaving to extra-academic contexts, such as politics, the application of scholarly knowledge. However, this self-understanding of the discipline has been undermined by postmodern criticism, emancipatory agendas, the increased public visibility of religion and the pressure of usefulness exerted on academic disciplines. In the following, four versions of applied religious studies will be very shortly outlined in order to provide a starting point for a discussion of this development toward practical application; namely: the modernist position, the postmodern, the monetary utilitarian and that of human rights and natural law. These have been designed as Weberian ideal types and not as detailed representations of the actual positions of individual researchers. With this overview, I want to open the floor for a rethinking of religious studies that takes its practical application seriously.
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- Cavallin, Clemens, 1969
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Att studera religion i Indien
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Ingår i: Signum. - 0347-0423. ; :5, s. 37-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Cavallin, Clemens, 1969, et al.
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Changing views at Banaras Hindu University on the Academic Study of Religion: A first report from an on-going research project
- 2016
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Ingår i: Argument. - 2083-6635 .- 2084-1043. ; 6:1, s. 107-142
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Given India’s vibrant religious landscape, there is a somewhat surprising paucity of depart‐ ments, centres or even programs for the academic study of religion. This article discusses this issue based on the preliminary results of an interview study conducted at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India, in 2014 and 20 Its focus is on the views of university teachers and researchers concerning the place, role and function of religion and religious stud‐ ies at BHU. Twenty‐eight semi‐structured interviews were conducted. In the course of their analysis, six themes emerged: 1) the place and role of religion in society; 2) religion as ‘religi‐ osity/spirituality’ or sanatana dharma vs. political ideology/communitarianism; 3) religion vs. dharma; 4) secularization; 5) religion in education in general; and, 6) religion in the education at BHU. The informants agreed on the increasing importance of religion in India, and most of them viewed the meaning of secularization as being ‘equal respect for all religions’. Moreover, a majority distinguished between ‘religion’, in the Western sense, and the Indian conception of dharma, considering it regrettable that the latter, described as the common ground of all reli‐ gions, is not taught more extensively at BHU. They also considered the original ideal of BHU’s founder, Madan Mohan Malaviya, to be of signi cant importance. That ideal involved not only teaching students the knowledge and skill sets found in a standard modern university, but also equipping them with a value‐based education, grounded upon sanatana‐dharma. As our project progresses, further understanding of this turn toward dharma education is something we intend to pursue through the lens of multiple modernities, developed by Marian Burchardt et al. as multiple secularities.
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- Cavallin, Clemens, 1969
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Consolations of a New Earth
- 2015
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Ingår i: LIR.journal. - 1102-9773. ; :4, s. 37-48
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a marginalized group, personal suffering is inescapably united to excluding social and political structures and situations. To provide consolation to an individual then also involves showing a way of how the group can escape its painful predicament, which in early Christianity took the form of an end times confrontation between good and evil; and the emergence of new heavens and a new earth. In science fiction literature, a variant on this theme of cosmic regeneration is the escape to an earth-like planet with the help of an interstellar space ship. An interesting recent case of such an offer of conso- lation in outer space is the novel, Voyage to Alpha Centauri, by Michael O’Brien, a contemporary Canadian author. The story is a commentary on the marginalization of traditional, especially Catholic, Christianity, and the growing strength of a liberal secular order.
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- Cavallin, Clemens, 1969
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Det postkristna Sverige i siffror
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Ingår i: Signum. - 0347-0423. ; 2, s. 13-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Cavallin, Clemens, 1969
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Leaving Hinduism
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Ingår i: Leaving Religion / edited by Daniel Enstedt, Göran Larsson, Teemu T. Mantsinen. - Leiden : Brill. - 9789004330924 ; , s. 13-27
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To know whether you have left a country or not, it is essential to know where the border is. Such a demarcation of territory is contingent in the sense that the demarcation could have been drawn elsewhere—and probably has. Sometimes, the borders are first drawn on a map to create the country in question and then are implemented later. Sometimes, however, the boundaries grow organically through centuries of warfare and cultural negotiations and follow the natural terrain of rivers and mountains. The notion of Hinduism as a world religion has both this artificial, neat character and the fuzzy boundaries resulting from the accumulation of religious ideas, practices, and cultural traits over millennia. As Knut Jacobsen remarks in his introduction to Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Hinduism “does not refer to a homogeneous religious tradition but a conglomerate of rituals, religious narratives, art, music, institutions, traditions, theologies, artefacts, and activities” (Jacobsen 2013). Therefore, leaving “Hinduism” is both easy and exceedingly challenging.
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