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Subject(s)

• Secrecy—Religious aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Urban, Hugh B. [Browse]
• Johnson, Paul C. (Paul Christopher), 1964- [Browse]

Series

Routledge Handbooks in Religion [More in this series]

Summary note

Secrecy is a central and integral component of all religious traditions. Not limited simply to religious groups that engage in clandestine activities such as hidden rites of initiation or terrorism, secrecy is inherent in the very fabric of religion itself. Its importance has perhaps never been more acutely relevant than in our own historical moment. In the wake of 9/11 and other acts of religious violence, we see the rise of invasive national security states that target religious minorities and pose profound challenges to the ideals of privacy and religious freedom, accompanied by the resistance by many communities to such efforts. As such, questions of secrecy, privacy, surveillance, and security are among the most central and contested issues of twenty-first century religious life. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy is the definitive reference source for the key topics, problems and debates in this crucial field and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising twenty-nine chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into five parts: Configurations of Religious Secrecy: Conceptual and Comparative Frameworks Secrecy as Religious Practice Secrecy and the Politics of the Present Secrecy and Social Resistance Secrecy, Terrorism, and Surveillance. This cutting-edge volume discusses secrecy in relation to major categories of religious experience and individual religious practices while also examining the transformations of secrecy in the modern period, including the rise of fraternal orders, the ongoing wars on terror, the rise of far-right white supremacist groups, increasing concerns over religious freedom and privacy, the role of the internet in the spread and surveillance of such groups, and the resistance to surveillance by many indigenous and diasporic communities. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, comparative religion, new religious movements, and religion and politics. It will be equally central to debates in the related disciplines of sociology, anthropology, political science, security studies and cultural studies.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

Introduction: From the Social Lives of Secrecy to the Secret lives of the Social: Notes on Religion, Power, and the Public Paul Christopher Johnson and Hugh B. UrbanPart 1: Configurations of Religious Secrecy: Conceptual and Comparative Frameworks1. Mysticism and Secrecy Arthur Versluis2. Esotericism and Secrecy Kennet Granholm3. Gender, Sexuality, and Secrecy Hugh B. Urban4. Psychedelics and Secrecy Christopher Partridge5. Architectures of Secrecy Paul Christopher Johnson6. Secrecy, the Paranormal, and the Imaginal: The Remote Viewing Literature Jeffrey J. Kripal and Christopher SennPart 2: Secrecy as Religious Practice 7. Secrecy in Islam, Sufism, and Shi'ism Mark Sedgwick8. Concealing the Concealment: Towards a Theopolitics of Kabbalistic Esotericism Elliot R. Wolfson9. Keeping Secrets: The Social Practice of Gnostic Secrecy April D. DeConick10. Secrecy's Situational Ironies: Hiding and Its Consequences for Covert Buddhists in Japan Clark Chilson11. Notions of Secrecy and the Unknown/ Hidden in Chinese Religions Barend ter Haar12. Secrecy in South Asian Hindu Traditions: "The Gods Love What is Occult" Gordan Djurdjevic13. Reflections on Secrecy in Yolngu Religion Ian Keen14. AWO: The Nature of Secrecy in YoruÌbaì Religious Traditions: Conversations with Ifa Diviners Jacob K. OluponaPart 3: Secrecy and the Politics of the Present 15. Secrecy and Freemasonry Henrik Bogdan16. The Sacred, the "Secret," and the Sinister in the Latter-day Saint Tradition Christopher James Blythe17. The High Magic of Jesus Christ: Materializing Secrets in Brazil's Valley of the Dawn Kelly E. Hayes18. Secrecy, Sex Abuse, and The Practice of Priesthood John C. Seitz19. From Resistance to Terror: The Open Secret of Jonestown Rebecca MoorePart 4: Secrecy and Social Resistance20. "Crypto-Paganism" in the Late Antique World: Models of Concealment in a Christian Empire, Fourth to Sixth Century CE David Frankfurter21. Hopi Knowledge and the Ethnographic Allure of Secrets Adam Fulton Johnson22. Secrecy, Spirit Work, and Women's Fugitive Speech in the Creolophone Caribbean Elizabeth McAlister23. Lifting the EucharisticVeil: Allan Rohan Crite as Afro-Anglican Mystagogue Hugh R. Page, Jr. and Stephen C. FinleyPart 5: Secrecy, Terrorism, and Surveillance24. Weaponizing Secrecy: The FBI's War on Black Radical Religion Sylvester Johnson25. Varieties of Secrecy and Symbolism in American White Power Movements Damon Berry26. The Islamic State and the Management of Secrecy Haroro J. Ingram and Craig Whiteside27. Conspiracy Theories about Secret Religions: Imagining the Other David G. Robertson28. Xenophobia and Conspiracism after 9/11 Michael Barkun29. Imagining Secret Wars Mark Juergensmeyer.Index

ISBN

• 1-00-301475-5
• 1-000-55615-8
• 1-000-55618-2
• 1-003-01475-5

OCLC

1273727793

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