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Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction: Religion, Tradition and the Popular in Asia and Europe
PART I: HISTORIES AND CONCEPTS OF POPULAR(ISED) RELIGIONS
The Communicative Construction of Transcendence: a New Approach to Popular Religion
Religion in Early Modern Southeast Asia: Synthesising Global and Local
Who Defines “the Popular”? Post-colonial Discourses on National Identity and Popular Christianity in the Philippines
PART II: POPULAR(ISED) RELIGIONS IN ASIA
Concepts of (Protestant) Christian Identity in Chinese Microblogs
The Cinematic Contest of Popular Post-Islamism
Popularisation of Religious Traditions in Indonesia – Historical Communication of a Chinese Indonesian Place of Worship
Translating Traditions and Transcendence: Popularised Religiosity and the Paranormal Practitioners’ Position in Indonesia
PART III: POPULAR(ISED) RELIGIONS IN EUROPE
A Sprout of Doubt. The Debate on the Medium’s Agency in Mediumism, Media Studies, and Anthropology
“Tomorrow, Christ on the Cross Will be Selling Socks”. References to Christianity in Contemporary Advertising Campaigns
Germanic Neo-Paganism – A Nordic Art-Religion?
Neo-pagan Traditions in the 21st Century: Re-inventing Polytheism in a Polyvalent World-Culture
List of Contributors

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Judith Schlehe, Evamaria Sandkühler (eds.) Religion, Tradition and the Popular

Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen History in Popular Cultures | Volume 12

Editorial The series Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen | History in Popular Cultures provides analyses of popular representations of history from specific and interdisciplinary perspectives (history, literature and media studies, social anthropology, and sociology). The studies focus on the contents, media, genres, as well as functions of contemporary and past historical cultures. The series is edited by

I have never recommended or prescribed divorce. How could I as a minister of the Gospel? The Bible makes clear the way in which God views divorce. I have on more than one occasion counseled and aided women in leaving an abusive husband. -Paige Patterson

I, too, am a Southern Baptist, and although I respect Dr. Patterson's right to disagree, I doubt that this is the presiding opinion among all SBC pastors. Patterson's refusal to acknowledge abuse as a legitimate breach of the marriage covenant convinced a battered wife to stay in an abusive home. Domestic abuse is cyclical. Even when pastors, counselors, and victim’s advocates intentionally intervene, abused women often find the fear of isolation, financial struggle, single parenting, violent retribution, and a host of other factors to be a hill too steep to climb. So they return home.

Women and children are being oppressed by their husbands and fathers across our nation. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011 survey of more than 12,000 women, 22 percent of women in the US have experienced severe physical violence at the hands of an intimate partner. That's one in four women across our nation experiencing “severe” physical oppression. (Fourteen percent of men also experience abuse during their lifetimes.) Which is why pastors have to refuse the simple, proof-texted answer. Patterson insists, “The Bible makes clear the way in which God views divorce.” That is true.

Exhibit A: Malachi 2:16a—“‘For I hate divorce,’ says the Lord, the God of Israel …” (NASB)

However, the Bible also makes clear the way in which God views abuse and oppression.

Exhibit B: Malachi 2:16b—“…and [I hate] him who covers his garment with wrong,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.&rsq