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This book presents case studies of the SFB 1070 ResourceCultures, which use an extended resource definition. Resources are analysed as contingent means to construct, sustain and alter social relations, units and identities. Accordingly, resources are seen as means of social practices of actors that depend on cultural and social appropriation and valuation. They constitute ResourceCultures. The contributions cover the topics of cross-sectional working groups and conferences that shaped the interdisciplinary collaboration on cultural, spatial and temporal dimensions of resources and ResourceCultures.

Archaeology --- Valuations --- Sacralization --- Identities --- Knowledge --- Materiality

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disenchantment of the West --- the re-enchantment of the West --- new religions --- alternative spiritualities --- occulture --- wellbeing --- the Holistic milieu --- healthcare --- eco-enchantment --- the contemporaray sacralization of psychedelics --- cyberspirituality --- the sacralization of the extraterrestrial --- contemporary Western demonology --- eschatological re-enchantment

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Forschung auf dem Gebiet »Hip-Hop und Religion« hat sich bisher meist auf religiöse Lesarten von Raptexten konzentriert und zudem Musikvideos bei dieser Betrachtung weitestgehend außer Acht gelassen. Eileen Simonow geht der These nach, dass religiöses Material in den Clips sakral und damit entgrenzend, in Bedeutungen überschießend - und damit im eigentlichen Sinne anti-religiös inszeniert - ist. Dafür werden Musikvideos des US-amerikanischen Mainstreams in ihrer komplexen Verschränkung der auditiven und visuellen Ebenen mit der Sakraltheorie Georges Batailles gelesen. In vier Analysen von Musikvideos - u.a. von Kanye West - wird das Sakrale als aus dem Sozialen hervorgehende Kraft im Spannungsfeld von Macht, Ideologie und Widerstand diskutiert. »Simonow [schafft es] durch die ungewöhnliche, aber ertragreiche Wahl ihrer theoretischen Grundlage sowie ihrer mehrdimensionalen Betrachtungsweise einen spannenden Beitrag zu einem interdisziplinären Forschungsfeld aus Soziologie, Musik-, Religions- und Kulturwissenschaft zu leisten und regt damit hoffentlich auch andere Wissenschaftler/innen dazu an, über die üblichen fachlichen Grenzen hinwegzudenken und die auch in der Forschung häufig tradierten Leitdifferenzen aufzubrechen.« Viola Dombrowski, forum erwachsenenbildung, 2 (2018) Besprochen in: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft, 27/1 (2019), Assia Harwazinski

Hip-Hop; Musikvideo; Sakralisierung; Sakraltheorie; Religion; Georges Bataille; Anti-Religiosität; Kanye West; USA; Musik; Popkultur; Amerika; Popmusik; Video; Medienästhetik; Musikwissenschaft; Hip Hop; Music Video; Sacralization; Usa; Music; Popular Culture; America; Pop Music; Media Aesthetics; Musicology --- America. --- Georges Bataille. --- Kanye West. --- Media Aesthetics. --- Music Video. --- Music. --- Musicology. --- Pop Music. --- Popular Culture. --- Religion. --- Sacralization. --- Usa. --- Video.

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A radical new interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon episcopate, bringing to light previously unused evidence. This first full-length study of the Anglo-Saxon episcopate explores the activities of the bishops in a variety of arenas, from the pastoral and liturgical to the political, social, legal and economic, so tracing the development ofa particularly English episcopal identity over the course of the tenth and eleventh centuries. It makes detailed use of the contemporary evidence, previously unexploited as diffuse, difficult and largely non-narrative, rather than that from after the Norman Conquest; because this avoids the prevailing monastic bias, it shows instead that differences in order [between secular and monk-bishops] had almost no effect on their attitudes toward their episcopalroles. It therefore presents a much more nuanced portrait of the episcopal church on the eve of the Conquest, a church whose members constantly worked to create a well-ordered Christian polity through the stewardship of the English monarchy and the sacralization of political discourse: an episcopate deeply committed to pastoral care and in-step with current continental liturgical and theological developments, despite later ideologically-charged attempts tosuggest otherwise; and an institution intricately woven, because of its tremendous economic and political power, into the very fabric of English local and regional society. MARY FRANCIS GIANDREA teaches at George Mason University.

Church of England --- Bishops --- History --- England --- Church history --- Anglican Church --- Anglikanskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Ecclesia Anglicana --- Kirche von England --- United Church of England and Ireland --- RELIGION / History. --- Anglo-Saxon episcopate. --- Christian polity. --- English episcopal identity. --- English monarchy. --- George Mason University. --- MARY FRANCIS GIANDREA. --- bishops. --- economic. --- eleventh century. --- legal. --- liturgical. --- pastoral. --- political. --- sacralization. --- social. --- tenth century. --- theological developments.

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The focus of this Special Issue is the analysis of the role played by sacrifice in complex secular and modern societies, in which, the concept of ‘emotional self-restriction' (Freud, 201; Elias, 2009), as a keystone of civilization, has collapsed. Today, the old idea of sacrifice is superseded by the idea of ‘useless sacrifice’ (Duvignaud, 1997), not because the logic of excess carried by sacrifice is opposite to the capitalistic idea of efficacy, but mainly because the contemporary actor is far away from any ideas of containment, restraint, or control. At the base of current civilizations, ‘instinctive sacrifice’ is not yet the rule. We could be closer to a new version of the ‘intellectual sacrifice’ (Weber, 2004). The weakening of the forces of transcendence (Reckwitz, 2012) in the secular age sets up spaces of ‘symbolic exchange’ (Baudrillard, 1980), which play the articulator role in our hyperfragmented society. In this context, the idea of compensatory loss remains present in current wars and migratory conflicts, in the economic life of unregulated capitalism, in the new imperative of corporal beauty, in global sports competitions, and so on. All of these are contexts, current contexts, where sacrifice plays a substantive role for understanding our age. In Merlin Donald’s terms of “evolutive evolution” (1991) and with the force that drives the dynamics of change through all societies, we understand that sacrifice performs a role in current societies, but a role in which its meaning as well as its function have already changed. The aim of this Special Issue is to analyze and explain what this role is, studying some of the different social faces that it presents. Our hypothesis is radically sociological, because we understand that different dynamics of change have exerted a transformative influence over sacrifice.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- sacrifice --- gift --- victim --- post-heroic --- sacralization of the person --- pilgrimage --- sacred --- festivals --- Wagner --- Bayreuth --- Durkheim --- opera --- imaginary --- violence --- rituality --- collective communion --- late modernity --- martyrdom --- ETA --- Yoyes --- ethnography --- psychoanalysis --- cultural trauma --- victims of terrorism --- ritual --- performance --- expropriation --- crisis --- financialization --- capitalism --- sacredness of the person --- self-sacrifice --- exchange --- relinquishment --- secular religiosity --- n/a