Selfation » citaten http://religionresearch.org/johan A popular culture and religion weblog Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:51:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Schrijven is een martelgang http://religionresearch.org/johan/2007/01/27/schrijven-is-een-martelgang/ http://religionresearch.org/johan/2007/01/27/schrijven-is-een-martelgang/#comments Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:24:00 +0000 johan http://religionresearch.org/johan/2007/01/27/schrijven-is-een-martelgang/ Voor een ieder die, net als ik, ploetert op een dissertatie, een artikel of een ander talig gedrocht: troost je met de woorden van een groot schrijver, Gustave Flaubert, die aan zijn minnares schreef:

‘Voor schrijven heb je bovenmenselijke wilskracht nodig. En ik ben maar een mens.’

]]> http://religionresearch.org/johan/2007/01/27/schrijven-is-een-martelgang/feed/ Maerten Prins http://religionresearch.org/johan/2006/05/16/maerten-prins-2/ http://religionresearch.org/johan/2006/05/16/maerten-prins-2/#comments Tue, 16 May 2006 11:30:14 +0000 johan http://religionresearch.org/johan/2006/05/16/maerten-prins-2/ ‘… het is niet zo dat jongeren niets geloven, het is eerder zo dat ze álles geloven. Ze geloven in reïncarnatie en karma, in UFO’s en graancircels, in astrologie en horoscopen, in tarot en wicca. Ze gebruiken elementen hapsnap en construeren zo een persoonlijk raamwerk van zingeving. Jongeren kiezen niet voor een kant-en-klare religie, maar voor een doe-het-zelf religie.’

Maerten Prins - The Fragmentization of Youth (Nijmegen 2006), p. 107

]]> http://religionresearch.org/johan/2006/05/16/maerten-prins-2/feed/ Graham Ward http://religionresearch.org/johan/2006/04/26/graham-ward/ http://religionresearch.org/johan/2006/04/26/graham-ward/#comments Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:17:54 +0000 johan http://religionresearch.org/johan/2006/04/26/graham-ward/ ‘Religion has become a special effect, inseparably bound to an entertainment value. It plays two mutually implicated roles in contemporary Western culture. On the one hand, as symbolic capital with a certain charismatic past, it can give places, goods, even people, a mystic charge. Those allured by this charge are not buying religion, they are not consuming the religious or being consumed by it; they are consuming the illusions or simulations of religion. On the other hand, these simulations of religion, religion as symbolic capital, are used as an aesthetic diversion from the profound uncertainties, insecurities and indeterminacies of postmodern living. The religious is used rhetorically in the creation of the illusions of transcendence, to help simulate euphoria in transporting events. Both cultural roles are different aspects of religion as fetish - caught up in the complex economies of displaced desire (sexual and consumerist); desire without a proper object.’

Graham Ward, True Religion (Malden 2003), p. 133

(Met dank aan Peter, die dit schitterende citaat linkte met mijn artikel over de Matthäus Passion - New Generation Remix.)

]]> http://religionresearch.org/johan/2006/04/26/graham-ward/feed/ Evans-Pritchard http://religionresearch.org/johan/2006/04/25/6/ http://religionresearch.org/johan/2006/04/25/6/#comments Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:08:13 +0000 johan http://religionresearch.org/johan/2006/04/25/6/ ‘As far as a study of religion as a factor in social life is concerned, it may make little difference whether the anthropologist is a theist or an atheist, since in either case he can only take into account what he can observe. But if either attempts to go further than this, each must pursue a different path. The non-believer seeks for some theory - biological, psychological, or sociological - which will explain the illusion; the believer seeks rather to understand the manner in which a people conceives of a reality and their relations to it. For both, religion is part of social life, but for the believer it has also another dimension.’

E.E. Evans-Pritchard - Theories of Primitive Religion (Oxford 1965), p. 121

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