Karla Poewe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karla Poewe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karla |
| FAMILY NAME | Poewe |
| SIGNATURE | POEWE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Surprising Aryan Mediations between German Indology and Nazism: Research and the Adluri/Grünendahl Debate
The Völkisch Modernist Beginnings of National Socialism: Its Intrusion into the Church and Its Antisemitic Consequence
The main thesis of this paper is that Nazi religiosity has its origins in the pagan phenomenon called the völkisch movement. This movement consisted of uncountable religious-cum-political groups called Bünde whose leaders and followers were closely interconnected with one another and with the developing Nazi Party. From there völkisch thought penetrated the German Protestant Church and found followers among some Catholics. Given this development,…
Jakob Wilhelm Hauer's New Religion and National Socialism
Jakob Wilhelm Hauer (1881–1962) was a missionary to India and later both a professor of religious studies at Tübingen and a founder of a new religion, called the German Faith Movement (Deutsche Glaubensbewegung, DGB). According to Hauer, his movement was the essence of National Socialism. Because some contemporary scholars try to distance Hauer's scholarship and the DGB from National Socialism, this paper reviews existing literature about the Hau…
Source Criticism and the Reconstruction of Reality A Reply to Brigitte Schoen and Hubert Seiwert
This paper responds to criticism of our earlier work on the German anticult debate by Ms. Schoen and Prof. Dr. Seiwert. In it we argue that Schoen misunderstood and misread our article as a result of her obsession with published texts. Both Schoen and Seiwert underestimate the importance of history in creating the ethos that shapes the German debate about new religions
Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice
Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice. Mary Taylor Huber and Nancy C. Lutkehaus. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 252 pp
Politically Compromised Scholars, or What German Scholars Working under Missions, National Socialism, and the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic Can Teach Us
Mein Freund Maleboch. Christoph Sonntag. Ulrich van der Heyden. ed. Berlin: Edition Ost, 1999. 256 pp.Von der philologischen zur volkischen Religionswissenschaft. Horst Junginger. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. 399 pp.Die Afrikaw issenschaften in der DDR. Ulrich van der Heyden. Miinster. LIT Verlag, 1999. 640 pp
The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass
“ Verfassungsfeindlich “: Church, State, And New Religions In Germany
This paper examines the ideology of the German anti-cult movement. It also discusses the unique problems facing the German government resulting from right-wing extremism and the role of German cult experts in defining new religions as verfassungsfeindlich, hostile to the constitution
Scientific neo‐paganism and the extreme right then and today: From Ludendorff ‘s Gotterkenntnis to Sigrid Hunke's Europas Eigene religion
During the Weimar Republic, flourishing new religions were harnessed to usher in the cultural revolution from the right that was soon dominated by the Nazis. J. William Hauer's Deutsche Glaubensbewegung, an umbrella group for numerous new religions whose teachings ranged from versions of Hinduism to Nordic Neo‐Paganism, all collaborated, at some point, with Hitler and his party. This paper shows the continuity of core ideas from Mathilde Ludendor…
The Berlin Mission Society and its Theology: The Bapedi Mission Church and the Independent Bapedi Lutheran Church
The Berlin Mission's theology was a distinct world view that informed simultaneously the research, pedagogy, and behaviour of pupils, missionaries, and African converts, especially leaders known as ‘national helpers’. The theologically based methods of understanding, on the one hand, and the behavioural manifestations or attitudinal indices looked for in those who were becoming Christian, on the other, resulted in tensions and conflicts between m…
The World's Religions: Old Traditions and Modern Transformations
Preface Introduction Part I. 1. Earliest Religion 2. South Asia 3. China 4. Japan 5. Southeast Asia 6. The Pacific 7. The Americas 8. The Ancient Near East 9. Persia and Central Asia 10. The Greek and Roman World 11. Classical and Medieval Christianity and Judaism 12. Classical and Medieval Islam 13. Classical African Religions Part II. 14. The Explosion of Europe and the Re-Forming of Christianity 15. North America 16. South Asia and Reactions t…
New Religions as Global Cultures: Making the Human Sacred
Although the Great Anti-Cult Crusade links new religious movements to dangerous cults, brainwashing, and the need for deprogramming, Karla Poewe and Irving Hexham argue that many cults are the product of a dynamic interaction between folk religions and the teachings of traditional world religions. Drawing on examples from Africa, the United States, Asia, and Europe, they suggest that few new religions are really new. Most draw on rich, if localiz…
Missionary Encounters: Histories and Memoirs
Alexander Merensky: Erinnerungen aus dem Missionsleben in Transvaal (Südafrika) 1859 bis 1882. Ulrich van der Heyden. ed. Cognoscere, 5. Berlin: Edition Ost, 1996.560 pp. Hate the Old and Follow the New: Khoekhoe and Missionaries in Early Nineteenth‐Century Namibia. Tilman Dedering. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. 205 pp
Writing culture and writing fieldwork: The proliferation of experimental and experiential ethnographies
In this paper it is argued that the proliferation of ethnographic genres is the result of deliberate textual inventions by postmodernists, on the one hand, and a natural consequence of the method of participant-observation by experiential ethnographers, on the other. This implies that experimental and experiential ethnographies are distinct approaches to doing and writing fieldwork and culture. Consequently, experiential ethnographies have to be …
Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture
The Namibian Herero: A History of Their Psychological Disintegration and Survival
Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture
Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture Karla Poewe, ed. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. xiv + 300 pp. $34.95 (cloth) Reviewer: Joan B. Townsend University of ManitobaFocussing on charismatics, this excellent interdisciplinary collection addresses both Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity as global movements, and deals with the history, spread and characteristics of both. Several underlying themes run through t…
Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture
The movement that began in the first century currently spans the globe. The term charismatic refers to the gifts of the Holy Spirit - speaking in tongues, healing, prophecy, and discernment - said to be available to Christians who have surrendered their lives to Christ. This book takes readers on a journey to discover the history of the movement and the reasons why more and more Christians are finding the experience so meaningful. In this importa…
Theologies of Black South Africans and the Rhetoric of PeaceversusViolence
Grace à la théologie interculturelle de Hollenweger, cet article examine le paysage théologique complexe de l'Afrique du Sud. Les théologies de libération orales et écrites sont examinées à partir d'une perspective réfléchie pour permettre d'évaluer leur relation à la rhétorique de réconciliation et de violence. Sil'affirmation que les théologies délibération ont légitimé la violence attend d'être approfondie, il est clair que les grands orateurs…
Religion, Kinship and Economy in Luapula, Zambia
Ship without a Rudder
The Charismatic Movement and Augustine: The Challenge of Symbolic Thought in the Modern World
On the Metonymic Structure of Religious Experiences: The Example of Charismatic Christianity
Understanding Cults and New Religions
Journal Article Understanding Cults and New Religions, by Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1986, xi + 170 pp. $8.95 and The Lure of the Cults & New Religions, by Ronald Enroth. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1987, 137 pp. $6.95 Get access William H. Norman William H. Norman Graceland College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 4, Winter…
Links and Parallels between Black and White Charismatic Churches in South Africa and the States: Potential for Cultural Transformation
In the study of early and late twentieth century South African independent churches, a rigid differentiation is usually made between African and European charismatic movements and independent churches. This paper rejects such a simplistic view and argues, instead, that there are important historical links between recent White and older Black charismatic movements and independent churches. More importantly, the parallels between them have to do wi…
South Africa and the Anthropologist
Matriliny in the Throes of Change: Kinship, Descent and Marriage in Luapula, Zambia
Economic Activities and KinshipIn the past there was a tendency to seek economic cooperation among one's local matrilateral and bilateral kindred. Like the Lozi situation described by Gluckman (1941), the economic activities of Luapulans are so varied that a wide deployment of manpower is required. In any one situation there are always some local kinsmen from whom one may choose helpers, and widely dispersed clansmen amongst whom one can travel a…
Matriliny in the Throes of Change: Kinship, Descent and Marriage in Luapula, Zambia. Part One
IntroductionThe research upon which this paper is based was carried out over a period of about 18 months in the Luapula Province of Zambia. I first spent a month in Ntoto fishing camp, which is located about 15 km north of Kashikishi village on the slopes of Lake Mweru. For a year after that I conducted research in Kashikishi, a large village (about 1,500 population) adjacent to the southeastern shore of Lake Mweru. I then spentfour months in Luk…
Writing culture and writing fieldwork: The proliferation of experimental and experiential ethnographies
In this paper it is argued that the proliferation of ethnographic genres is the result of deliberate textual inventions by postmodernists, on the one hand, and a natural consequence of the method of participant-observation by experiential ethnographers, on the other. This implies that experimental and experiential ethnographies are distinct approaches to doing and writing fieldwork and culture. Consequently, experiential ethnographies have to be …
On the Metonymic Structure of Religious Experiences: The Example of Charismatic Christianity
Regional and Village Economic Activities: Prosperity and Stagnation in Luapula, Zambia
In this paper three interrelated topics are examined: First, the conflicts and strains prevalent in a matrilineal society are described. It is argued that these conflicts are the result of a central structural contradiction inherent in matriliny, namely, that between relations of production, which are individualistic in nature, and distribution processes, which involve social relationships that are communalistic in character. The contradiction re…
The Berlin Mission Society and its Theology: The Bapedi Mission Church and the Independent Bapedi Lutheran Church
The Berlin Mission's theology was a distinct world view that informed simultaneously the research, pedagogy, and behaviour of pupils, missionaries, and African converts, especially leaders known as ‘national helpers’. The theologically based methods of understanding, on the one hand, and the behavioural manifestations or attitudinal indices looked for in those who were becoming Christian, on the other, resulted in tensions and conflicts between m…
Religion, Matriliny, and Change: Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists in Luapula, Zambia
Christianity is as Luapulan as matriliny; both are involved in the ongoing process of change. Specific features of both organization and doctrines of salvation within different Protestant denominations constitute independent variables that differentially induce behavioral changes. In Luapula, two denominations, Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists, stand out from the rest because they adopt a critical attitude toward people's conduct an…
Scientific neo‐paganism and the extreme right then and today: From Ludendorff ‘s Gotterkenntnis to Sigrid Hunke's Europas Eigene religion
During the Weimar Republic, flourishing new religions were harnessed to usher in the cultural revolution from the right that was soon dominated by the Nazis. J. William Hauer's Deutsche Glaubensbewegung, an umbrella group for numerous new religions whose teachings ranged from versions of Hinduism to Nordic Neo‐Paganism, all collaborated, at some point, with Hitler and his party. This paper shows the continuity of core ideas from Mathilde Ludendor…
Marriage, descent and kinship: On the differential primacy of institutions in Luapula (Zambia) and Longana (New Hebrides)
IntroductionIn this paper we examine the differential implications of kinship practices and, specifically, Crow kinship terminology for two societies, one African, the other Oceanic. The comparison is undertaken for the following reason. Keesing (1970:765) suggested that the gulf between the way he conceptualized the Kwaio system and the way Fortes (1969) and Goody (1973) conceptualized the African systems may well be far wider 'than the gulf bet…
Women, Horticulture, and Society in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Some Comments
Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture
The Dangerous Journey: Symbolic Aspects of Boys' Initiation Among the Wagenia of Kisangani, Zaire
Surprising Aryan Mediations between German Indology and Nazism: Research and the Adluri/Grünendahl Debate
Jakob Wilhelm Hauer's New Religion and National Socialism
Jakob Wilhelm Hauer (1881–1962) was a missionary to India and later both a professor of religious studies at Tübingen and a founder of a new religion, called the German Faith Movement (Deutsche Glaubensbewegung, DGB). According to Hauer, his movement was the essence of National Socialism. Because some contemporary scholars try to distance Hauer's scholarship and the DGB from National Socialism, this paper reviews existing literature about the Hau…
Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice
Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice. Mary Taylor Huber and Nancy C. Lutkehaus. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 252 pp
Politically Compromised Scholars, or What German Scholars Working under Missions, National Socialism, and the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic Can Teach Us
Mein Freund Maleboch. Christoph Sonntag. Ulrich van der Heyden. ed. Berlin: Edition Ost, 1999. 256 pp.Von der philologischen zur volkischen Religionswissenschaft. Horst Junginger. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. 399 pp.Die Afrikaw issenschaften in der DDR. Ulrich van der Heyden. Miinster. LIT Verlag, 1999. 640 pp
Matriliny in the Throes of Change: Kinship, Descent and Marriage in Luapula, Zambia
Economic Activities and KinshipIn the past there was a tendency to seek economic cooperation among one's local matrilateral and bilateral kindred. Like the Lozi situation described by Gluckman (1941), the economic activities of Luapulans are so varied that a wide deployment of manpower is required. In any one situation there are always some local kinsmen from whom one may choose helpers, and widely dispersed clansmen amongst whom one can travel a…
Matriliny in the Throes of Change: Kinship, Descent and Marriage in Luapula, Zambia. Part One
IntroductionThe research upon which this paper is based was carried out over a period of about 18 months in the Luapula Province of Zambia. I first spent a month in Ntoto fishing camp, which is located about 15 km north of Kashikishi village on the slopes of Lake Mweru. For a year after that I conducted research in Kashikishi, a large village (about 1,500 population) adjacent to the southeastern shore of Lake Mweru. I then spentfour months in Luk…
Religion, Matriliny, and Change: Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists in Luapula, Zambia
Christianity is as Luapulan as matriliny; both are involved in the ongoing process of change. Specific features of both organization and doctrines of salvation within different Protestant denominations constitute independent variables that differentially induce behavioral changes. In Luapula, two denominations, Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists, stand out from the rest because they adopt a critical attitude toward people's conduct an…
Women, Horticulture, and Society in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Some Comments
Regional and Village Economic Activities: Prosperity and Stagnation in Luapula, Zambia
In this paper three interrelated topics are examined: First, the conflicts and strains prevalent in a matrilineal society are described. It is argued that these conflicts are the result of a central structural contradiction inherent in matriliny, namely, that between relations of production, which are individualistic in nature, and distribution processes, which involve social relationships that are communalistic in character. The contradiction re…
Matrilineal Ideology: The Economic Activities of Women in Luapula, Zambia11I thank the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, for financing my research in Luapula, Zambia, 1973–197…
Marriage, descent and kinship: On the differential primacy of institutions in Luapula (Zambia) and Longana (New Hebrides)
IntroductionIn this paper we examine the differential implications of kinship practices and, specifically, Crow kinship terminology for two societies, one African, the other Oceanic. The comparison is undertaken for the following reason. Keesing (1970:765) suggested that the gulf between the way he conceptualized the Kwaio system and the way Fortes (1969) and Goody (1973) conceptualized the African systems may well be far wider 'than the gulf bet…
Matrilineal Ideology: Male-Female Dynamics in Luapula, Zambia
The Dangerous Journey: Symbolic Aspects of Boys' Initiation Among the Wagenia of Kisangani, Zaire
Strange Pain: Textual Expressions From Africa and the Caribbean
The Namibian Herero: A History of Their Psychosocial Disintegration and Survival
This volume draws a disturbing picture of a Herero society that is radically unbalanced but driven by an indomitable will to survive
Links and Parallels between Black and White Charismatic Churches in South Africa and the States: Potential for Cultural Transformation
In the study of early and late twentieth century South African independent churches, a rigid differentiation is usually made between African and European charismatic movements and independent churches. This paper rejects such a simplistic view and argues, instead, that there are important historical links between recent White and older Black charismatic movements and independent churches. More importantly, the parallels between them have to do wi…
Understanding Cults and New Religions
South Africa and the Anthropologist
The Charismatic Movement and Augustine: The Challenge of Symbolic Thought in the Modern World
On the Metonymic Structure of Religious Experiences: The Example of Charismatic Christianity
Understanding Cults and New Religions
Journal Article Understanding Cults and New Religions, by Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1986, xi + 170 pp. $8.95 and The Lure of the Cults & New Religions, by Ronald Enroth. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1987, 137 pp. $6.95 Get access William H. Norman William H. Norman Graceland College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 4, Winter…
Ship without a Rudder
Religion, Kinship and Economy in Luapula, Zambia
Theologies of Black South Africans and the Rhetoric of PeaceversusViolence
Grace à la théologie interculturelle de Hollenweger, cet article examine le paysage théologique complexe de l'Afrique du Sud. Les théologies de libération orales et écrites sont examinées à partir d'une perspective réfléchie pour permettre d'évaluer leur relation à la rhétorique de réconciliation et de violence. Sil'affirmation que les théologies délibération ont légitimé la violence attend d'être approfondie, il est clair que les grands orateurs…
Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture
The Namibian Herero: A History of Their Psychological Disintegration and Survival
Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture
Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture Karla Poewe, ed. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. xiv + 300 pp. $34.95 (cloth) Reviewer: Joan B. Townsend University of ManitobaFocussing on charismatics, this excellent interdisciplinary collection addresses both Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity as global movements, and deals with the history, spread and characteristics of both. Several underlying themes run through t…
Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture
The movement that began in the first century currently spans the globe. The term charismatic refers to the gifts of the Holy Spirit - speaking in tongues, healing, prophecy, and discernment - said to be available to Christians who have surrendered their lives to Christ. This book takes readers on a journey to discover the history of the movement and the reasons why more and more Christians are finding the experience so meaningful. In this importa…
Writing culture and writing fieldwork: The proliferation of experimental and experiential ethnographies
In this paper it is argued that the proliferation of ethnographic genres is the result of deliberate textual inventions by postmodernists, on the one hand, and a natural consequence of the method of participant-observation by experiential ethnographers, on the other. This implies that experimental and experiential ethnographies are distinct approaches to doing and writing fieldwork and culture. Consequently, experiential ethnographies have to be …
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