Ivan Strenski
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 134009 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ivan Strenski |
| PRENOMES | Ivan |
| SOBRENOME | Strenski |
| ASSINATURA | STRENSKI I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7702-7891 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 90 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The American Anti-Vaxxer Covid Dead
Unlike earlier pandemics, where a “politics of blame” was directed against those who spread infection, the COVID pandemic in the United States has created occasions for the deployment of a “politics of commendation” for performing acts of sacrifice. Frontline healthcare workers have been celebrated for sacrificing themselves in service to their patients, even as critics have charged their being hapless victims of “social murder” at the hands of i…
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle
Owning 'Myth'
Conceptual critique of the concept of myth should be a priority for anyone using the word in scholarship. A critical attitude to "myth," first, consists in becoming aware that the term trades on the Greek, "mythos." Second, a critical approach recognizes the great range of uses of the term, from its hypothesized, upper-case form-"Myth"- to a variety of less exalted uses in lower case-"myth" or "myths." No common referent necessarily exists of the…
On the Jesuit-Maronite Provenance of Lebanon's Criminalization of Homosexuality
Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code, effectively, criminalizes homosexual practices. Most commentators have claimed that its existence in modern Lebanon is a “colonial relic,” specifically of the French Mandate, 1920–1946. But since 1791, French penal codes have not criminalized same-sex relations. I argue, instead, that Article 534 was the product of native religious, legal, and moral thinking among the Maronites, reinforced by the Thomistic …
Prospects for the Death of Europe
A recent theme recurs in the writing of cultural critics, like journalist, Douglas Murray and the speculative novelists, such as Michel Houellebecq, author of Submission, and Jean Raspail, creator of the influential and controversial rightwing work, The Camp of the Saints. All agree that Europe finds itself poised on the brink of carelessly losing its distinctive identity. These authors concur in blaming a combination of cultural and social sourc…
Max Müller, a ciência da religião comparada e a busca por outras “bíblias” na Índia
Tradução de Eduardo Rodrigues da Cruz (PUC-SP) gentilmente autorizada pelo autor. Texto originalmente publicado em STRENSKI, Ivan. Max Müller, the comparative study of religion, and the search for other Bibles in India. In: STRENSKI, Ivan. Understanding theories of religion: na introduction. 2nd ed. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, pp. 33-34
Why Durkheim really thought that Buddhism was a 'religion' (in memoriam Massimo Rosati)
In The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, and in ‘On the Definition of Religious Phenomena,' Durkheim famously asserted both that Buddhism was a ‘religion' and an ‘atheistic' one at that. Why he did so is a problem long-considered settled. Of two possible answers, one is commonplace, while the other is uncommon and consequential. I shall attempt to explicate Durkheim's uncommon and far- reaching, but overlooked, reasons for declaring atheist…
The beginnings of religion, with special attention to the North America board
This article outlines the genesis of the journal’s name as ‘Religion: A Journal of Religion and Religions’, Ninian Smart’s recruitment and formation of an international North American editorial board in the late 1970s, its early struggles to establish a distinctive niche among longer-lived, well-established, subsidized journals in the field, and the strategies that proved successful in its transformation into a commercially published quarterly
A história dos estudos da religião importa para a Ciência da Religião
Tradução (Fábio Stern) de uma palestra intitulada Does History of the Study of Religion Matter to the Study of Religion? sobre os desafios metodológicos na construção da história da ciência da religião, originalmente publicado em 1997. Visto a preocupação nos últimos três anos de pesquisadores da ciência da religião brasileira em levantar a história da disciplina no Brasil, a discussão de Strenski se apresenta como um contraponto internacional im…
Dishonoring Honor Killing and The Pursuit of Moderate Islam
Is the term, “moderate Islam,” an oxymoron? Is it only a way of congratulating or encouraging Muslims for being like us—for sharing liberal humanist egalitarian values? Is the term, “moderate Islam
Apocalypse, Revolution and Terrorism
I spent a good deal of my youth in deep conversation --with God.For the most part, this was a one-way affair.He (not yet, She) was there to hear my secret wishes, patiently endure my complaints, fears and worries, or to share moments of joy.But no heavenly voices called me to "Save France!", to be a prophet "unto the Gentiles," or even to swing at a 3-0 count.At the very most, there might have been that "still, quiet" voice, more a visceral conte…
« Il lisait tout, savait tout », mais il demeure inconnu
Une division du travail à l’intérieur de l’équipe de Durkheim Les chercheurs aimant à croire que le savoir, comme la vertu, est le garant de sa propre reconnaissance, d’aucuns pourraient conclure sans autre forme de procès que l’oubli dans lequel est tombé le travail d’Henri Hubert est certainement bien mérité. Pourtant, le fait que notre ignorance presque totale s’applique à quelqu’un qui, avec Mauss et Durkheim, a appartenu au noyau même de l’é…
Entretien avec Ivan Strenski
Strenski Ivan, Meylan Nicolas. Entretien avec Ivan Strenski. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°13, 2018. pp. 57-74
La mémoire et le temps
Quand Marcel Mauss entrait dans la lumière, son alter ego Henri Hubert (1872-1927) se retirait dans l'ombre. Les deux amis s'étaient pourtant promis de refonder ensemble l'étude des sociétés et des cultures : à Mauss les organisations et les pratiques sociales actuelles, et à Hubert celles du passé, dont témoignent l'histoire et l'archéologie. Ou encore : à Mauss l'espace, et à Hubert le temps
Do unto Others before They Do unto You
A little while ago, many readers might have questioned why a chronicle of Steve Bannon’s part in Trump’s storming of the presidency merited extensive review, particularly in the wake of his banishm
Emile Durkheim
The Varieties of Religious Repression
Ani Sarkissian has produced an impressive and useful piece of work—dense, highly wrought, and thought-provoking. Sarkissian tells us what she is about directly: “The central question of this book is why some countries choose to repress religion while others do not” (4). To her credit, Sarkissian says flat out that all governments restrict religion. No historian of Western politics or political theory would find this to be news. The State has rule…
Understanding Theories of Religion
Featuring comprehensive updates and additions, the second edition of Understanding Theories of Religion explores the development of major theories of religion through the works of classic and contemporary figures. • A new edition of this introductory text exploring the core methods and theorists in religion, spanning the sixteenth-century through to the latest theoretical trends • Features an entirely new section covering religion and postmoderni…
Ari Shavit Broods Over Israel's Sins and Celebrates Its Virtues
Ari Shavit. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel. New York: Random House, 2013. xiv + 445 pp., $28.00 hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-385-52170-3.My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of
Malinowski and the Work of Myth
Reply to my Critics
Final Replies to Kevin Schilbrack’s Response
Philosophy of (Lived) Religion
The cohabitation of philosophy with the study of religion has such a long history that we have not been motivated to consider the terms of that relationship. This paper proposes that this relationship needs to be examined radically. That is to say it proposes to query the nature, or possible natures, of the relationship of philosophy to the study of religion by posing such questions as the following: What kind of philosophy belongs in the study o…
Talal Asad’s ‘Religion’ Trouble and a Way Out
By this point, almost everyone is familiar with Talal Asad’s assault on the “religion” category. Despite his influence, Asad’s criticisms tend to oscillate between two mutually exclusive positions. I shall argue that Asad’s incoherence is instructive for the field as a whole. The study of religion would be better off constructing useful and revisable definitions of “religion” rather than abandoning the category all together
Between Heaven and Earth
Bob Orsi, master of the religious local and intimate, pulls us further into the world of pre-Vatican II Italian-American Catholicism. Here, we meet the religious world closest to his own memory, the sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter, circle of Orsi's own family. There, that “network of relationships between heaven and earth”—between the saints and those devoted to them—that fixes Orsi's attention. In chapter after chapter, Orsi in effect drives h…
On Generalized Exchange and the Domestication of the Sangha
Sangha and State in Burma
Religion, Power, and Final Foucault
Journal Article Religion, Power, and Final Foucault Get access Ivan Strenski Ivan Strenski Ivan Strenski is Holstein Family Community Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 2, SUMMER 1998, Pages 345-367, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/66.2.345 Published: 01 J…
Sacrifice, gift and the social logic of muslim 'human bombers
To understand Muslim ‘human bombers’, we obviously must see them within the discourse of jihad, but also within that of ‘sacrifices’ and ‘gifts’. From this perspective, ‘human bombers’ act because of their social relationships – whether these are with other human beings or with divine persons, conditions, or states of affairs. ‘Human bombings’ are not, therefore, simply matters of utilitarian military tactics, but are also religious and social as…
Talal Asad’s ‘Religion’ Trouble and a Way Out
By this point, almost everyone is familiar with Talal Asad’s assault on the “religion” category. Despite his influence, Asad’s criticisms tend to oscillate between two mutually exclusive positions. I shall argue that Asad’s incoherence is instructive for the field as a whole. The study of religion would be better off constructing useful and revisable definitions of “religion” rather than abandoning the category all together
La mémoire et le temps
Quand Marcel Mauss entrait dans la lumière, son alter ego Henri Hubert (1872-1927) se retirait dans l'ombre. Les deux amis s'étaient pourtant promis de refonder ensemble l'étude des sociétés et des cultures : à Mauss les organisations et les pratiques sociales actuelles, et à Hubert celles du passé, dont témoignent l'histoire et l'archéologie. Ou encore : à Mauss l'espace, et à Hubert le temps
The beginnings of religion, with special attention to the North America board
This article outlines the genesis of the journal’s name as ‘Religion: A Journal of Religion and Religions’, Ninian Smart’s recruitment and formation of an international North American editorial board in the late 1970s, its early struggles to establish a distinctive niche among longer-lived, well-established, subsidized journals in the field, and the strategies that proved successful in its transformation into a commercially published quarterly
Durkheim's Sociology of Religion
Falsifying Deep Structures
Between Heaven and Earth
Bob Orsi, master of the religious local and intimate, pulls us further into the world of pre-Vatican II Italian-American Catholicism. Here, we meet the religious world closest to his own memory, the sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter, circle of Orsi's own family. There, that “network of relationships between heaven and earth”—between the saints and those devoted to them—that fixes Orsi's attention. In chapter after chapter, Orsi in effect drives h…
Nous et les Autres
Why it Is Better to Know Some of the Questions Than All of the Answers
Karl Popper has argued that "problems" are central to any disciplined study (or science). This is (or should be) true as well of the study of religion. If "problems" are critical in this way, then a grasp of the problems of "religion" should be critical to the long-term intellectual seriousness and durability of the study of religion. Religious Studies needs to work on what a syllabus of such "problems" are, and to build the curriculum of the stu…
Religion in Relation
Part 1 From analysis to history: Mircea Eliade - some theoretical problems reductionism and structural anthropology falsifying deep structures Hubert, Mauss and the comparative social history of religions. Part 2 From enlightenment to exchange: gradual enlightenment, sudden enlightenment and empiricism Levi-Strauss and the Buddhists on generalized exchange and the domestication of the Sangha. Part 3 The moral location of theories: Heidegger is no…
Lessons for Religious Studies in Waco
Journal Article Lessons for Religious Studies in Waco? Get access Ivan Strenski Ivan Strenski Ivan Strenski is Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California—Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXI, Issue 3, Fall 1993, Pages 567–574, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXI.3.567 Published: 01 October 1993
Love and anarchy in Romania
Eliade is a problem: to at least half of today's historians of religion he embodies the discipline; to the other half he is anathema. I do not intend to review this debate here, nor to rehearse the themes of Eliade's massive oeuvre. I will, however, point over my shoulder to the mixed legacy of theoretical debts and doubts Eliade's work has inspired and try to bring them into relationship with the life story Eliade tells in the Autobiography. Thi…
Levi-Strauss and the Buddhists
This is by no means the first attempt to link Levi-Strauss with Buddhist thought. It is my purpose to make it, however, the most thorough and least eccentric comparison to date. I want to set the record straight about the nature and significance of Buddhist parallels in the thought of Claude Levi-Strauss
Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman
Myth, Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures
Journal Article Myth, Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures, by G. S. Kirk. Cambridge and Berkeley: Cambridge University Press and University of California Press, 1970, paperback 1973, 299 pp., $3.45 Get access Ivan Strenski Ivan Strenski Connecticut College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 35, Issue 1, Spring 1974, Pages 71–72, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710347…
The Phenomenon of Religion
Journal Article The Phenomenon of Religion, By Ninian Smart, New York: Herder and Herder, 1973, 157 pp., $6.95 and The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge, by Ninian Smart, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973, 164 pp., $8.50 Get access Ivan Strenski Ivan Strenski Connecticut College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 35, Issue 3, Autumn 1974, Pages 230–231,…
Falsifying Deep Structures
Reductionism and structural anthropology
The structural anthropology of Claude Lévi‐Strauss is reductionist in at least two senses. This at once brings out structural anthropology's ambivalent relationship to positivist conceptions of science, and to the complex nature of reduction. Reduction can be interpreted in at least three broad ways, and need not be construed as pejorative or as particular to positivist philosophy of science. Non‐positivist methods of reduction are at work when L…
Sangha and State in Burma
Gradual Enlightenment, Sudden Enlightenment and Empiricism
Levi-Strauss and the Buddhists
This is by no means the first attempt to link Levi-Strauss with Buddhist thought. It is my purpose to make it, however, the most thorough and least eccentric comparison to date. I want to set the record straight about the nature and significance of Buddhist parallels in the thought of Claude Levi-Strauss
Short review and book note
Yash Nandan Emile Durkheim. Contributions to ‘L'Année Sociologique’ 1980 Free Press New York Anthony Jackson, Na-khi Religion, Religion and Society 8, The Hague, Mouton 1979, 361 pp. DM 134 Shigeyoshi Murakami, Japanese Religion in the Modern Century, translated by H. Byron Earhart University of Tokyo Press 1980, 186 pp. £6.00 Bruce F. Campbell Ancient Wisdom Reviewed—A History of the Theosophical Movement, University of California Press, 1980. B…
Love and anarchy in Romania
Eliade is a problem: to at least half of today's historians of religion he embodies the discipline; to the other half he is anathema. I do not intend to review this debate here, nor to rehearse the themes of Eliade's massive oeuvre. I will, however, point over my shoulder to the mixed legacy of theoretical debts and doubts Eliade's work has inspired and try to bring them into relationship with the life story Eliade tells in the Autobiography. Thi…
On Generalized Exchange and the Domestication of the Sangha
Ernst Cassirer's mythical thought in Weimar culture
Short review and book note
Michael Carrithers, The forest monks of Sri Lanka: an anthropological and historical study, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. xii + 306. Rs 145 Philippe Besnard (editor), The sociological domain: The durkheimians and the founding of French sociology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. xii + 296. $44.50
Ritual, religion and the sacred
Ritual, religion and the sacred: Selections from the ‘annales: Economies, sociétés, civilisations’, volume 7." History of European Ideas, 6(3), pp. 362–363
Durkheim's Sociology of Religion
What structural mythology owes to Henri Hubert
In pointing to Durkheimian precedents for structuralism, Claude Lévi-Strauss typically indicates Marcel Mauss. Yet, although Mauss wrote much on myth, Lévi-Strauss never cites Mauss as setting precedents for structural mythology. This seems so for at least two reasons. First, Henri Hubert, not Mauss, turns out to be the real myth specialist of Emile Durkheim's original équipe, thus making the équipe's theory primarily Hubert's. Second, Hubert's t…
Our Very Own “Contras”
OUR VERY OWN “CONTRAS”: A RESPONSE TO THE “ST.LOUIS PROJECT” REPORT IVAN STRENSKI IVAN STRENSKI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 323–336, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIV.2.323 Published: 01 July 1986
The value of the individual
Henri Hubert, racial science and political myth
Henri Hubert developed early Durkheimian critiques of racial sciences such as anthroposociology from his perspective as an archeologist, historian, and ethnographer of primitive European religions. His major works on the "primitive" Celts and Germans continue these critiques of racism. But Hubert also engaged in the political mythologizing of French national identity by trading in the republican myth of "celtisme
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Theories and Social Facts
Authors appreciate being reviewed, perhaps even as much as being reviewed favourably. In this spirit, let me begin by complimenting my reviewers, Lome Dawson and Thomas Ryba, as well as thanking the editors of Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Ann Baranowski and John Morgan, for their attention to my book. Writing and publishing ought to be devoted to enhancing the life of our educational mission, and thus stimulating the growth of our …
Religious studies, naturalism, and the persistence of astrology
Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-Century History
What's rite
Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-Century History
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