近年來台灣受過高等教育的知識份子，熱中參與新興宗教及擬似宗教的修煉團體。本研究的目的是希望瞭解受世俗理性教育下的知識份子，為何會投入民間教派的靜坐修煉活動，並討論當初學習靜坐的動機與需求，以及對宗教是否有另一套科學－理性的理解模式。 本研究採質性研究取向，以天帝教中知識份子為個案，透過參與觀察、非結構式訪談及文獻分析等方法，試圖瞭解天帝教知識份子參與靜坐修煉的歷程，包括學習靜坐的動機，在修煉過程中的神秘經驗、社會關係的轉變，以及參與信仰論述合理化的行動。 研究發現學習靜坐的動機可分為「解決問題取向」及「非解決問題取向」，前者是被迫要解決具危機感的問題與麻煩；後者為了滿足生命更高的需求層次。靜坐改變以小我為中心世界觀，轉向注重大我，因此家庭關係跟人際關係都趨向和諧，人生觀也從追求個人成就轉向謀求眾人福祉。至於從單純靜坐學習者到成為融入組織的虔信者，中間轉換過程是經由突然跳躍的意識。 最後，本文也指出三項天帝教知識份子對於自我角色的定位模式，藉此凸顯他們在不同知識系統間如何加自我調適，乃至於說明當代知識份子跟宗教團體間的關係及其角色。 關鍵詞：新興宗教、天帝教、知識份子、靜坐、宗教經驗 / Recent years in Taiwan, new religions and religion-like spiritual practice cults appeal to higher educated intellectuals. The main purpose of this study is to realize why these science-ration educated intellectuals were enthusiastic in sectarian religious practice. In this study we discussed their motivation and need for learning meditation. Further more, we'd also like to know whether they have some kind of science-ration patterns of cognition on their religion belief and practice. By case study on The Lord of Universe Church (T'ienti Chiao), a qualitative aspect, such as participant observation, non-structed interview and literature analysis is employed by this study, which tries to understand the process of the intellectuals among the Lord of Universe Church participating in meditation practice, including their motivation of learning meditation, mystical experience of“CHI”, changing of relationships, and the construction of rationalizing belief discourse. Key Words: new religions/ The Lord of Universe Church (The T'ientVs Teachings/ T'ienti Chiao)/ intellectuals/ meditation practice (Quiet Sitting)/ religious experience

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2017-06-28T14:15:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MAIARA RUBIA MIGUEL.pdf: 1427408 bytes, checksum: 61a34cc9b9b1c406fb22ca38bbfb9af8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-28T14:15:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MAIARA RUBIA MIGUEL.pdf: 1427408 bytes, checksum: 61a34cc9b9b1c406fb22ca38bbfb9af8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-12 / Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas ? PUC Campinas / This study aims to analyze the influences that a religious model has on a religious community, stablishing a correlation between Max Scheler?s conception of religious model, ethical progress and religious experience with the bible text Sermon on Mount, specially, the Antitheses (Mt 5, 17-48) and the Lord?s Prayer ritual orientation. With this purpose, in this study is made a research to identify the religious model from Matthew?s community to understand the powerful influence to the construction of the meanings in the social world of this community. This study was possible approaching Max Scheler?s phenomenological works to contextualize the religious model, religious experience and ethical progress concepts. As well as, it was necessary to go deep in historical, social and exegetical aspects from Matthew?s bible text. It was necessary to enable the correlation method associated to the Matthew?s bible text phenomenological analyses to apply Scheler?s horizon to the bible reality, to answer what is the relation between a religious model and religious experience in the community from the Matthew?s bible text. / O presente trabalho tem o prop?sito de analisar as for?as de influ?ncia que o modelo religioso exerce em uma comunidade religiosa. Isso se fundamenta a partir da correla??o estabelecida entre a conceitua??o de modelo religioso, progresso ?tico e experi?ncia religiosa ao mundo social apreendido do texto b?blico o Serm?o da Montanha. A an?lise ter? como objeto a releitura do texto o Serm?o da Montanha, localizado no Evangelho de Mateus, em espec?fico, as Ant?teses (Mt 5.17-48) e a orienta??o ritual?stica do Pai-Nosso (Mt 6.5-15), ? luz do pensamento de Max Scheler. Partindo desse prop?sito, busca-se identificar o modelo religioso da comunidade mateana e compreender a for?a de influ?ncia desse modelo nos significados do mundo social dessa comunidade. O arcabou?o conceitual foi constru?do tendo como base obras do per?odo fenomenol?gico de Max Scheler para contextualiza??o dos conceitos de modelo religioso, progresso ?tico e experi?ncia religiosa. Foi necess?ria a constru??o de uma abordagem cr?tica dos aspectos hist?ricos, sociais e exeg?ticos da per?cope mateana. Por isso, foi poss?vel, a partir do m?todo da correla??o associado ? an?lise fenomenol?gica do Evangelho de Mateus, aplicar o horizonte conceitual scheleriano ? realidade dos vers?culos b?blicos, a fim de responder qual a rela??o entre modelo religioso e experi?ncia religiosa da comunidade mateana.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luzia Maria de Oliveira Sena.pdf: 5567574 bytes, checksum: 664c8a39ea9a548e807beab4d1adb365 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-11 / The subject of this research is to analyze the catholic parties called cristotecas , promoted since 2003 by the group Movimento Eclesial Aliança de Misericórdia , in São Paulo city. It aims to know the origin, the objectives, the organizative structure of the cristotecas , as well as the intents of the young people who take part of them and the influence of these parties over the youth. The cristotecas are analysed from the point of view of their inclusion in a wider context, configured by social and cultural changes the modern contemporary societies are passing over, whose transformations fall over the religious field and rouse new forms of organization and religious expressions. The focus of the investigation aims to verify how the music and the dance both coexisting along the human existence with religious purposes are used by the cristoteca not only for youth‟s leisure and entertainment, but specially as an strategy of evangelization: to attract the young people, to provide them a religious experience and an encounter with God, and to bring them to the Catholic Church communitarian convivial / Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo as baladas católicas, denominadas cristotecas, promovidas desde 2003 pelo Movimento Eclesial Aliança de Misericórdia, na cidade de São Paulo. Visa conhecer a origem, os objetivos, a estrutura organizativa das cristotecas, as motivações dos jovens que delas participam e a influência destas baladas na vida desses jovens. As cristotecas são analisadas a partir da sua inserção num contexto mais amplo, configurado pelas mudanças socioculturais por que passam as sociedades modernas contemporâneas, cujas transformações incidem sobre o campo religioso, suscitando novas formas de organização e expressões religiosas. O foco da investigação tem por objetivo verificar como a música e a dança  presentes no decorrer da história da humanidade com finalidade religiosa são utilizadas nas cristotecas, não apenas como um meio de lazer e entretenimento para a juventude, mas, especialmente, como uma estratégia de evangelização: atrair os jovens, proporcionar-lhes uma experiência religiosa, um encontro com Deus, e trazê-los para o convívio da Igreja Católica

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Natividade.pdf: 1451284 bytes, checksum: 1b14c0df124576d44902e5d57968b434 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-06-21 / Família Cristã magazine has started in Italy as an important vehicle to accomplish the dream of Saint Paul´s Society´s Founder who wanted to spread the Gospel all over the world by using modern media. The magazine was founded in Brazil in 1934. In its beginning it was only a leaflet, but to-day it is one of the most spread magazines that propagate religion and Catholicism in Brazil. In the magazine, we outlined the object of our research, by focusing the matters of the Section Cultura Popular (Popular Culture) in the years 1980 and 1981. After an introduction about Saint Paul´s Society, its Founder and about the origin and evolution of the magazine in Italy and in Brazil, we described the Section and commented the topics that disclose the catholic popular culture and religion. Then we organized the subjects in five themes: devotions, folklore and folkloric rhythms, myths of popular faith, pilgrimages, and saints. Based on theoretical references, we analyzed the aspects of the popular religiosity that appear in the matters. The magazine´s purpose is to describe and to expose the subjects without special intention of analyzing and commenting them. However, in our research, we found a richness of themes for religious studies. The religious atmosphere of the matters may be red in the light of Puebla´s Conference description of catholic popular religiosity. The subjects we studied gave chance to point out a rich repertory of cultural, religious and existential values of the popular religiosity that indicate concretely and deeply the encounter of the divine and the human life, that goes further than the ritual manifestations and creates a peculiar vision of the world, the so called sensus fidei that makes the sacred always present in all aspects of life / A Revista Família Cristã teve origem na Itália e nasceu como um dos veículos para realizar o grande sonho do fundador da Família Paulina no intuito de levar o Evangelho a todos os povos. Foi implantada no Brasil em 1934, começando como um simples folheto. Hoje é uma das maiores revistas de divulgação da religião e do catolicismo. Nesta revista, recortamos o objeto da nossa pesquisa, a saber, o estudo da religiosidade popular que aparece nas matérias da Seção Cultura Popular nos anos de 1980 e 1981. Depois de um capítulo introdutório sobre a Família Paulina, seu fundador e as origens e a evolução da Revista na Itália e no Brasil, passamos a descrever a Seção e a comentar as 26 matérias que abordam a cultura e a religiosidade popular brasileira. Além de descrever e comentar,organizamos as matérias em grupos temáticos e levantamos a partir delas questões para análise pelos estudiosos da religião. Os grupos temáticos são as devoções, o folclore e os ritmos folclóricos, os mitos na fé do povo, as romarias, os santos, todos eles no cenário da religiosidade popular católica. A pesquisa buscou também ir além da descrição e organização das matérias e estabelecer, a partir de referenciais teóricos, uma análise interpretativa dos vários aspectos da religiosidade popular trazidos pelas reportagens. Apesar da índole descritiva e narrativa das matérias, descobriu-se nelas um rico temário para os estudos da religião. O halo religioso que permeia essas manifestações reflete com muita propriedade o entendimento do Documento de Puebla sobre a religiosidade popular. A partir das matérias foi possível apontar um repertório dos mais significativos de valores culturais, religiosos e existenciais que impregnam a religiosidade popular e manifestam de modo concreto e profundo a experiência do encontro do humano com o divino, que vai além da festa, da dança, do ritual e cria uma visão de mundo peculiar. O sensus fidei, pelo qual o sagrado sempre está presente em todas as contingências da vida

Nikos Kazantzakis� Captain Michales is a freedom fighter in nineteenth century Crete. Patrick White�s Voss is a German explorer in nineteenth century Australia. Two men struggling for achievement, their disparate social contexts united in the same fundamental search for meaning. This thesis makes comparison of these different struggles through thematic analysis of the texts, examining within the narratives the role of food, perceptions of body and soul, landscapes, gender relations, home-coming and religious experience. Themes from the novels are extracted and intertwined, within a range of theoretical frameworks: history, anthropology, science, literary and social theories, religion and politics; allowing close investigation of each novel�s social, political and historical particularities, as well as their underlying discussion of perennial human issues. These novels are each essentially explorations of the human experience. Read together, they highlight the commonest of human elements, most poignantly the need for communion; facilitating analysis of the individual and all our communities. Comparing the two novels also continues the process of each: examining the self both within and outside of the narratives, producing a new textual self, arising from both primary sources and the contextual breadth of such rewriting.

Since its inception, the Internet has served as a powerful medium for the dissemination of religious information and the creation of religious communities. Cyberspace now represents an important global paradigm shift in the way religion is conducted. This research provides a sociological account of the affordances the Internet contributes to religious life by examining the ways in which it has influenced the conduct or practices associated with Buddhism. In particular, it assesses the extent to which the rituals constitutive of the Buddhist practice of meditation have been achieved by the Cybersangha, the term Buddhists use for the online Buddhist community. The thesis argues that the Internet is not well suited to the facilitation of particular types of religious understanding and that there are clear limitations to its ability to provide the shared ritualistic experience necessitated by meditation. This is due to the fact that current technology can enable ritual only to a limited degree, and to the ways in which the textual nature of the Internet poses problems for religious experience of an intuitive, non-mediated nature. For these reasons, despite the fact that many websites advertise ‘online meditation’ and despite the strong attempts of some communities to use the Internet as a meditational medium, online meditation cannot be fully facilitated by the Internet. Since a key method by which a Buddhist attains understanding of reality is the use of the body in a meditative act, the inability to provide for embodiment means that the Internet can never offer an experiential equivalent to that of an offline environment. The lack of this experiential aspect means that it cannot in turn provide for holistic, religious communion. As such, there needs to be a further philosophical and practical appraisal of the capabilities of the Internet in general, and as a medium by which a religious experience can be engendered.

From the claims of punk rocker GG Allin aiming to shed his own blood for Rock ‘n’ Roll to the religiously tinted narratives of Bruce Springsteen we come to find artists using religious references to color their artistic medium. A question arises: Could these utterances and narratives show a deeper meaning behind Rock ‘n’ Roll such that it can give individuals a way to obtain religious experience? This thesis aims at arguing for the ability of Rock ‘n’ Roll as having a way to incite feelings of religious experience and communitas. Through the usage of auto-ethnography coupled with subsidiary sources from academic to pop culture writers this thesis will investigate if such a creative form helps to enable individuals to experience transcendence and feelings of community while immersed in Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Der Gegenstand dieser Dissertation sind Konversionsprozesse von Angehörigen der Evangelischen Landeskirchen in Deutschland (EKD); insbesondere geht es um die Art und Weise, wie Menschen die Veränderung ihrer Persönlichen Religion erleben. Die Theorie ist aus der religionssoziologischen, religionswissenschaftlichen und religionspsychologischen Konversionsforschung der letzten 100 Jahre abgeleitet und mittels quantitativer Verfahren geprüft worden. Drei Ergebnisse sind für die Arbeit zentral: 1. Anstatt Mitglieder devianter religiöser Gruppen zu befragen und die Motivlagen zur Mitgliedschaft zu erforschen, bilden Aussagen von Angehörigen der Evangelischen Kirchen in Deutschland die Datengrundlage. Auch bei ihnen ist nachweisbar, dass Konversionen zu biographischen Rekonstruktionen führen, die sich an der Norm der Religionsgemeinschaft orientieren. In der EKD ist das normative Spektrum breit, sodass hier Konversion sowohl als plötzliche (radikale) Veränderung als auch als gradueller Wandel sowie als unbewusster Prozess im Laufe der Biographie erlebt wird. 2. Über die biographische Rekonstruktion des Vorher-Nachher-Unterschieds der veränderten Persönlichen Religion hinaus sollten die Befragten angeben, als wie intensiv oder umfassend sie diese Veränderung erlebt haben. Anhand der Daten lässt sich zeigen, dass bei einem intensiveren Veränderungserleben auch die persönliche Religion zentraler für die Lebensvollzüge ist. 3. Die quantitativen Methoden haben es ermöglicht, sowohl die soziale Normzuordnung als auch das psychische Intensivierungserleben in ihrer Bedeutsamkeit für die Erklärung von Konversionsprozessen zu vergleichen. Beide Zugänge ergänzen einander in Abhängigkeit der Fragestellung: Die Zuordnung zur sozial normierten Erlebensweise der Konversion ist der stärkere Prädiktor für die biographsiche Rekonstruktion, die erlebte Intensität der Verändung ist der stärkere Prädiktor für den Zentralität der Persönlichen Religion (außer für den seltenen plötzlichen Konversionstyp). Allerdings trägt der jeweils andere Prädiktor zusätzlich zur Varianzaufklärung der jeweiligen zu erklärenden Variable bei. In einem umfassenderen Rahmen wird für die Religionswissenschaft diskutiert, dass religionssoziologische Theorieansätze sinnvoll und notwendig durch religionspsychologische ergänzt werden sollten.

Since its inception, the Internet has served as a powerful medium for the dissemination of religious information and the creation of religious communities. Cyberspace now represents an important global paradigm shift in the way religion is conducted. This research provides a sociological account of the affordances the Internet contributes to religious life by examining the ways in which it has influenced the conduct or practices associated with Buddhism. In particular, it assesses the extent to which the rituals constitutive of the Buddhist practice of meditation have been achieved by the Cybersangha, the term Buddhists use for the online Buddhist community. The thesis argues that the Internet is not well suited to the facilitation of particular types of religious understanding and that there are clear limitations to its ability to provide the shared ritualistic experience necessitated by meditation. This is due to the fact that current technology can enable ritual only to a limited degree, and to the ways in which the textual nature of the Internet poses problems for religious experience of an intuitive, non-mediated nature. For these reasons, despite the fact that many websites advertise ‘online meditation’ and despite the strong attempts of some communities to use the Internet as a meditational medium, online meditation cannot be fully facilitated by the Internet. Since a key method by which a Buddhist attains understanding of reality is the use of the body in a meditative act, the inability to provide for embodiment means that the Internet can never offer an experiential equivalent to that of an offline environment. The lack of this experiential aspect means that it cannot in turn provide for holistic, religious communion. As such, there needs to be a further philosophical and practical appraisal of the capabilities of the Internet in general, and as a medium by which a religious experience can be engendered.

Nikos Kazantzakis� Captain Michales is a freedom fighter in nineteenth century Crete. Patrick White�s Voss is a German explorer in nineteenth century Australia. Two men struggling for achievement, their disparate social contexts united in the same fundamental search for meaning. This thesis makes comparison of these different struggles through thematic analysis of the texts, examining within the narratives the role of food, perceptions of body and soul, landscapes, gender relations, home-coming and religious experience. Themes from the novels are extracted and intertwined, within a range of theoretical frameworks: history, anthropology, science, literary and social theories, religion and politics; allowing close investigation of each novel�s social, political and historical particularities, as well as their underlying discussion of perennial human issues. These novels are each essentially explorations of the human experience. Read together, they highlight the commonest of human elements, most poignantly the need for communion; facilitating analysis of the individual and all our communities. Comparing the two novels also continues the process of each: examining the self both within and outside of the narratives, producing a new textual self, arising from both primary sources and the contextual breadth of such rewriting.