The Secularization Debate


The Secularization Debate
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The Secularization Debate


The Secularization Debate
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Author : William H. Swatos
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2000

The Secularization Debate written by William H. Swatos and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Religion categories.


Introduced to social scientific audiences by Max Weber, the concept of secularization has had a major influence on the way in which religion has been understood in the West. But at least since the late 1980s both the predictive and the descriptive adequacy of this concept have been seriously challenged. In the face of this challenge, The Secularization Debate offers a timely summary of the critical issues that have arisen over the past decade. With its wide range of essays by prominent international scholars, The Secularization Debate is sure to become a pivotal volume for anyone interested in the hotly contested concept of secularization and its continued relevance to the study of religion.



The Post Secular City


The Post Secular City
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Author : Paolo Costa
language : en
Publisher: Brill U Schoningh
Release Date : 2022

The Post Secular City written by Paolo Costa and has been published by Brill U Schoningh this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.


The Post-Secular City is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. The Post-Secular City examines the alleged shift from a secular to a post-secular dispensation from the perspective of the ongoing de-construction of the secularization theorem (as Hans Blumenberg called it). Accordingly, the new secularization debate is described as being polarized between the de-constructors and the maintainers of the standard thesis of secularization. This is the assumption underlying an ambitious effort to map the field, which consists of a long introduction where secularization is analyzed as a deeply problematic concept-of-process and of eight chapters in which several protagonists of the recent debate are discussed as crucial junctions of a multidisciplinary conversation.



Contesting Modernity In The German Secularization Debate


Contesting Modernity In The German Secularization Debate
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Author : Sjoerd Griffioen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-01-10

Contesting Modernity In The German Secularization Debate written by Sjoerd Griffioen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-10 with Philosophy categories.


Sjoerd Griffioen investigates the polemics between Löwith, Blumenberg and Schmitt in the German secularization debate (1950’s-1980’s). ‘Secularization’ is revealed as a contested concept in ideological struggles over modernity and religion, both in this debate and contemporary postsecularism.



Patterns Of Secularization


Patterns Of Secularization
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Author : Daphne Halikiopoulou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15

Patterns Of Secularization written by Daphne Halikiopoulou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Religion categories.


The politicization of religion is a central feature of the modern world, pointing to the continued relevance of the secularization debate: does modernization result in the decline of the social and political significance of religion or rather in a reaffirmation of religious values? This book examines the emergence of different patterns of secularization. It identifies the circumstances under which religion may remain or cease to be politically active and legitimate in societies where secularization has been initially inhibited given a strong identification with the nation. Arguing that in such societies the Church draws its power not only from its relationship with the state but also its relationship with the nation, this book identifies two patterns of secularization: (a) co-optation, and (b) confrontation. The redefinition of the Church, state and nation nexus is likely to result in secularization if (a) the church obstructs the modernisation process (church and state), and (b) if external threat perceptions decline (church and nation). The simultaneous presence of these constraints serves to redefine the role of religion in the formation of national identity. Comparing Greece and the Republic of Ireland as two cultural defence cases with a strong variation in the political and social salience of religion, this book explains Ireland's current secularization drive in terms of the fluidity of Irish national identity and the rigidity of the Irish Catholic Church (confrontation). It contrasts this with the Greek case where the Church's resilience is linked to institutional flexibility on the one hand and a reliance on an ethnic/religious national identity on the other (co-optation). In conceptualizing the contemporary role of religion in the Republic of Ireland and Greece, this book draws a number of generalizable conclusions about the political role of religion in cultural defence cases.



Religion And Modernization


Religion And Modernization
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Author : Steve Bruce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

Religion And Modernization written by Steve Bruce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Secularism categories.




Religion And Modern Society


Religion And Modern Society
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Author : Bryan S. Turner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-31

Religion And Modern Society written by Bryan S. Turner and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-31 with Social Science categories.


Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicultural, multi-faith societies and legal pluralism in terms of citizenship and the state, with special emphasis on the problems of defining religion and the sacred in the secularisation debate. He explores a range of issues central to current debates: the secularisation thesis itself, the communications revolution, the rise of youth spirituality, feminism, piety and religious revival. Religion and Modern Society contributes to political and ethical controversies through discussions of cosmopolitanism, religion and globalisation. It concludes with a pessimistic analysis of the erosion of the social in modern society and the inability of new religions to provide 'social repair'.



Genealogies Of The Secular


Genealogies Of The Secular
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Author : Willem Styfhals
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2019-10-30

Genealogies Of The Secular written by Willem Styfhals and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-30 with Philosophy categories.


While the concept of secularization is traditionally used to define the nature of modern culture, and sometimes to uncover the theological origins of secular modernity, its validity is being questioned ever more radically today. Genealogies of the Secular returns to the historical, intellectual, and philosophical roots of this concept in the twentieth-century German debates on religion and modernity, and presents a wide range of strategies that German thinkers have applied to apprehend the connection between religion and secularism. In fundamentally heterogeneous ways, these strategies all developed "genealogies of the secular" by tracing modern phenomena back to their religious or theological roots. This book aims to disclose the complex prehistory of the contemporary debates on political theology and postsecularism, and to show how prominent thinkers continue this German tradition today. It explores and assesses the classic theories of secularization that are epitomized in Carl Schmitt's writings on political theology, but also addresses German philosophers whose work has been rarely associated with secularization, including Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, and Hannah Arendt. Attention is also paid to two thinkers whose role in these discourses has not been fully explored yet: Jacob Taubes and Jan Assmann. By introducing their thinking on religion, politics, and secularization, the book also makes two of their own key texts available to an English-language readership.



The Future Of Christianity


The Future Of Christianity
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Author : David Martin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-16

The Future Of Christianity written by David Martin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-16 with Religion categories.


This book offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David Martin over some fifty years, complementing his book On Secularization. Deploying secularisation as an omnibus word bringing many dimensions into play, Martin argues that the boundaries of the concept of secularisation must not be redefined simply to cover aberrant cases, as when the focus was more on America as an exception rather than on Europe as an exception to the 'furiously religious' character of the rest of the world. Particular themes of focus include the dialectic of Christianity and secularization, the relation of Christianity to multiple enlightenments and modes of modernity, the enigmas of East Germany and Eastern Europe, and the rise of the transnational religious voluntary association, including Pentecostalism, as that feeds into vast religious changes in the developing world. Doubts are cast on the idea that religion has ever been privatised and has lately reentered the public realm. The rest of the book deals with the relation of the Christian repertoire to the nexus of religion and politics, including democracy and violence and sharply criticises polemical assertions of a special relation of religion to violence, and explores the contributions of 'cognitive science' to the debate



Handbook Of The Sociology Of Religion


Handbook Of The Sociology Of Religion
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Author : Michele Dillon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-08-18

Handbook Of The Sociology Of Religion written by Michele Dillon and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-18 with Religion categories.


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Secularisations And Their Debates


Secularisations And Their Debates
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Author : Matthew Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-10-30

Secularisations And Their Debates written by Matthew Sharpe and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-30 with Philosophy categories.


This volume explores timely topics in contemporary political and social debates, including: the new atheisms, the debate between Habermas and the Pope on the fate of modernity, and the impact of new scientific developments on traditional religions. This book collects articles first presented at the Deakin University "World in Crisis" workshop, held November 2010 by leading Australasian philosophers and theologians. It addresses questions raised by the recent, much-touted return to religion, including possible reasons for the return and its practical, political, and intellectual prospects. Secularisation and Their Debates is not afraid to provide answers to such questions as: Is religion only ever a force of political reaction in modernity, or are there resources in it which progressive, even secular social movements, could engage with or adopt? Are the new atheisms, or on the opposite side, the new fundamentalisms, really novel phenomena, or has religion only ever been artificially sidelined in the modern Western states? Has modern liberalism only really been kidding itself about its non-doctrinal neutrality between different faiths, and if so, what should follow? This book will appeal to researchers in the philosophy of religion, social sciences, political philosophy, and anthropology.