Religion In Late Modernity

Author : Robert C. Neville
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791454244
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Late Modernity written by Robert C. Neville and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-07-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion in Late Modernity runs against the grain of common suppositions of contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. Against the common supposition that basic religious terms have no real reference but are mere functions of human need, the book presents a pragmatic theory of religious symbolism in terms of which the cognitive engagement of the Ultimate is of a piece with the cognitive engagement of nature and persons. Throughout this discussion, Neville develops a late-modern conception of God that is defensible in a global theological public. Against the common supposition that religion is on the retreat in late modernity except in fundamentalist forms, the author argues that religion in our time is a stimulus to religiously oriented scholarship, a civilizing force among world societies, a foundation for obligation in politics, a source for healthy social experimentation, and the most important mover of soul.

Author : Slavica Jakelic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317164202
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collectivistic Religions written by Slavica Jakelic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collectivistic Religions draws upon empirical studies of Christianity in Europe to address questions of religion and collective identity, religion and nationalism, religion and public life, and religion and conflict. It moves beyond the attempts to tackle such questions in terms of 'choice' and 'religious nationalism' by introducing the notion of 'collectivistic religions' to contemporary debates surrounding public religions. Using a comparison of several case studies, this book challenges the modernist bias in understanding of collectivistic religions as reducible to national identities. A significant contribution to both the study of religious change in contemporary Europe and the theoretical debates that surround religion and secularization, it will be of key interest to scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, political science, religious studies, and geography.

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148825X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Late Modernity written by Robert Cummings Neville and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion in Late Modernity runs against the grain of common suppositions of contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. Against the common supposition that basic religious terms have no real reference but are mere functions of human need, the book presents a pragmatic theory of religious symbolism in terms of which the cognitive engagement of the Ultimate is of a piece with the cognitive engagement of nature and persons. Throughout this discussion, Neville develops a late-modern conception of God that is defensible in a global theological public. Against the common supposition that religion is on the retreat in late modernity except in fundamentalist forms, the author argues that religion in our time is a stimulus to religiously oriented scholarship, a civilizing force among world societies, a foundation for obligation in politics, a source for healthy social experimentation, and the most important mover of soul. Against the common supposition that religious thinking or theology is confessional and inevitably biased in favor of the thinker's community, Neville argues for the public character of theology, the need for history and phenomenology of religion in philosophy of religion, and the possibility of objectivity through the contextualization of philosophy, contrary to the fashionable claims of neo-pragmatism. This vigorous analysis and program for religious thinking is straightforwardly pro-late-modern and anti-postmodern, a rousing gallop along the high road around modernism.

Author : Andrew Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134426402
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Education and Post-Modernity written by Andrew Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first to explore religious education and post-modernity in depth, sets out to provide a much needed examination of the problems and possibilities post-modernity raises for religious education. At once a general introduction to this topic and a distinctive contribution to the debate in its own right, Religion, Education and Post-modernity explores and illuminates the problems, and possibilities opened up for religious education by postmodern thought and culture. The book describes the emergence of post-modernity, considers the impact of post-modernity on religion, addresses its impact on the philosophy of religion and considers the nature of religious education in the post-modern world. Andrew Wright argues that, although post-modernity has much to offer the religious educator, there are also many pitfalls and dangers to be avoided. Steering clear of the extreme of post-modern hyper-realism, he constructs a religious pedagogy sensitive to post-modern concerns for alterity, difference and the voice of the Other, whilst insisting on the importance of reasons in cultivating religious literacy.

Author : Knut Lundby
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433120770
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion Across Media written by Knut Lundby and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection aims to examine religion across: historical media forms using a broad concept of «media», contemporary media with a focus on digital forms, religious traditions, and disciplinary approaches. This book attempts to address issues of religion and media precisely through establishing a cross-disciplinary scholarly dialogue on the subject of «religion across media».

Author : Michele Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521000789
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the Sociology of Religion written by Michele Dillon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-18 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Amos Yong
Publisher : Baylor University Press
ISBN 13 : 1602580065
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology and Down Syndrome written by Amos Yong and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While the struggle for disability rights has transformed secular ethics and public policy, traditional Christian teaching has been slow to account for disability in its theological imagination. Amos Yong crafts both a theology of disability and a theology informed by disability. The result is a Christian theology that not only connects with our present social, medical, and scientific understanding of disability but also one that empowers a set of best practices appropriate to our late modern context"--Publisher description.

Author : Zuzanna Bogumil
Publisher : Studies in History, Memory and Politics
ISBN 13 : 9783631673003
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Milieux de Mémoire in Late Modernity written by Zuzanna Bogumil and published by Studies in History, Memory and Politics. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how vernacular communities commemorate their traumatic experiences of World War II. It draws on four case studies: Kalków-Godów, Michniów, Jedwabne and Markowa, to argue that it is still possible in the Polish countryside to discover milieux de mémoire. The state also uses local histories to bolster its moral capital.

Author : Inger Furseth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788251922111
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Late Modernity written by Inger Furseth and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Heelas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Modernity, and Postmodernity written by Paul Heelas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this study of religion, theorise over modern culture, consider whether postmodern forms of religion exist and whether theories of religion framed in terms of modernity can be recast to suit new or emerging circumstances.