Woodslane | Book - 9780814738726

Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy

The Post-Secular in Question

Religion in Contemporary Society

ISBN-13: 9780814738726
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Philip Gorski, Edited by David Kyuman Kim, Edited by John Torpey, Edited by Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Price: AUD $120.00
Stock: 0 in stock
Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
Local release date: 11/04/2012
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 375 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Religion: general [HRA]Sociology [JHB]

Description
Table of Contents
Google Preview: The Post-Secular in Question considers whether there has in fact been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in recent decades. This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today's world. Foregrounding the most urgent and compelling questions raised by the place of religion in the social sciences, past and present, The Post-Secular in Question restores religion to a more central place in social scientific thinking about the world, helping to move scholarship "beyond unbelief." Contributors: Courtney Bender, Craig Calhoun, Michele Dillon, Philip S. Gorski, Richard Madsen, Kathleen Mahoney, Tomoko Masuzawa, Eduardo Mendieta, John Schmalzbauer, James K. A. Smith, John Torpey, Bryan S. Turner, Hent de Vries.; The Post-Secular in Question 2 What Is Religion? Categorical Reconfigurations in a Global Horizon 3 Things in Their Entanglements 4 Recovered Goods: Durkheimian Sociology as Virtue Ethics 5 "Simple Ideas, Small Miracles": The Obama Phenomenon 6 Post-Secular Society: Consumerism and the Democratization of Religion 7 Secular Liturgies and the Prospects for a "Post-Secular" Sociology of Religion 8 Secular by Default? Religion and the University before the Post-Secular Age 9 Religion and Knowledge in the Post-Secular Academy 10 Jurgen Habermas and the Post-Secular Appropriation of Religion: A Sociological Critique 11 Religion and Secularization in the United States and Western Europe 12 Spiritual Politics and Post-Secular Authenticity: Foucault and Habermas on Post-Metaphysical Religion 13 Time, World, and Secularism About the Contributors; Google Preview content

Popular Subjects

Woodslane Online Catalogues

The Post-Secular in Question

Religion in Contemporary Society