Religion, Modernity, and Postmodernity

✍ Scribed by Paul Heelas; Paul M. Morris; David Martin

Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 346
Series: Religion and modernity
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A collection of debates on both modern and postmodern religion from an international perspective. This looks at whether there are postmodern forms of religion and how the study of religion can be better integrated with recent developments in the study of culture.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction : on differentiation and dedifferentiation / Paul Heelas --
Cathedrals to cults : the evolving forms of the religious life / Steve Bruce --
Terminal faith / Mark C. Taylor --
Postmodern religion? / Zygmunt Bauman --
Tradition, retrospective perception, nationalism and modernism / Ninian Smart --
From fundamentalism to fundamentalisms : a religious ideology in multiple forms / Bruce B. Lawrence --
From pre- to postmodernity in Latin America : the case of Pentecostalism / Bernice Martin --
Secularization and citizenship in Muslim Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner --
Religion and national identity in modern and postmodern Japan / Winston Davis --
The construals of 'Europe' : religion, theology and the problematics of modernity / Richard H. Roberts --
Post-Christianity / Don Cupitt --
Kenosis and naming : beyond analogy and towards allegoria amoris / Graham Ward --
Sublimity : the modern transcendent / John Milbank --
The primacy of theology and the question of perception / Phillip Blond --
The impossible / Kevin Hart.

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