Formations of Belief : : Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular / / ed. by Max Weiss, Katja Guenther, Philip Nord.
For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life-and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. Formations of Belief brings together many of today'...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Religious Pluralism and the Origins of the Secular
- 1. Past Belief
- 2. Jacob Sasportas and Jewish Messianism
- 3. Doubt and Unbelief in the Early Modern Era
- 4. Exeuntes de corpore qui sumus? "Out of the Body, Who Are We?"
- 5. In the Church and at Home
- Part II. Secularism and Its Discontents
- 6. An Ordinary Soviet Death
- 7. True Believers in the Modern Middle East
- 8. The Reformation Era and the Secularization of Knowledge
- 9. Contesting Secularization
- 10. Religious Minorities and the Anxieties of an Islamic Identity in Pakistan
- Afterword. Belief in Science? On the Neuroscience of Religion
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index