The Post-Secular in Question : : Religion in Contemporary Society / / ed. by Philip Gorski, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, John Torpey, David Kyuman Kim.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bender, Courtney,; Calhoun, Craig,; Dillon, Michele,; Gorski, Philip S.,; Kyuman Kim, David,; Madsen, Richard,; Mahoney, Kathleen,; Masuzawa, Tomoko,; Mendieta, Eduardo,; Schmalzbauer, John,; Smith, James K. A.,; Torpey, John,; Turner, Bryan S.,; VanAntwerpen, Jonathan,; de Vries, Hent,
• HerausgeberIn: Gorski, Philip,; Kim, David Kyuman,; Torpey, John,; VanAntwerpen, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Social Science Research Council ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 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 Jürgen 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 -- Index