The Post-Secular in Question : : Religion in Contemporary Society /

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

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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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

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