Social Imaginaries in a Globalizing World / / ed. by Hans Alma, Guido Vanheeswijck.

How to study the contemporary dynamics between the religious, the nonreligious and the secular in a globalizing world? Obviously, their relationship is not an empirical datum, liable to the procedures of verification or of logical deduction. We are in need of alternative conceptual and methodologica...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Religion and Its Others : Studies in Religion, Nonreligion and Secularity , 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (269 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction to Social Imaginaries in a Globalizing World
  • Section 1: Social Imaginaries. A Historical and Conceptual Analysis
  • On the Philosophical Genealogy of the Concept Social Imaginaries
  • Social Imaginaries A Conceptual Analysis
  • Retrieving Realism in Social Imaginaries
  • Section 2: Social Imaginaries as Meaningful Spaces
  • Contrast Experiences and Social Imaginaries as Spaces for Truth-Seeking
  • The Play of the World Social Imaginaries as Transcending Spaces: From Taylor to Nietzsche
  • ‘Plus de Biens’: Jacques Derrida and Charles Taylor
  • Section 3: Human Rights and Migration — (Post‐)Secular Social Imaginaries in Contemporary Perspective
  • Studying Culture through Imaginaries Some Reflections on the Relevance of Imaginaries for the Social Sciences
  • Human Rights as a Secular Social Imaginary in the Field of Transitional Justice The Dutch-Indonesian ‘Rawagede Case’
  • Europe and the Human Rights Imaginary The Role of Perceptions of Human Rights in Europe and Migration Aspirations
  • Post-Secular Nationalism The Dutch Turn to the Right & Cultural-Religious Reframing of Secularity
  • List of Contributors
  • Index