Religious Responses to Modernity /

Religious Responses to Modernity / / ed. by Yohanan Friedmann, Christoph Markschies.

The dawn of the modern age posed challenges to all of the world’s religions – and since then, religions have countered with challenges to modernity. In Religious Responses to Modernity, seven leading scholars from Germany and Israel explore specific instances of the face-off between religious though...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Feldhay, Rivka,
Garb, Jonathan,
Gerber, Simon,
Gershoni, Israel,
Markschies, Christoph,
Mendes-Flohr, Paul,
Schmidt, Christoph,
Zachhuber, Johannes,
HerausgeberIn:
Friedmann, Yohanan,
Markschies, Christoph ,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 141 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • The Rise and Decline of Protestant Rationalism
  • Individual and Community in Modern Debates about Religion and Secularism
  • The Conversion of the Jews: Identity as Ontology in Modern Kabbalah
  • Catholic Europe and Sixteenth-Century Science: A Path to Modernity?
  • Jewish Intellectuals on the Chimera of Progress: Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber and Leo Strauss
  • Depoliticization and Denationalization of Religion: Aḥmad Luṭfī al-Sayyid and the Relocation of Islam in Modern Life
  • Socrates against Christ? A Theological Critique of Michel Foucault’s Philosophy of Parrhesia
  • Contributors to This Volume
  • Index

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