The Post-Secular City : : The New Secularization Debate / / Paolo Costa.

• VerfasserIn: Costa, Paolo, 1985-
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn, Germany : : Brill Schöningh,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society - Supplementa ; 2; Schöningh, Fink and mentis Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Includes index.

“The Post-Secular City” is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. “The Post-Secular City” examines the alleged shift from a “secular” to a “post-secular” dispensation from the perspective of the ongoing de-construction of the secularization “theorem” (as Hans Blumenberg called it). Accordingly, the new secularization debate is described as being polarized between the “de-constructors” and the “maintainers” of the standard thesis of secularization. This is the assumption underlying an ambitious effort to map the field, which consists of a long introduction where “secularization” is analyzed as a deeply problematic concept-of-process and of eight chapters in which several protagonists of the recent debate are discussed as crucial junctions of a multidisciplinary conversation.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Paolo Costa -- Copyright page / Paolo Costa -- Dedication / Paolo Costa -- Acknowledgements / Paolo Costa -- Introduction Secularization: A Modern Myth? / Paolo Costa -- Chapter 1 A Strange Dispute at the Deathbed of Religion: Blumenberg and Löwith Cross Swords / Paolo Costa -- Chapter 2 A Work of Demolition and Reconstruction: David Martin Defies the Establishment / Paolo Costa -- Chapter 3 In Search of a New Grand Narrative: Charles Taylor’s Secularity / Paolo Costa -- Chapter 4 Working within a New Paradigm: Hans Joas’s Convergent Trajectory / Paolo Costa -- Chapter 5 Standing on the Edges of the New Paradigm: A Postcolonial Point of View / Paolo Costa -- Chapter 6 A Probe into Deep Time: Marcel Gauchet and the Problematic Exit from Religion / Paolo Costa -- Chapter 7 The Fragile Supremacy of Reason: Jürgen Habermas and the Concept of Post-Secularity / Paolo Costa -- Chapter 8 After the Death of God: Nietzsche’s Long Shadow / Paolo Costa -- Chapter 9 Conclusion: Do We Still Need the Concept of Secularization? / Paolo Costa -- Index / Paolo Costa.