Secularisations and Their Debates Perspectives on the Return of Religion in the Contemporary West

Secularisations and Their Debates Perspectives on the Return of Religion in the Contemporary West / edited by Matthew Sharpe, Dylan Nickelson.

This volume explores timely topics in contemporary political and social debates, including: the new atheisms, the debate between Habermas and the Pope on the fate of modernity, and the impact of new scientific developments on traditional religions. This book collects articles first presented at the...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sharpe, Matthew (Editor), Nickelson, Dylan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 5
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Religion—Philosophy.
Social sciences.
Modern philosophy.
Political philosophy.
Anthropology.
Philosophy.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Secularization and its Discontents
  • M. Sharpe, D. Nickelson
  • 2. Disenchantments of secularism: the West and India, P. Bilimoria
  • 3. Locke, secularism and the justice of the secular solution: towards a self-reflective transcending of secular-self understanding, P.A. Quadrio
  • 4. Marx and the Christian logic of the secular state, R.  Boer
  • 5. Spirit matters: Life after secularism and religion? J. Rossouw
  • 6. Counter-secularism: parsing the theological cure for our modern malady, D. Nickelson
  • 7. ‘In the Beginning Was ... the Story’? On Secularisation, Narrative, and Nominalisms, M. Sharpe
  • 8. Enjoy your Enlightenment! New Atheism, fanaticism and the joys of other people’s illusions, B. Cooke
  • 9. Against fundamentalism: The silence of the Divine in the work of Karen Armstrong, P. Brown
  • 10. Secularism stuck in the End-Times: From Alexandre Kojève to the recent Messianic Turn, R. Jeffs
  • 11. Charles Taylor’s search for transcendence: mystery, suffering, violence, J. Rundell
  • 12. Towards post-secular Enlightenment, W. Hudson.

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