ISBN:
9004185445
,
9789004185449
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 406 p)
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
International studies in religion and society v. 13
Parallel Title:
Print version Exploring the Postsecular : The Religious, the Political and the Urban
DDC:
306.609/051
Keywords:
Cities and towns Religious aspects
;
Religion and sociology
Abstract:
The re-emergence of the religious in secular domains has led prominent scholars such as Jrgen Habermas and Charles Taylor to speculate about a new postsecular age. The alleged shift from the secular to the postsecular is most visible in the spheres of urban public space, governance and civil society. This volume addresses contemporary relations between religion, politics and urban societies primarily from a theoretical perspective, while also paying attention to empirical manifestations of the central conceptual ideas. The primary focus is the relations between public religion, deprivatization
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Part One Exploring the Field: Introductory Essays; Transcending the Particular in Postsecular Cities; Cutting through the Postsecular City: A Spatial Interrogation; Part Two Conceptualizing the Postsecular; Spaces of Postsecularism; Contrasting Modernities: 'Postsecular' Europe and Enspirited Latin America; How Ethnocentric is the Concept of the Postsecular?; The Transformation of Religious Culture within Modern Societies: From Secularization to Postsecularism
Description / Table of Contents:
Voicing the Self in Postsecular Society: A Psychological Perspective on Meaning-Making and Collective Identities'God made the Country, and Man Made the Town': Some Observations on the Place of Religion in the Western (Post)Secular City; Making Sense of Sacred Space in the City?; Inscribing the General Theory of Secularization and its Basic Patterns in the Architectural Space/Time of the City: From Presecular to Postsecular?; Religion and the Salvation of Urban Politics: Beyond Cooption, Competition and Commodification; Theo-Ethics and Radical Faith-Based Praxis in the Postsecular City
Description / Table of Contents:
The End of the Secular City Dream: The Case of AnkaraPostsecularism or Late Secularism? Faith Creating Place in the US; Virtual Re-Evangelization: Brazilian Churches, Media and the Postsecular City; Beyond the Secular? Public Reason and the Search for a Concept of Postsecular Legitimacy; Restraints on Religious Reasoning in the Political Square?; Public Reason and Inclusionism as Pseudo-Inclusionism; Neoliberalism for God's Sake: Sectarian Justifications for Secular Policy Transformation in the United States; The Uses of Religion in Public Institutions: The Case of Prisons; Index of Names
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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