Critical Theory Of Religion

Author : Michael R. Ott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015053519677

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Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory of Religion by Michael R. Ott Pdf

Br> Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory of Religion : The Meaning of Religion in the Struggle for Human Emancipation by Ott, Michael R. Terms of use Over the past thirty years much has been written about the critical theory of society that was produced by a small group of left-wing Hegelians in the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and in the United States. This book seeks to make a contribution to the continued development of the critical theory of society and religion as it offers a corrective to the one-sided, positivistic development of the modern social sciences as well as to the increasing social irrelevancy of the contemporary Christian church. Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory of Religion is a content analysis of the critical theory of religion of Max Horkheimer, which was developed throughout almost all of his writings and later interviews from 1926 to 1973, the year of his death. Descriptive content provided by Syndetics"! a Bowker service.

Author : Rudolf J. Siebert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001012488

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The Critical Theory of Religion, the Frankfurt School by Rudolf J. Siebert Pdf

Author : Marsha Hewitt
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 145141403X

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Critical Theory of Religion by Marsha Hewitt Pdf

This volume brings together, in an exciting and original way, the major themes of critical social theory and feminist theology. Marsha Aileen Hewitt shows how critical themes emerge in the works of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Mary Daly, and Rosemary Radford Ruether, and how their work provides a starting point for a feminist critical theory of religion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047410188

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Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion by Anonim Pdf

This collection of essays brings together scholars who use frameworks provided by Marx and Critical Theory in analyzing religion. Its goal is to establish a critical theory of religion within sociology of religion as an alternative to rational choice.

Author : Jenny L. Small
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000067309

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Critical Religious Pluralism in Higher Education by Jenny L. Small Pdf

This text presents a new critical theory addressing religious diversity, Christian religious privilege, and Christian hegemony in the United States. It meets a growing and urgent need in our society—the need to bring together religiously diverse ways of thinking and being in the world, and eventually to transform our society through intentional pluralism. The primary goal of Critical Religious Pluralism Theory (CRPT) is to acknowledge the central roles of religious privilege, oppression, hegemony, and marginalization in maintaining inequality between Christians and non-Christians (including the nonreligious) in the United States. Following analysis of current literature on religious, secular, and spiritual identities within higher education, and in-depth discussion of critical theories on other identity elements, the text presents seven tenets of CRPT alongside seven practical guidelines for utilizing the theory to combat the very inequalities it exposes. For the first time, a critical theory will address directly the social impacts of religious diversity and its inherent benefits and complications in the United States. Critical Religious Pluralism in Higher Education will appeal to scholars, researchers, and graduate students in higher education, as well as critical theorists from other disciplines.

Author : Rudolf J. Siebert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110859157

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The Critical Theory of Religion. The Frankfurt School by Rudolf J. Siebert Pdf

Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Author : Richard King
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231518246

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Religion, Theory, Critique by Richard King Pdf

Religion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporary and classical theories as well as non-Western cultural contexts. Unlike other collections, this anthology emphasizes the dynamic relationship between "religion" as an object of study and different methodological approaches and openly addresses the question of the manifold ways in which "religion," "secular," and "culture" are imagined within different disciplinary horizons. This volume is the first textbook which seeks to engage discussion of classical approaches with contemporary cultural and critical theories. Contributors write on the influence of the natural sciences in the study of religion; the role of European Christianity in modeling theories of religion; religious experience and the interface with cognitive science; the structure and function of religious language; the social-scientific study of religion; ritual in religion; the phenomenology of religion; critical theory and religion; embodiment and religion; the impact of colonialism and modernity; theorizing religion in terms of race and ethnicity; links among religion, nationalism, and globalization; the interplay of gender, sex, and religion; and religion and the environment. Each chapter introduces the topic, identifies key theorists and issues, and respects the pluralistic nature of the scholarship in the field. Altogether, this collection scrutinizes the explicit and implicit assumptions theorists make about religion as an object of analysis.

Author : D. Phillips,T. Tessin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 033380175X

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Philosophy of Religion in the Twenty-First Century by D. Phillips,T. Tessin Pdf

This book offers the rare opportunity to assess, within a single volume, the leading schools of thought in contemporary philosophy of religion. Their exponents seek to meet objections made to their point of view and to relate it to the other schools represented. Further discussions between adherents of the different schools make it an ideal text for assessing the deep proximities and divisions which characterize contemporary philosophy of religion. The schools of thought represented are: Philosophical Theism, Reformed Epistemology, Wittgensteinianism, Postmodernism, Critical Theory and Process Thought.

Author : Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415966973

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The Frankfurt School on Religion by Eduardo Mendieta Pdf

Eduardo Medieta has brought together a selection of readings and essays which will make available the contribution of the thinkers of the Frankfurt School on the subject of religion.

Author : Michael Stausberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134041480

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Contemporary Theories of Religion by Michael Stausberg Pdf

Interest in theories of religion has never been greater. Scholars debate single theoretical approaches in different scholarly journals, while the ‘new atheists’ such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett criticize the whole idea of religion. For everyone eager to understand the current state of the field, Contemporary Theories of Religion surveys the neglected landscape in its totality. Michael Stausberg brings together leading scholars of the field to review and discuss seventeen contemporary theories of religion. As well as scholars of religion, it features anthropologists, archaeologists, classicists, evolutionary biologists, philosophers and sociologists. Each chapter provides students with background information on the theoretician, a presentation of the theory’s basic principles, an analysis of basic assumptions, and a review of previous critiques. Concluding with a section entitled 'Back and Forth', Stausberg compares the different theories and points to further avenues of discussion for the future.

Author : Peter E. Gordon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300255591

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Migrants in the Profane by Peter E. Gordon Pdf

A beautifully written exploration of religion’s role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theory Migrants in the Profane takes its title from an intriguing remark by Theodor W. Adorno, in which he summarized the meaning of Walter Benjamin’s image of a celebrated mechanical chess-playing Turk and its hidden religious animus: “Nothing of theological content will persist without being transformed; every content will have to put itself to the test of migrating in the realm of the secular, the profane.” In this masterful book, Peter Gordon reflects on Adorno’s statement and asks an urgent question: Can religion offer any normative resources for modern political life, or does the appeal to religious concepts stand in conflict with the idea of modern politics as a domain free from religion’s influence? In answering this question, he explores the work of three of the Frankfurt School’s most esteemed thinkers: Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor W. Adorno. His illuminating analysis offers a highly original account of the intertwined histories of religion and secular modernity.

Author : Nicole Goulet,Nixon Cleophat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1516549694

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Critical Approaches to Religion: Race, Class, Sexuality, and Gender by Nicole Goulet,Nixon Cleophat Pdf

Critical Approaches to Religion: Race, Class, Sexuality, and Gender provides students with carefully selected readings that examine diverse cultural religious traditions, as well as the intersection of academic religious studies and the practice of religion throughout the world. The anthology explores both mainstream religious traditions and those that are marginalized, applying theories of feminism, sexuality, race, class, and gender across the board to offer readers a broad and comprehensive understanding of global religion. Through selections authored by prolific writers in the field, coupled with insights from the editors for additional context, students learn about critical approaches to religion, the various methods of studying religion, the concept of belief, the connection of myth to ritual, the idea of mysticism, how gender and sexuality factor into religious experiences, and more. Cross-disciplinary in nature, Critical Approaches to Religion is designed to serve as a supplementary text for foundational courses in religion, world religion, anthropology, sociology, and history. Nicole Goulet received her Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, focusing her work on feminist and postcolonial approaches to colonial Hinduism. She is an assistant professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Religious Studies. Nixon Cleophat earned his B.A. in English and educational studies from Salem State University, his M.Div. in biblical studies and political theology from Harvard Divinity School, and his Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary. He is an assistant professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Author : Bryan Wagoner
Publisher : Mercer Tillich
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0881466344

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Prophetic Interruptions by Bryan Wagoner Pdf

Prophetic Interruptions initially draws numerous, yet previously unknown, connections between Paul Tillich, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer during their shared years in Frankfurt and New York, focusing particularly on the years 1929-1944. While Critical Theory was being formulated, Tillich, the teacher and colleague of Adorno and Horkheimer, respectively, was working on his own religious social(ist) theory. Moving beyond this historical background, Wagoner shows how these personal connections evolved and were mutually engaging. Instead of pursuing discernible mutual influence among Tillich, Adorno, and Horkheimer, the book instead demonstrates that their ideas were forged in the crucible of friendship and common purpose, toward the common end of emancipation. The collective 'prophetic interruptions' among the three thinkers have a common goal of naming and remediating injustices, and interrupting social forms that inhibit individual and collective agency. To that end, parallels are traced along four lines: critical rationality, theories of human nature (particularly vis-�-vis Nazism), metaphysics, and religion. These striking commonalities (coupled with potentially insurmountable differences, such as ontology) reveal historical connections between progressive religious thought and allegedly secular critical theory. The book suggests room for further conversation between progressive religion and critical theory rooted in Tillich's early 'religious socialism,' read here as a type of critical social theory, anticipating that of Adorno and Horkheimer. The appendix includes the first translation of an important letter from Adorno to Tillich, written in 1944.

Author : Michael R. Ott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion and sociology
ISBN : OCLC:40841214

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Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory of Religion by Michael R. Ott Pdf

Author : Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Frankfurt school of sociology
ISBN : 0415966965

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The Frankfurt School on Religion by Eduardo Mendieta Pdf

Eduardo Medieta has brought together a selection of readings and essays which will make available the contribution of the thinkers of the Frankfurt School on the subject of religion.