The Post Secular City

Author : Paolo Costa
Publisher : Brill U Schoningh
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3506795260

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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.

Author : Justin Beaumont,Christopher Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441180643

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Postsecular Cities by Justin Beaumont,Christopher Baker Pdf

This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the public and cultural significance of religion. In this century, by contrast, religion, faith communities and spiritual values have returned to the centre of public life, especially public policy, governance, and social identity. Rapidly diversifying urban locations are the best places to witness the emergence of new spaces in which religions and spiritual traditions are creating both new alliances but also bifurcations with secular sectors. Postsecular Cities examines how the built environment reflects these trends. Recognizing that the 'turn to the postsecular' is a contested and multifaceted trend, the authors offer a vigorous, open but structured dialogue between theory and practice, but even more excitingly, between the disciplines of human geography and theology. Both disciplines reflect on this powerful but enigmatic force shaping our urban humanity. This unique volume offers the first insight into these interdisciplinary and challenging debates.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004193710

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Exploring the Postsecular by Anonim Pdf

This book examines contemporary relations between religion, politics and urban societies from a theoretical perspective. Special attention is paid to those authors (e.g. Habermas, Taylor) who analyze new global constellations in terms of a shift from the secular to the postsecular.

Author : Philip Gorski,David Kyuman Kim,John Torpey,Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814738726

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The Post-secular in Question by Philip Gorski,David Kyuman Kim,John Torpey,Jonathan VanAntwerpen Pdf

"This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today's world. Foregrounding the most urgent and compelling questions raised by the place of religion in the social sciences, past and present, The Post-Secular in Question restores religion to a more central place in social scientific thinking about the world, helping to move scholarship 'beyond unbelief.'"--book jacket.

Author : Harvey Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Church and the world
ISBN : OCLC:1336875428

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The Secular City by Harvey Cox Pdf

Author : Harvey Cox
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400848850

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The Secular City by Harvey Cox Pdf

Since its initial publication in 1965, The Secular City has been hailed as a classic for its nuanced exploration of the relationships among the rise of urban civilization, the decline of hierarchical, institutional religion, and the place of the secular within society. Now, half a century later, this international best seller remains as relevant as when it first appeared. The book's arguments--that secularity has a positive effect on institutions, that the city can be a space where people of all faiths fulfill their potential, and that God is present in both the secular and formal religious realms--still resonate with readers of all backgrounds. For this brand-new edition, Harvey Cox provides a substantial and updated introduction. He reflects on the book's initial stunning success in an age of political and religious upheaval and makes the case for its enduring relevance at a time when the debates that The Secular City helped ignite have caught fire once again.

Author : Harvey Gallagher Cox
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Church and the world
ISBN : UOM:39015002605833

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The Secular City by Harvey Gallagher Cox Pdf

Since its initial publication in 1965, The Secular City has been hailed as a classic for its nuanced exploration of the relationships among the rise of urban civilization, the decline of hierarchical, institutional religion, and the place of the secular within society. Now, half a century later, this international best seller remains as relevant as when it first appeared. The book's arguments--that secularity has a positive effect on institutions, that the city can be a space where people of all faiths fulfill their potential, and that God is present in both the secular and formal religious realms--still resonate with readers of all backgrounds.

Author : Gustaaf Geeraerts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351497619

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Post-Secular Society by Gustaaf Geeraerts Pdf

Post-Secular Society argues for several characteristics of the secular: the experience of living in a secular age and the experience of living without religion as a normal condition. Religion in the West is often seen as marked by both innovation and disarray. In spite of differing approaches and perspectives of secularization, rational choice and de-secularization, many scholars agree that the West is experiencing a general "resurgence" of religion across most Western societies. Post-Secular Society discusses the changes in religion related to globalization and New Age forms of popular religion. The contributors review religion that is rooted in the globalized political economy and the relationship of post-secularism to popular consumer culture. Also reviewed is innovative discourse as a religious belief system, theories of the post-secular, religious, and spiritual well-being, and healing practices in Finland and environmentalism. This paperback edition includes a new preface by Peter Nynas.

Author : Luca Mavelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136448430

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Europe's Encounter with Islam by Luca Mavelli Pdf

In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been increasingly perceived as ‘problematic’. Events such as the French ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the so-called ‘Danish cartoons’, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg have hit the front pages of newspapers the world over, and prompted a number of scholarly debates on Muslims’ capacity to comply with the seemingly neutral and pluralistic rules of European secularity. Luca Mavelli argues that this perspective has prevented an in-depth reflection on the limits of Europe’s secular tradition and its role in Europe’s conflictual encounter with Islam. Through an original reading of Michel Foucault’s spiritual notion of knowledge and an engagement with key thinkers, from Thomas Aquinas to Jurgën Habermas, Mavelli articulates a contending genealogy of European secularity. While not denying the latter’s achievements in terms of pluralism and autonomy, he suggests that Europe’s secular tradition has also contributed to forms of isolation, which translate into Europe’s incapacity to perceive its encounter with Islam as an opportunity rather than a threat. Drawing on this theoretical perspective, Mavelli offers a contending account of some of the most important recent controversies surrounding Islam in Europe and investigates the ‘postsecular’ as a normative model to engage with the tensions at the heart of European secularity. Finally, he advances the possibility of a Europe willing to reconsider its established secular narratives which may identify in the encounter with Islam an opportunity to flourish and cultivate its democratic qualities and postnational commitments. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of religion and international relations, social and political theory, and Islam in Europe.

Author : Dustin Byrd
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004328556

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Islam in a Post-Secular Society by Dustin Byrd Pdf

Islam in the Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith critically examines the unique challenges facing Muslims in Europe and North America. From the philosophical perspective of the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory, this book attempts not only to diagnose the current problems stemming from a marginalization of Islam in the secular West, but also to offer a proposal for a Habermasian discourse between the religious and the secular. By highlighting historical examples of Islamic and western rapprochement, and rejecting the ‘clash of civilization’ thesis, the author attempts to find a ‘common language’ between the religious and the secular, which can serve as a vehicle for a future reconciliation.

Author : Beaumont, Justin,Cloke, Paul
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847428356

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Faith-based organisations and exclusion in European cities by Beaumont, Justin,Cloke, Paul Pdf

At a time of heightened neoliberal globalisation and crisis, welfare state retrenchment and desecularisation of society, amid uniquely European controversies over immigration, integration and religious-based radicalism, this timely book explores the role played by faith-based organisations (FBOs), which are growing in importance in the provision of social services in the European context. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the contributions to the volume present original research examples and a pan-European perspective to assess the role of FBOs in combating poverty and various expressions of exclusion and social distress in cities across Europe. This significant and highly topical volume should become a vital reference source for the burgeoning number of studies that are likely follow and will make essential reading for students and academics in social policy, sociology, geography, politics, urban studies and theology/ religious studies.

Author : Helmuth Berking,Silke Steets,Jochen Schwenk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350037694

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Religious Pluralism and the City by Helmuth Berking,Silke Steets,Jochen Schwenk Pdf

Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion and the city are intertwined. It is the first book to analyze the explanatory value of a number of typologies already in use around this topic – from "holy city" to "secular city", from "fundamentalist" to "postsecular city". By intertwining the city and religion, urban theory and theories of religion, this is the first book to provide an international and interdisciplinary analysis of post-secular urbanism. The book argues that, given the rise of religiously inspired violence and the increasing significance of charismatic Christianity, Islam and other spiritual traditions, the master narrative that modern societies are secular societies has lost its empirical plausibility. Instead, we are seeing the pluralization of religion, the co-existence of different religious worldviews, and the simultaneity of secular and religious institutions that shape everyday life. These particular constellations of "religious pluralism" are, above all, played out in cities. Including contributions from Peter L. Berger and Nezar Alsayyad, this book conceptually and empirically revokes the dissolution between city and religion to unveil its intimate relationship, and offers an alternative view on the quotidian state of the global urban condition.

Author : Feisal Mohamed
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804780735

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Milton and the Post-Secular Present by Feisal Mohamed Pdf

Our post-secular present, argues Feisal Mohamed, has much to learn from our pre-secular past. Through a consideration of poet and polemicist John Milton, this book explores current post-secularity, an emerging category that it seeks to clarify and critique. It examines ethical and political engagement grounded in belief, with particular reference to the thought of Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, and Gayatri C. Spivak. Taken to an extreme, such engagement produces the cult of the suicide bomber. But the suicide bomber has also served as a convenient bogey for those wishing to distract us from the violence in Western and Christian traditions and for those who would dismiss too easily the vigorous iconoclasm that belief can produce. More than any other poet, Milton alerts us to both anti-humane and liberationist aspects of belief and shows us relevant dynamics of language by which such commitment finds expression.

Author : Alana Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317065685

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Rescripting Religion in the City by Alana Harris Pdf

Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.

Author : Peter Nynäs,Mika Lassander,Terhi Utriainen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412846103

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Post-Secular Society by Peter Nynäs,Mika Lassander,Terhi Utriainen Pdf

Are we still secular? If not, what can one possibly mean by “post-secular”? The answers depend on what one considers secular as well as the people, societies, and institutions that one considers. Post-Secular Society argues for the experience of living in a secular world and a secular age and the experience of living without religion as a normal condition. Religion in the Western world is often described as being marked to some degree by both innovation and disarray. The past couple of decades have seen the emergence of reformulated versions of theories of secularization, variants of rational choice and supply-side models of religion, and new theoretical perspectives on de-secularization of religion. In spite of these different approaches and perspectives, a majority of scholars agree that the West is experiencing a general “resurgence” of religion and that the public visibility of religious actors and discourses is on the rise across most Western societies. Post-Secular Society discusses the changes in religion related to globalization, as well as New Age and other forms of popular religion. The contributors review religion that is rooted in the globalized political economy, and the relationship of post-secularism to popular and consumer culture. They also detail current innovative discourse as a religious belief system; discuss theories of the post-secular, religious, and spiritual well-being; and consider healing practices in Finland and environmentalism.