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Religion and Power : No Logos without Mythos.

In this book David Martin argues, against Juergen Habermas, that religion and politics share a common mythic basis and that it is misleading to contrast the rationality of politics with the irrationality of religion. In contrast to Richard Dawkins (and New Atheists generally), Martin argues that the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martin, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Secularisation, Secularism and the Post-Secular: The Power Dimension; PART 1: Religion, War and Violence; 2 The Problematic; 3 The Rhetorical Issue of Sentences about Religion and Violence; 4 Modes of Truth and Rival Narratives; 5 The Rival Narratives; PART II: Religion and Nationalism, Religion and Politics; 6 The Political Future of Religion; 7 Nationalism and Religion: Collective Identity and Choice; 8 Charisma and Founding Fatherhood; 9 Religion and Politics; 10 Religion, Politics and Secularisation; 11 No Logos without Mythos.
  • PART III: Religion, Power and Emplacement12 The Historical Ecology of European and North American Religion; 13 Inscribing the General Theory of Secularisation and Its Basic Patterns; 14 England and London; 15 Moscow and Eurasia; Index.