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Faith as an option : possible futures for Christianity /

Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Joas, Hans, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Colección:Cultural memory in the present.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : secularization and intellectual honesty
  • Does modernization lead to secularization?
  • Does secularization lead to moral decline?
  • Waves of secularization
  • Modernization as culturally protestant metanarrative
  • The age of contingency
  • Increased options as a danger?
  • Religious diversity and the pluralist society
  • Religion and violence
  • The future of Christianity
  • Intellectual challenges for contemporary Christianity
  • Conclusion : is Christianity leaving Europe behind?