Religion : beyond a concept /
What do we talk about when we talk about ?religion?? Is it an array of empirical facts about historical human civilizations? Or is religion what is in essence unpredictable?perhaps the very emergence of the new? In what ways are the legacies of religion?its powers, words, things, and gestures?reconf...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Future of the religious past.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Why still "religion"? / Hent de Vries
- pt. I. "What is religion?" Public religions revisited / José Casanova
- Provincializing God? : provocations from an anthropology of religion / Michael Lambek
- Translating gods : religion as a factor of cultural (un)translatability / Jan Assmann
- The Christian invention of Judaism : the Theodosian empire and the rabbinic refusal of religion / Daniel Boyarin
- The future of the religious past / Charles Taylor
- Religion as memory : reference to tradition and the constitution of a heritage of belief in modern societies / Danièle Hervieu-Léger
- If this be magic ... : excursions into contemporary Hindu lives / Veena Das
- pt. II. Religion and philosophy. Metaphysics and phenomenology : a relief for theology / Jean-Luc Marion
- What no one else can do in my place : a conversation with Emmanuel Levinas / Emmanuel Levinas and France Guwy
- Abraham, the other / Jacques Derrida.
- From French Algeria to Jerusalem : an itinerary / Henri Atlan
- Nature as religious force in Eriugena and Emerson / Willemien Otten
- Inheriting the wound : religion and philosophy in Stanley Cavell / Asja Szafraniec
- A deconstruction of monotheism / Jean-Luc Nancy
- After theism / H.J. Adriaanse
- pt. III. Methods of instruction and comparison. Teaching religious facts in secular schools / Régis Debray
- Secularization : notes toward a genealogy / Jan Bremmer
- An alternative view of Christianity : a Troeltschean perspective / Arie L. Molendijk
- As close as a scholar can get : exploring a one-field approach to the study of religion / André Droogers
- "Religion" in public debates : who defines, for what purposes? / Willem B. Drees
- The field of religion and ecology : addressing the environmental crisis and challenging faiths / Tony Watling
- pt. IV. Emerging contexts. The politics of love and its enemies / David Nirenberg.
- Religious indifference : on the nature of medieval Christianity / M.B. Pranger
- Christ at large : iconography and territoriality in postwar Ambon / Patricia Spyer
- Renewing time : charismatic renewal in a conservative Reformed church / Peter Versteeg.
- pt. V. Religion, politics, and law. Neutralizing religion; or, what is the opposite of "faith-base"? / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
- Reflections on blasphemy and secular criticism / Talal Asad
- Is liberalism a religion? / Michael Warner
- Social democracy and religion : the reverse breakthrough / Job Cohen
- Toward a politics of singularity : protection and projection / Samuel Weber
- pt. VI. Materiality, mediatization, experience. Troubles with materiality : the ghost of fetishism in the nineteenth century / Tomoko Masuzawa
- Salvation by electricity / Jeremy Stolow
- Cybergnosis : technology, religion, and the secular / Stef Aupers, Dick Houtman, and Peter Pels
- Religious sensations : why media, aesthetics, and power matter in the study of contemporary religion / Birgit Meyer
- Can television mediate religious experience? : the theology of Joan of Arcadia / Angela Zito
- A "sense of possibility" : Robert Musil, Meister Eckart, and the "culture of film" / Niklaus Largier
- Intimate exteriorities : inventing religion through music / Sander Van Maas
- Death in the image : the post-religious life of Christian images / Alena Alexandrova
- pt. VII. Spiritual exercises, selves, and beyonds. Spirituality in modern society / Peter van der Veer
- The sacralization of the self : relocating the sacred on the ruins of tradition / Stef Aupers and Dick Houtman
- Horizontal transcendence : Irigaray's religion after ontotheology / Annemie Halsema
- Religion and the time of creation : placing "the human" in techno-scientific and theological context / Thomas A. Carlson.