Islam in a post-secular society: religion, secularity, and the antagonism of recalcitrant faith
1. Professing Islam in a Post-Secular Society -- Introduction -- On the Contemporary Possibility of Witnessing and Professing -- The Post-Secular Society -- What Does It Mean to Profess Islam? -- Witnessing in Islam: On the Tradition of Radical Praxis -- New Religion as Return of the Old -- Witnessi...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
Brill
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in critical social sciences
volume 98 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BJ Islam |
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Islam and secularism
B Western countries B SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture B Islamic Philosophy B Critical Theory B Frankfurt school of sociology B Religion B Islam and secularism (Western countries) B Electronic books B Western countries Religion B Secularism B Secularism (Western countries) |
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| Summary: | 1. Professing Islam in a Post-Secular Society -- Introduction -- On the Contemporary Possibility of Witnessing and Professing -- The Post-Secular Society -- What Does It Mean to Profess Islam? -- Witnessing in Islam: On the Tradition of Radical Praxis -- New Religion as Return of the Old -- Witnessing in the Time of War -- "Perfected Religion": A Problematic Conception -- Fear of Philosophical Blasphemy -- 2. Adversity in Post-Secular Europe -- The Dialectics of Martyrdom: Death as Witnessing and Professing -- Witnessing against Islam: The Case of Theo van Gogh -- Je ne suis pas Charlie et je ne suis pas avec les terroristes -- 3. Finding a Common Language -- 13th Century Witnessing: Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik al-Kamil -- Different Francis, Same Mission: Witnessing with and for Muslims -- Translation Proviso: Can We Witness and Confess in the Same Language? -- Cognitive-Instrumental Reason, Moral-Practical Reason and Aesthetic-Expressive Reason in Religion -- Aesthetic-Expressive Reason in Religion -- Translation Dangers -- Secular Entrenchment -- 4. Witnessing and Professing in Prophetic and Positive Religions -- Affirmation and Negativity: Marx -- Affirmation and Negativity: Lenin -- Affirmation and Negativity: Horkheimer and Adorno -- Confronting the Post-Secular Condition -- Prophetic and Priestly Religion -- 5. After Auschwitz: Islam in Europe -- Violence and the Post-Secular -- Violence and the State -- Freud's Unbehagen mit Marx -- Witnessing and Professing in a Nietzschian Age of Nihilism -- Witnessing and Professing after Auschwitz: Theodor Adorno's Poetics -- History and Metaphysics after Auschwitz -- Ethics after Auschwitz -- Witnessing the Messianic: The Case of the Martyr Walter Benjamin -- The Place for Theology -- Messiah, Messianic and the Historian -- Benjamin's Critique of Progress: Witnessing History as Barbarity 1. Professing Islam in a Post-Secular Society -- Introduction -- On the Contemporary Possibility of Witnessing and Professing -- The Post-Secular Society -- What Does It Mean to Profess Islam? -- Witnessing in Islam: On the Tradition of Radical Praxis -- New Religion as Return of the Old -- Witnessing in the Time of War -- "Perfected Religion": A Problematic Conception -- Fear of Philosophical Blasphemy -- 2. Adversity in Post-Secular Europe -- The Dialectics of Martyrdom: Death as Witnessing and Professing -- Witnessing against Islam: The Case of Theo van Gogh -- Je ne suis pas Charlie et je ne suis pas avec les terroristes -- 3. Finding a Common Language -- 13th Century Witnessing: Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik al-Kamil -- Different Francis, Same Mission: Witnessing with and for Muslims -- Translation Proviso: Can We Witness and Confess in the Same Language? -- Cognitive-Instrumental Reason, Moral-Practical Reason and Aesthetic-Expressive Reason in Religion -- Aesthetic-Expressive Reason in Religion -- Translation Dangers -- Secular Entrenchment -- 4. Witnessing and Professing in Prophetic and Positive Religions -- Affirmation and Negativity: Marx -- Affirmation and Negativity: Lenin -- Affirmation and Negativity: Horkheimer and Adorno -- Confronting the Post-Secular Condition -- Prophetic and Priestly Religion -- 5. After Auschwitz: Islam in Europe -- Violence and the Post-Secular -- Violence and the State -- Freud's Unbehagen mit Marx -- Witnessing and Professing in a Nietzschian Age of Nihilism -- Witnessing and Professing after Auschwitz: Theodor Adorno's Poetics -- History and Metaphysics after Auschwitz -- Ethics after Auschwitz -- Witnessing the Messianic: The Case of the Martyr Walter Benjamin -- The Place for Theology -- Messiah, Messianic and the Historian -- Benjamin's Critique of Progress: Witnessing History as Barbarity 6. Post-Secularity and Its Discontents: The Barbaric Revolt against Barbarism -- Absolutivity -- Authoritarian Absolutes, Heteronomy, and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria -- Humanistic Absolutes -- Isis: Same Problem, Different Manifestation -- American and Euro-Jihadis -- Hegel, War and Individualism -- Isis and Western Alienation -- Internationalism -- Seeking Heaven at the Barrel of a Gun -- Material Poverty or Poverty of Being? -- Genealogy of Terror -- Symbolic Message -- Reign of Terror: Bourgeois and Muslim -- The Perverse Dialectic of Apology -- Hypocritical Apologetics and the Recovery of the Prophetic -- 7. The Globalized Post-Secular Society and the Future of Islam -- From the West to the Rest -- Theocracy as a Response to the Globalized Post-Secular Society -- Post-Secular Solidarity: A Proposal for an Intra-religious Constitutionalism -- Ecumenism and Inter-Religious Constitution Building: Modern Slavery |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004328556 |