RT Book
T1 Faith as an option: possible futures for Christianity
T2 Cultural memory in the present
A2 Joas, Hans 1948-
LA English
PP Stanford, California
PB Stanford University Press
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1654051470
AB 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?
AB Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith.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's spiritual and moral well-being. But does modernization lead to secularization? Does secularization lead to moral decay? Sociologist Hans Joas argues that these two supposed certainties have kept scholars from serious contemporary debate and that people must put these old arguments aside in order for d
NO "Originally published in German in 2012 under the title Glaube als Option. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
CN BL2747
SN 978-0-8047-9278-3
SN 0-8047-9278-X
K1 Church History : 21st century
K1 Secularism
K1 Faith
K1 RELIGION ; Christian Church ; History
K1 RELIGION ; Christianity ; History
K1 Church History
K1 Electronic books