Exploring the Postsecular: The Religious, The Political and The Urban
This book examines contemporary relations between religion, politics and urban societies from a theoretical perspective. Special attention is paid to those authors (e.g. Habermas, Taylor) who analyze new global constellations in terms of a shift from the secular to the postsecular.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | International Studies in Religion and Society Ser.
v.13 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion and sociology
B Cities and towns Religious aspects B Electronic books B Cities and towns ; Religious aspects |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9789004185449 |
| Summary: | This book examines contemporary relations between religion, politics and urban societies from a theoretical perspective. Special attention is paid to those authors (e.g. Habermas, Taylor) who analyze new global constellations in terms of a shift from the secular to the postsecular. Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Part One Exploring the Field: Introductory Essays -- Transcending the Particular in Postsecular Cities -- Cutting through the Postsecular City: A Spatial Interrogation -- Part Two Conceptualizing the Postsecular -- Spaces of Postsecularism -- Contrasting Modernities: 'Postsecular' Europe and Enspirited Latin America -- How Ethnocentric is the Concept of the Postsecular? -- The Transformation of Religious Culture within Modern Societies: From Secularization to Postsecularism -- Voicing the Self in Postsecular Society: A Psychological Perspective on Meaning-Making and Collective Identities -- 'God made the Country, and Man Made the Town': Some Observations on the Place of Religion in the Western (Post)Secular City -- Making Sense of Sacred Space in the City? -- Inscribing the General Theory of Secularization and its Basic Patterns in the Architectural Space/Time of the City: From Presecular to Postsecular? -- Religion and the Salvation of Urban Politics: Beyond Cooption, Competition and Commodification -- Theo-Ethics and Radical Faith-Based Praxis in the Postsecular City -- The End of the Secular City Dream: The Case of Ankara -- Postsecularism or Late Secularism? Faith Creating Place in the US -- Virtual Re-Evangelization: Brazilian Churches, Media and the Postsecular City -- Beyond the Secular? Public Reason and the Search for a Concept of Postsecular Legitimacy -- Restraints on Religious Reasoning in the Political Square? -- Public Reason and Inclusionism as Pseudo-Inclusionism -- Neoliberalism for God's Sake: Sectarian Justifications for Secular Policy Transformation in the United States -- The Uses of Religion in Public Institutions: The Case of Prisons -- Index of Names. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-19371-0 90-04-18544-5 978-90-04-18544-9 |
