[Rezension von: Gifford, Paul, 1944-, The plight of Western religion]
The subtitle of the book describes what “the plight of western religion” is, namely, that across the West the other-worldly no longer plays the role it once did. There was a time, Gifford argues, when a robust religion and life, in general, were pervaded by references to the supernatural; whereas no...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2021]
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 137-139 |
| Review of: | The plight of Western religion (London : Hurst & Company, 2019) (Benavides, Gustavo)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBQ Eschatology |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | The subtitle of the book describes what “the plight of western religion” is, namely, that across the West the other-worldly no longer plays the role it once did. There was a time, Gifford argues, when a robust religion and life, in general, were pervaded by references to the supernatural; whereas now, with the supernatural eclipsed and its institutions being indistinguishable from NGOs, “Christianity in the West, understood substantively, has been effectively evacuated. It is only by slipping from a substantive to a functional understanding of religion that this reality can be obscured” (p. 95). To make his case, Gifford contrasts substantive... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa086 |