The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology. Edited by Peter Scott and William T. Cavanaugh. Pp. x + 566. (Blackwell Companions to Religion.) Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. isbn 0 631 22342. £85/124.95
Today we are confronted with the return of religion. Sociologists speak even about a new productivity of religion. This renaissance implies different forms of private and public religions. It is mainly a reaction of living in a risk society and the shocking experience of the mass-murdering terrorism...
| Published in: | The journal of theological studies |
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2005
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| Summary: | Today we are confronted with the return of religion. Sociologists speak even about a new productivity of religion. This renaissance implies different forms of private and public religions. It is mainly a reaction of living in a risk society and the shocking experience of the mass-murdering terrorism of 11 September 2001. Both call our rationality into question, both confuse the basics of our thoughts, both confront us in a radical way with an incalculability which introduces uncertainty and ambivalence to the heart of contemporary institutions, practices, and discourses. Societies, especially the Western societies, are forced to develop new politics of difference and identity. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli249 |