The post-secular city: the new secularization debate
“The Post-Secular City” is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. “The Post-Secular City” examines the alleged shift from a “secular” to a “post-secular” dispensation from the perspective of the ongoing de-construction of the secularization “theore...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Leiden Boston Singapore Paderborn Vienna
Brill, Schöningh
[2022]
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| In: |
Journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society (2)
Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society Supplementa
2 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology and World Christianity
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: The Post-Secular City : The New Secularization Debate. - Paderborn : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill Deutschland, 2022. - 9783506795267 |
| Summary: | “The Post-Secular City” is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. “The Post-Secular City” examines the alleged shift from a “secular” to a “post-secular” dispensation from the perspective of the ongoing de-construction of the secularization “theorem” (as Hans Blumenberg called it). Accordingly, the new secularization debate is described as being polarized between the “de-constructors” and the “maintainers” of the standard thesis of secularization. This is the assumption underlying an ambitious effort to map the field, which consists of a long introduction where “secularization” is analyzed as a deeply problematic concept-of-process and of eight chapters in which several protagonists of the recent debate are discussed as crucial junctions of a multidisciplinary conversation |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 365779526X |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30965/9783657795260 |