Prayer in Cities and Secular Society
The city is the place where cohabitation is made problematic by the assumption that diversity is a potential factor of disharmony and conflict. The secular ethos is impatient with diversity, bypasses religion, replaces moral motivation with procedural modes of coexistence and a rights culture. Secul...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Concilium
Year: 2024, Issue: 4, Pages: 41-50 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
City
/ Secularization
/ Spirituality
/ Prayer
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CH Christianity and Society |
| Further subjects: | B
Theological Education
B Spiritual Life |
| Summary: | The city is the place where cohabitation is made problematic by the assumption that diversity is a potential factor of disharmony and conflict. The secular ethos is impatient with diversity, bypasses religion, replaces moral motivation with procedural modes of coexistence and a rights culture. Secularity though is just an iteration of a spiritual pathology structurally connected to the constitution of the city even in pre-Modern times and which takes the form of the pursuit of linguistic uniformity. In relation to the city, prayer can be described as any practice that fulfils the critical function of disrupting the totalitarian pretensions of linguistic uniformity and of restoring an authentic responsive and responsible approach to reality, sociality, and God. In the end, inescapable exposure to diversity is the feature of the city that keeps its inhabitants spiritually off-balance and restless. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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