Religion and politics : cultural perspectives / edited by Bernhard Giesen and Daniel Suber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giesen, Bernhard, 1948-

Šuber, Daniel.

Series:

International studies in religion and society ; 3.

International studies in religion and society, 1573-4293 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics--Congresses.

Religion and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together essays by such eminent scholars like Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Mary Douglas, Thomas Luckmann, Reinhart Koselleck, and Jan Assmann on the topic of politics and religion. The relationship between religious and cultural visions on the one hand and socio-political structures on the other becomes elaborated from a wide historical and culturalist perspective. These accounts are flanked by contributions of a younger generation of scholars that focus on new aspects of secularisation. The book aims at reviving the interdisciplinary discourse on a matter which seems to be crucial to the question of future solidarity between different cultures and religions in a globalising world.

Contents:

Bernhard Giesen and Daniel Šuber , Politics and Religion: An Introduction

Part A - Conceptual Perspectives

Shmuel N. Eisenstadt The Transformations of the Religious Dimension in the Constitution of Contemporary Modernities

Jan Assmann , Axial' Breakthroughs and Semantic ,Relocations' in Ancient Egypt and Israel

Mary Douglas , Politics and Religion from an Anthropological Point of View. An Interview with Mary Douglas

Thomas Luckmann , Religion and Morality in Modern Europe Compared to the Religious Situation in the United States of America

Bernhard Giesen , Tales of Transcendence. Imagining the Sacred in Politics

Part B - Religious Origins of Modernity

Jan Assmann Monotheism and Its Political Consequences

Shmuel N. Eisenstadt The Religious Origins of Modern Radical Movements

Jan Assmann , Political Theology. Religion as Legitimizing Fiction in Antique and Early Modern Critique

Part C - Aspects of Secularization

Reinhart Koselleck , Temporal Foreshortening and Acceleration: A Study on Secularization

Rudolf Schlög Secularization: German Catholicism on the Eve of Modernity

Daniel Šuber , Religion, Philosophy and Social Science. The Rise of Modern Social Science from the point of view of Conceptual History

Matthias Koenig , Politics and Religion in European Nation-States. Institutional Varieties and Contemporary Transformations.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-86837-6

9786610868377

1-4294-5349-4

90-474-0785-7

1-4337-0747-0

OCLC:

171562081

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047407850 DOI