The new visibility of religion : studies in religion and cultural hermeneutics / editors, Michael Hoelzl, Graham Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoelzl, Michael, editor.

Ward, Graham, 1955- editor.

Series:

Continuum resources in religion and political culture.

Continuum resources in religion and political culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics.

Religion and sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Since the late 1980s sociologists have been drawing our attention to an international surge in the public visibility of religion. This has increasingly challenged two central aspects of modern western European culture: first, the assumption that as we became more modern we would become more secularised and religion would disappear; and secondly, that religion and politics should occupy radically differentiated spheres in which private conviction did not exert itself within the public realm. The new visibility of religion is not simply a matter of what Keppel famously called 'The Revenge of God', that is, the resurgence of Christian, Islamic and Jewish fundamentalism. Religion is permeating western culture in many different forms from contemporary continental philosophy, the arts and the media, to the rhetoric of international politicians. This collection of essays brings together a unique collection of voices from theology, aesthetics, social and political science, philosophy and cultural theory in an exploration of four major aspects of this new visibility of religion: the revision of the secularisation thesis, the relationship between religion and violence, the new re-enchantment of reality and the return of metaphysics. The exploration is conducted through essays by and interviews with figures at the forefront of reflecting upon this major cultural shift and its implications. It is distinctively multidisciplinary, examining the phenomenon of the rise of religion in Western Europe from a number of interrelated perspectives."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of Contributors

Introduction / Michael Hoelzl

Part I. Secularization. Chapter 1. Revising Secularization Theory / James Sweeney C.P. ; Chapter 2. Five Ways of Relating Religion and Politics or Living in Two Worlds : Believer and Citizen / Patrick Riordan S. J. ; Chapter 3. Secularism, Faith and Freedom / Rowan Williams

Part II. Violence. Chapter 4. The Bloody Skin of the Victim / René Girard ; Chapter 5. The Ambiguous Cachet of Victimhood : On Violence and Monotheism / Wolfgang Palaver ; Chapter 6. Monotheism and Violence / Terry Eagleton

Part III. Aesthetics. Chapter 7. The Art of Disappearing : Religion and Aestheticization / Yves de Maeseneer ; Chapter 8. The Re-enchantment of the World and the End of Modern Art / Peter Weibel ; Chapter 9. 'The End is Nigh' : A Reflection on the Relationship between Media and Religion / Alexander Darius Ornella

Part IV. Theology. Chapter 10. Radical Orthodoxy Ten Years On : The Return of Metaphysics / John Milbank and Graham Ward ; Chapter 11. Politics and the New Visibility of Theology / Peter Manley Scott ; Chapter 12. Religion after Detraditionalization : Christian Faith in a Postsecular Europe / Lieven Boeve

Index of Names

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612876271

9781472549471

1472549473

9781282876279

1282876279

9781441182043

1441182047

OCLC:

676700722