The post-secular in question : religion in contemporary society / edited by Philip S. Gorski ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gorski, Philip S.

Social Science Research Council (U.S.), publisher.

Series:

Social Science Research Council ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Postsecularism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : Social Science Research Council ; New York : New York University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Post-Secular in Question considers whether there has in fact been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in recent decades. This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today’s world. Foregrounding the most urgent and compelling questions raised by the place of religion in the social sciences, past and present, The Post-Secular in Question restores religion to a more central place in social scientific thinking about the world, helping to move scholarship “beyond unbelief.” Contributors: Courtney Bender, Craig Calhoun, Michele Dillon, Philip S. Gorski, Richard Madsen, Kathleen Mahoney, Tomoko Masuzawa, Eduardo Mendieta, John Schmalzbauer, James K. A. Smith, John Torpey, Bryan S. Turner, Hent de Vries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1 The Post-Secular in Question

2 What Is Religion? Categorical Reconfigurations in a Global Horizon

3 Things in Their Entanglements

4 Recovered Goods: Durkheimian Sociology as Virtue Ethics

5 “Simple Ideas, Small Miracles”: The Obama Phenomenon

6 Post-Secular Society: Consumerism and the Democratization of Religion

7 Secular Liturgies and the Prospects for a “Post-Secular” Sociology of Religion

8 Secular by Default? Religion and the University before the Post-Secular Age

9 Religion and Knowledge in the Post-Secular Academy

10 Jürgen Habermas and the Post-Secular Appropriation of Religion: A Sociological Critique

11 Religion and Secularization in the United States and Western Europe

12 Spiritual Politics and Post-Secular Authenticity: Foucault and Habermas on Post-Metaphysical Religion

13 Time, World, and Secularism

About the Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814738733

0814738737

9780814738740

0814738745

OCLC:

793165425