The future of Christianity : reflections on violence and democracy, religion and secularization / David Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, David, 1929-2019, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularism.

Christianity and politics.

Christianity--21st century.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

ix, 230 p.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David Martin over some fifty years, complementing his book On Secularization. Deploying secularisation as an omnibus word bringing many dimensions into play, Martin argues that the boundaries of the concept of secularisation must not be redefined simply to cover aberrant cases, as when the focus was more on America as an exception rather than on Europe as an exception to the 'furiously religious' character of the rest of the world. Particular themes of focus include the dialectic of Christianity and secularization, the relation of Christianity to multiple enlightenments and modes of modernity, the enigmas of East Germany and Eastern Europe, and the rise of the transnational religious voluntary association, including Pentecostalism, as that feeds into vast religious changes in the developing world. Doubts are cast on the idea that religion has ever been privatised and has lately renetered the public realm. The rest of the book deals with the relation of the Christian repertoire to the nexus of religion and politics, including democracy and violence and sharply criticises polemical assertions of a special relation of religion to violence, and explores the contributions of 'cognitive science' to the debate

Contents:

pt. 1. Secularization and the future of Christianity

pt. 2. Case studies of secularization

pt. 3. Religion and politics, democracy and violence.

Notes:

"First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4094-8134-4

1-317-03115-6

1-315-55794-0

1-317-03114-8

1-282-94828-8

9786612948282

1-4094-0659-8

9781315557946

OCLC:

1022787904