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Challenging Modernity / Robert N. Bellah [and four others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellah, Robert N. (Robert Neelly), 1927-2013, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bellah, Robert N. (Robert Neelly), 1927-2013.
- Bellah, Robert N.
- Religion and sociology.
- Responsibility.
- Social history--21st century.
- Social history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (374 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- In three final essays, Robert N. Bellah grapples with the contradictions of modernity, and seven leading thinkers respond with profound new perspectives on our present predicament.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Introduction, by Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton
- Part I. Diagnosing Modernity
- 1. The Modern Project in the Light of Human Evolution, by Robert N. Bellah
- 2. Turning Off Nature's Thermostats: Technology, Ecology, and Deep History, by Kyle Harper
- 3. Thermostatlessness: The Project of Modernity and the Process of Modernization: Reflections on Robert Bellah's Account of the Late Modern Predicament, by Hartmut Rosa
- Part II. The Modern Project
- 4. Prologue in Heaven (or Hell) to the Modern Project, by Robert N. Bellah
- 5. Culture and Hope: Reflections on Bellah's Unfinished Project, by Ana Marta González
- 6. Axiality and the Critique of Power, by Alan Strathern
- 7. Organic Social Ethic: Universalism Without Egalitarianism, by Hans Joas
- Part III. The Challenge of Modernity
- 8. The Tillich Lecture: Paul Tillich and the Challenge of Modernity, by Robert N. Bellah
- 9. On the Search for "A Serious Ethical Form of Individualism": Bellah, Tillich, and the Anthropology of Christian Individualism, by Joel Robbins
- 10. "Disenchantment of the World" or Fragmentation of the Sacred?, by Philip Gorski
- Conclusion, by Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231560511
- 0231560516
- OCLC:
- 1427014270
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