Religion in the Secular Age : Perspectives from the Humanities / edited by Herta Nagl-Docekal and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nagl-Docekal, Herta, editor.

Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar, editor.

Series:

Wiener Reihe (Arbeitsmarktservice Wien) ; Volume 22.

Wiener Reihe Series ; Volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and civil society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

What does it mean to be religious believers for people whose living conditions are defined by an increasingly secularized environment? Is the common distinction between faith and knowledge valid? The 21 essays cover approaches from various fields of the humanities. Some explore post-Kantian thoughts, discussing, i.a., American Pragmatism, M. Buber, M. Horkheimer, H. Putnam, J. Habermas, Ch. Taylor and variants of deconstruction, while other essays focus on ways in which the conflict between agnostics and seekers is addressed in US literary works, as in Fl. O'Connor, W. Percy, N. Hawthorne, J. Updike and in novels dealing with pandemics, for instance by L. Wright, E. M. Wiseman and R. Cook. Historical studies examine the intermingling of the sacred and the secular in the American South and neo-scholastic objections to modernity. Theological issues are being re-framed in essays discussing the relevance of pluralism, the relation of religious conviction and public opinion, the situation of scientists who believe and the thoughts of N. Frye and M. McLuhan. Finally, essays pay attention to religious aspects in works of art, e.g. in Ukrainian poetry, G. Mahler's symphonies and in a TV show presenting new "American Gods" of globalization.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Religion in the Secular Age

Part I Post-Kantian Approaches to Religion

God as the Infinite: Martin Buber's Interpretation of Kant's Concept of Religion

(Secular) Theodicy, Antitheodicy, and the Critique of Meaning: Pragmatist Reflections

Beyond Dogmatic Scientism: Hilary Putnam on Religious Faith

Angles and Angels: Charles Taylor and Steven Pinker on Moral Progress in History

Part II Religion in Critical Theory and Deconstruction

Benjamin's Time of Healing: The Messianic as Remembrance, Happiness, and Justice

Re-considering the Distinction between Atheists and Believers, or: Max Horkheimer's Reading of Kant

Defining What is "Extraterritorial": Religion and Utopia in Habermas and Ricoeur

Secularizing Both Religion and Reason: Upending the Secular/Religious Distinction

This Incredible Need to Believe: Julia Kristeva's Reinvention of Secular Humanism at the Crossroad of Religion, Psychoanalysis, and Politics

Part III Religion in U.S. Literature and Politics in a Global Context

Critical Perspectives on Self-Sufficing Humanism in Southern Fiction

The Southern Civil Religion: The Intermingling of the Sacred and the Secular in the American South

Catholicism in Defense? Roman Catholic Answers to the Quest for Modernity

Competing Quests for a Hidden God in John Updike's Roger's Version

Science and Religion in U.S.-American Pandemic Literature

Part IV Re-Framing Theological Issues and Individual Convictions

Philosophical Pluralism and Religious Faith in a Secular Age

Religious Convictions and Public Reason: On the Way to a Two-Stage Epistemology of Religion

Scientists Who Believe: From Louis Agassiz to Katharine Hayhoe

Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan: Two Canadian Christian Thinkers.

Part V Religion in Poetry, Music and Visual Media

Religious Aspects of Ukrainian Poetry - The Case of Vasyl′ Stus

Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Transcendence and Its Counterparts

Serial Baroque in the TV Show American Gods

List of Contributors

Index of Authors

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-124787-2