Religion and Normativity, Volume III
Title | Religion and Normativity, Volume III PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Lodberg |
Publisher | Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2009-12-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 8779346561 |
The volumes of Religion and Normativity present the latest research in three central fields. Volume III discusses religious pluralism and the development of a Western European version of Islam. The question of religious authority in a European tradition of enlightenment is also included. The analyses are inter-disciplinary, including the ideas of the study of religion, theology, politology and the history of ideas.
Religion in Disputes
Title | Religion in Disputes PDF eBook |
Author | F. von Benda-Beckmann |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2013-08-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137318341 |
How are time-honored tenets of faith, different ritual sensibilities, and newly emerging eschatological imaginaries articulated with other normative registers and moral susceptibilities in disputes? This book examines such questions through cases in Europe, the United States, Israel, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
The Discursive Fight over Religious Texts in Antiquity
Title | The Discursive Fight over Religious Texts in Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Anders-Christian Jacobsen |
Publisher | Aarhus University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-04-22 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9788779346581 |
The volumes of Religion and Normativity presents the latest research in three central fields. Volume I discusses the construction of normative texts in early Christianity and Judaism, including canon formation, the question of authoritative interpretation of canon, and the re-writing of normative texts in new situations. Among other things, the authors employ literary theories and memory construction.
Normativity and Empirical Research in Theology
Title | Normativity and Empirical Research in Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes A. van der Ven |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2004-11-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9047404327 |
In this publication, researchers and academics from South Africa, Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands provide theoretical explanations and examples of empirical research with regard to the fundamental question of the role of theological normativity in empirical research in theological fields.
Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion - and Vice Versa
Title | Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion - and Vice Versa PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas A. Lewis |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0198744749 |
Work in philosophy of religion is still strongly marked by an excessive focus on Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Judaism -- almost to the exclusion of other religious traditions. Moreover, in many cases it has been confined to a narrow set of intellectual problems, without embedding these in their larger social, historical, and practical contexts. Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion--and Vice Versa addresses this situation through a series of interventions intended to work against the gap that exists between much scholarship in philosophy of religion and important recent developments that speak to religious studies as a whole. This volume takes up what, in recent years, has often been seen as a fundamental reason for excluding religious ethics and philosophy of religion from religious studies: their explicit normativity. Against this presupposition, Thomas A. Lewis argues that normativity is pervasive--not unique to ethics and philosophy of religion--and therefore not a reason to exclude them from religious studies. Lewis bridges more philosophical and historical subfields by arguing for the importance of history to the philosophy of religion. He considers the future of religious ethics, explaining that the field as a whole should learn from the methodological developments associated with recent work in comparative religious ethics and "comparative religious ethics" should no longer be conceived as a distinct subfield. The concluding chapter engages broader, post-9/11 arguments about the importance of studying religion arguing, that prominent contemporary notions of "religious literacy" actually hinder our ability to grasp religion's significance and impact in the world today.
Religion, Politics, and Law
Title | Religion, Politics, and Law PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Lodberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The relationship between religion, politics, and law represents, one of the most important issues in contemporary discussions on the worlds future. While global changes and political conflicts in many parts of the world demand serious reflection about the role of religion in politics and in public discourse, the study of religion in post-secular societies calls for reflections about the normative role of religion in politics and law. Through the contributions of scholars in the disciplines of theology, the science of religion, and political science, this volume presents an absorbing analysis of democracy, politics, and law, drawing upon the works of John Rawls, Jfirgen Haberman, Max Horkheimer, Michel Foucault and Theodor W Adorno. Such topics as Islam and democracy are addressed, in addition to the report by the European Council on Fatwa and Research and specific issues in which churches have been involved in political conflicts. Case studies on communism, nazism, and apartheid, for example, are also presented, and finally the question is addressed of how inter-religious dialogue can function in secular societies in relation to the Danish cartoon crisis.
Religion, Politics and Law
Title | Religion, Politics and Law PDF eBook |
Author | Barend Christoffel Labuschagne |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004172076 |
Exploring the pre-political en pre-legal spiritual infrastructure from which modern, liberal democracies in the West live, but cannot guarantee, this book inquires the relations between religion, politics and law from a philosophical perspective, discussing historical, systematical and practical issues.