After Secular Law
Title | After Secular Law PDF eBook |
Author | Winnifred Sullivan |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2011-08-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0804775362 |
Bringing together scholars with a variety of perspectives and orientations, this work examines the interconnections between law and religion and the unexpected histories and anthropologies of legal secularism in a globalizing modernity.
A Secular Age
Title | A Secular Age PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Taylor |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 889 |
Release | 2018-09-17 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0674986911 |
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Religion after Secularization in Australia
Title | Religion after Secularization in Australia PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Stanley |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137551380 |
Religion's persistent and new visibility in political life has prompted a significant global debate. One of this debate's key features concerns the nature and impact of secularization. This collection of essays draws together leading sociologists, historians, philosophers of religion, and political theorists in order to provide a broad and up-to-date account of religion after secularization. Contributors explore the meaning and conceptual legacies of religion, as well as the unique features of the Australian case such as religion as it relates to law, education, gender, media, and radical political movements. Intervening in the current debate, this book provides summative accounts of the historical, cultural, and legal interactions that have informed Australia’s relationship to religion and secularization. Contributors critically analyze and engage with secular political theory concerning the public sphere, while also dissecting deliberative politics and democratic practices. This book propels the debate over religion’s place in public life in new directions and promotes urgently needed public understanding.
After Modernity?
Title | After Modernity? PDF eBook |
Author | James K. A. Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN |
The "conservative radicalismrepresented in these contributions will resonate with a broad audience of scholars and citizens who seek to put faith into action.
Secularization Without End
Title | Secularization Without End PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent P. Pecora |
Publisher | Yusko Ward-Phillips Lectures i |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780268038991 |
Vincent P. Pecora discovers an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theological ideas in the supposedly secularized genre.
How the West Really Lost God
Title | How the West Really Lost God PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Eberstadt |
Publisher | Templeton Foundation Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2013-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1599474298 |
In this magisterial work, leading cultural critic Mary Eberstadt delivers a powerful new theory about the decline of religion in the Western world. The conventional wisdom is that the West first experienced religious decline, followed by the decline of the family. Eberstadt turns this standard account on its head. Marshalling an impressive array of research, from fascinating historical data on family decline in pre-Revolutionary France to contemporary popular culture both in the United States and Europe, Eberstadt shows that the reverse has also been true: the undermining of the family has further undermined Christianity itself. Drawing on sociology, history, demography, theology, literature, and many other sources, Eberstadt shows that family decline and religious decline have gone hand in hand in the Western world in a way that has not been understood before—that they are, as she puts it in a striking new image summarizing the book’s thesis, “the double helix of society, each dependent on the strength of the other for successful reproduction.” In sobering final chapters, Eberstadt then lays out the enormous ramifications of the mutual demise of family and faith in the West. While it is fashionable in some circles to applaud the decline both of religion and the nuclear family, there are, as Eberstadt reveals, enormous social, economic, civic, and other costs attendant on both declines. Her conclusion considers this tantalizing question: whether the economic and demographic crisis now roiling Europe and spreading to America will have the inadvertent result of reviving the family as the most viable alternative to the failed welfare state—fallout that could also lay the groundwork for a religious revival as well. How the West Really Lost God is both a startlingly original account of how secularization happens and a sweeping brief about why everyone should care. A book written for agnostics as well as believers, atheists as well as “none of the above,” it will permanently change the way every reader understands the two institutions that have hitherto undergirded Western civilization as we know it—family and faith—and the real nature of the relationship between those two pillars of history.
The Chumash Indians After Secularization
Title | The Chumash Indians After Secularization PDF eBook |
Author | John Richard Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | California |
ISBN |