Critical Issues in Modern Religion
Author | : Roger A. Johnson |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780131939790 |
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Author | : Roger A. Johnson |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780131939790 |
Author | : Roger A. Johnson |
Publisher | : Pearson |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
An in-depth, interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary religion and its issues. Covers materials fully by using self-contained chapters and sections that are relatively independent of each other. It also reflects on the many new developments in religion with several complete chapter rewrites. For anyone interested in Modern Religion.
Author | : Oliver Brennan |
Publisher | : Veritas Co. Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1853906522 |
This book explores the meaning and identity of religious education within the cultural context of today.
Author | : Theodore Vial |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 019021256X |
Religion is a racialized category, even when race is not explicitly mentioned. In Modern Religion, Modern Race Theodore Vial argues that because the categories of religion and race are rooted in the post-Enlightenment project of reimagining what it means to be human, we cannot simply will ourselves to stop using them. Only by acknowledging that religion is already racialized can we begin to understand how the two concepts are intertwined and how they operate in our modern world. It has become common to argue that the category religion is not universal, or even very old, but is a product of Europe's Enlightenment modernization. Equally common is the argument that religion is not an innocent category of analysis, but is implicated in colonial regimes of control and as such plays a role in Europe's process of identity construction of itself and of non-European "others." Current debates about race follow an eerily similar trajectory: race is not an ancient but a modern construction. It is part of the project of colonialism, and race discourse forms one of the cornerstones of modern European identity-making. Why can't we stop using them, or re-construct them in less toxic ways? By examining the theories of Kant, Herder, and Schleiermacher, among others, Vial uncovers co-constitutive nature of race and religion, describes how they became building blocks of the modern world, and shows how the two concepts continue to be used today to form identity and to make sense of the world. He shows that while we disdain the racist language of some of the founders of religious studies, the continued influence of the modern worldview they helped create leads us, often unwittingly, to reiterate many of the same distinctions and hierarchies. Although it may not be time to abandon the very category of religion, with all its attendant baggage, Modern Religion, Modern Race calls for us to examine that baggage critically, and to be fully conscious of the ways in which religion always carries with it dangerous ideas of race.
Author | : Ivanessa Arostegui |
Publisher | : Cognella Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Ecology |
ISBN | : 9781516509072 |
This anthology "explores three areas of life in which religion has a profound impact: political policy; ecology: and women's rights. Through the lens of six religions -- Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- the carefully-curated articles address some of contemporary society's most challenging issues"--Cover.
Author | : Roger A. Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Steven M. Cahn |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Includes selections from Plato, Boethius, Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Kierkegaard, William James, Anthony Flew, accompanied by modern essays.
Author | : Titus Hjelm |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2011-01-21 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1136854134 |
Although students and scholars of social problems have often acknowledged the role of religion, no thorough examinations of the relation between the two have emerged. This book fills this gap by providing a definitive work on the impact of religion on social problems, religion as a solution to social problems, and religion as a social problem in itself.
Author | : Jack Barbalet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion and sociology |
ISBN | : 9781783080663 |
With a clear statement of the theoretical issues in the debates about secularization and post-secularism, 'Religion and the State: A Comparative Sociology' considers a number of major case studies - from China, Europe, Singapore and South Asia - in order to understand the rise of public religions in the modern state. By distinguishing between political secularization - the separation of state and religion - and social secularization - the transformation of the everyday practice of religion - this volume offers an integrating framework within which to analyze these different societies.
Author | : Mark C. Taylor |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226791734 |
A century that began with modernism sweeping across Europe is ending with a remarkable resurgence of religious beliefs and practices throughout the world. Wherever one looks today, from headlines about political turmoil in the Middle East to pop music and videos, one cannot escape the pivotal role of religious beliefs and practices in shaping selves, societies, and cultures. Following in the very successful tradition of Critical Terms for Literary Studies and Critical Terms for Art History, this book attempts to provide a revitalized, self-aware vocabulary with which this bewildering religious diversity can be accurately described and responsibly discussed. Leading scholars working in a variety of traditions demonstrate through their incisive discussions that even our most basic terms for understanding religion are not neutral but carry specific historical and conceptual freight. These essays adopt the approach that has won this book's predecessors such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a critical term, explores the issues raised by the term, and puts the term to use in an analysis of a religious work, practice, or event. Moving across Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Native American and Mayan religions, contributors explore terms ranging from experience, territory, and image, to God, sacrifice, and transgression. The result is an essential reference that will reshape the field of religious studies and transform the way in which religion is understood by scholars from all disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, gender studies, and literary studies.