Molendijk, Arie.
Exploring the Postsecular : The Religious, The Political and The Urban. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (424 pages) - International Studies in Religion and Society Ser. ; v.13 . - International Studies in Religion and Society Ser. .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Part One Exploring the Field: Introductory Essays -- Transcending the Particular in Postsecular Cities -- Cutting through the Postsecular City: A Spatial Interrogation -- Part Two Conceptualizing the Postsecular -- Spaces of Postsecularism -- Contrasting Modernities: 'Postsecular' Europe and Enspirited Latin America -- How Ethnocentric is the Concept of the Postsecular? -- The Transformation of Religious Culture within Modern Societies: From Secularization to Postsecularism -- Voicing the Self in Postsecular Society: A Psychological Perspective on Meaning-Making and Collective Identities -- 'God made the Country, and Man Made the Town': Some Observations on the Place of Religion in the Western (Post)Secular City -- Making Sense of Sacred Space in the City? -- Inscribing the General Theory of Secularization and its Basic Patterns in the Architectural Space/Time of the City: From Presecular to Postsecular? -- Religion and the Salvation of Urban Politics: Beyond Cooption, Competition and Commodification -- Theo-Ethics and Radical Faith-Based Praxis in the Postsecular City -- The End of the Secular City Dream: The Case of Ankara -- Postsecularism or Late Secularism? Faith Creating Place in the US -- Virtual Re-Evangelization: Brazilian Churches, Media and the Postsecular City -- Beyond the Secular? Public Reason and the Search for a Concept of Postsecular Legitimacy -- Restraints on Religious Reasoning in the Political Square? -- Public Reason and Inclusionism as Pseudo-Inclusionism -- Neoliberalism for God's Sake: Sectarian Justifications for Secular Policy Transformation in the United States -- The Uses of Religion in Public Institutions: The Case of Prisons -- Index of Names.
This book examines contemporary relations between religion, politics and urban societies from a theoretical perspective. Special attention is paid to those authors (e.g. Habermas, Taylor) who analyze new global constellations in terms of a shift from the secular to the postsecular.
9789004193710
Cities and towns -- Religious aspects.
Religion and sociology.
Electronic books.
BL60 -- .E97 2010eb
306.609051
Exploring the Postsecular : The Religious, The Political and The Urban. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (424 pages) - International Studies in Religion and Society Ser. ; v.13 . - International Studies in Religion and Society Ser. .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Part One Exploring the Field: Introductory Essays -- Transcending the Particular in Postsecular Cities -- Cutting through the Postsecular City: A Spatial Interrogation -- Part Two Conceptualizing the Postsecular -- Spaces of Postsecularism -- Contrasting Modernities: 'Postsecular' Europe and Enspirited Latin America -- How Ethnocentric is the Concept of the Postsecular? -- The Transformation of Religious Culture within Modern Societies: From Secularization to Postsecularism -- Voicing the Self in Postsecular Society: A Psychological Perspective on Meaning-Making and Collective Identities -- 'God made the Country, and Man Made the Town': Some Observations on the Place of Religion in the Western (Post)Secular City -- Making Sense of Sacred Space in the City? -- Inscribing the General Theory of Secularization and its Basic Patterns in the Architectural Space/Time of the City: From Presecular to Postsecular? -- Religion and the Salvation of Urban Politics: Beyond Cooption, Competition and Commodification -- Theo-Ethics and Radical Faith-Based Praxis in the Postsecular City -- The End of the Secular City Dream: The Case of Ankara -- Postsecularism or Late Secularism? Faith Creating Place in the US -- Virtual Re-Evangelization: Brazilian Churches, Media and the Postsecular City -- Beyond the Secular? Public Reason and the Search for a Concept of Postsecular Legitimacy -- Restraints on Religious Reasoning in the Political Square? -- Public Reason and Inclusionism as Pseudo-Inclusionism -- Neoliberalism for God's Sake: Sectarian Justifications for Secular Policy Transformation in the United States -- The Uses of Religion in Public Institutions: The Case of Prisons -- Index of Names.
This book examines contemporary relations between religion, politics and urban societies from a theoretical perspective. Special attention is paid to those authors (e.g. Habermas, Taylor) who analyze new global constellations in terms of a shift from the secular to the postsecular.
9789004193710
Cities and towns -- Religious aspects.
Religion and sociology.
Electronic books.
BL60 -- .E97 2010eb
306.609051