Exploring the Postsecular : The Religious, The Political and The Urban.
Material type: TextSeries: International Studies in Religion and Society SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (424 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004193710Subject(s): Cities and towns -- Religious aspects | Religion and sociologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exploring the Postsecular : The Religious, The Political and The UrbanDDC classification: 306.609051 LOC classification: BL60 -- .E97 2010ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- 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.
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