Religion After Postmodernism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion After Postmodernism write by Victor E. Taylor. This book was released on 2008. Religion After Postmodernism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this critical examination of the role of the imagination in the modern and postmodern periods, Victor E. Taylor looks at the 'fable' as a narrative form that addresses the ultimate questions of how to live and why. He assesses various literary theories and styles in the wake of postmodernism to reveal the ways in which fable-style narrative can be a meaningful genre for addressing traditional and post-traditional religious, ethical, and epistemological concerns. In the process, Taylor draws on key figures across the humanities--from Mircea Eliade and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Paul Ricoeur and Slavoj Zizek, to Leo Tolstoy and Franz Kafka. Placing an emphasis on rethinking the importance of critical theory in religious studies, the author argues that a new, more demanding formulation of the concept of possibility allows for a realignment of the philosophical, mythological, and literary imaginations. By returning to the history of philosophy, myth studies, and modern literature, Taylor makes a renewed case for the significance of a distinctive formulation of religious theory as a desire for thinking. Religion after Postmodernism calls for a reconsideration of "theory as thinking" for the future of philosophy, religious studies, and literature.
God and Religion in the Postmodern World
God and Religion in the Postmodern World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God and Religion in the Postmodern World write by David Ray Griffin. This book was released on 1989-01-01. God and Religion in the Postmodern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addressed to readers who have found liberal theology empty or who believe that one cannot be religious and fully rational and empirical at the same time.
Postmodern Belief
Postmodern Belief - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postmodern Belief write by Amy Hungerford. This book was released on 2010-07-01. Postmodern Belief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious value independent of meaning. Hungerford explores the work of major American writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson, and links their unique visions to the religious worlds they touch. She illustrates how Ginsberg's chant-infused 1960s poetry echoes the tongue-speaking of Charismatic Christians, how DeLillo reimagines the novel and the Latin Mass, why McCarthy's prose imitates the Bible, and why Morrison's fiction needs the supernatural. Uncovering how literature and religion conceive of a world where religious belief can escape confrontations with other worldviews, Hungerford corrects recent efforts to discard the importance of belief in understanding religious life, and argues that belief in belief itself can transform secular reading and writing into a religious act. Honoring the ways in which people talk about and practice religion, Postmodern Belief highlights the claims of the religious imagination in twentieth-century American culture.
After the Postsecular and the Postmodern
After the Postsecular and the Postmodern - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the Postsecular and the Postmodern write by Anthony Paul Smith. This book was released on 2011. After the Postsecular and the Postmodern available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Continental philosophy of religion has been dominated for two decades by 'postsecular' and 'postmodern' thought. This title questions what comes after the postsecular and the postmodern. It argues that philosophy of religion must either liberate itself from theological norms or mutate into a different practice of thinking.
Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory
Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory write by Carl A. Raschke. This book was released on 2012. Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While the academic study of religion has increased almost exponentially in the past fifty years, general theories of religion have been in significant decline. In his new book, Carl Raschke offers the first systematic exploration of how the postmodern philosophical theories of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek have contributed significantly to the development of a theory of religion as a whole. The bold paradigm he uses to articulate the framework for a revolution in religious theory comes from semiotics--namely, the problem of the sign and the "singularity" or "event horizon" from which a sign is generated.
