The Major Religions of the World-- Revisited - 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 The Major Religions of the World-- Revisited write by Robert Fawcett. This book was released on 2008-01-01. The Major Religions of the World-- Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Varieties of Religion Today
Varieties of Religion Today - 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 Varieties of Religion Today write by Charles Taylor. This book was released on 2003-11-30. Varieties of Religion Today available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the English-speaking world returns to the questions posed in James's masterpiece to clarify the circumstances and conditions of religion in our day. An elegant mix of the philosophy and sociology of religion, Charles Taylor's powerful book maintains a clear perspective on James's work in its historical and cultural contexts, while casting a new and revealing light upon the present. Lucid, readable, and dense with ideas that promise to transform current debates about religion and secularism, Varieties of Religion Today is much more than a revisiting of James's classic. Rather, it places James's analysis of religious experience and the dilemmas of doubt and belief in an unfamiliar but illuminating context, namely the social horizon in which questions of religion come to be presented to individuals in the first place. Taylor begins with questions about the way in which James conceives his subject, and shows how these questions arise out of different ways of understanding religion that confronted one another in James's time and continue to do so today. Evaluating James's treatment of the ethics of belief, he goes on to develop an innovative and provocative reading of the public and cultural conditions in which questions of belief or unbelief are perceived to be individual questions. What emerges is a remarkable and penetrating view of the relation between religion and social order and, ultimately, of what "religion" means.
Religion's Sudden Decline
Religion's Sudden Decline - 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's Sudden Decline write by Ronald F. Inglehart. This book was released on 2021-01-02. Religion's Sudden Decline available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Religion's Sudden Decline' provides evidence of a major decline in religion in most of the world, based on surveys of over 100 countries containing 90 percent of the world's population, carried out from 1981 to 2020 - the largest base of empirical evidence ever assembled to analyse mass acceptance or rejection of religion.--
The Fetish Revisited
The Fetish Revisited - 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 The Fetish Revisited write by J. Lorand Matory. This book was released on 2018-10-04. The Fetish Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term “fetishism” chiefly to assert the irrationality of their fellow Europeans. Yet, as J. Lorand Matory demonstrates in The Fetish Revisited, Afro-Atlantic gods have a materially embodied social logic of their own, which is no less rational than the social theories of Marx and Freud. Drawing on thirty-six years of fieldwork in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European theory to show how Marx’s and Freud’s conceptions of the fetish both illuminate and misrepresent Africa’s human-made gods. Through this analysis, the priests, practices, and spirited things of four major Afro-Atlantic religions simultaneously call attention to the culture-specific, materially conditioned, physically embodied, and indeed fetishistic nature of Marx’s and Freud’s theories themselves. Challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of gods and theories, Matory offers a novel perspective on the social roots of these tandem African and European understandings of collective action, while illuminating the relationship of European social theory to the racism suffered by Africans and assimilated Jews alike.
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere - 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 The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere write by Judith Butler. This book was released on 2011-03-02. The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does or should religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine, Judith Butler explores the potential of religious perspectives for renewing cultural and political criticism, while Jürgen Habermas, best known for his seminal conception of the public sphere, thinks through the ambiguous legacy of the concept of "the political" in contemporary theory. Charles Taylor argues for a radical redefinition of secularism, and Cornel West defends civil disobedience and emancipatory theology. Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen detail the immense contribution of these philosophers to contemporary social and political theory, and an afterword by Craig Calhoun places these attempts to reconceive the significance of both religion and the secular in the context of contemporary national and international politics.
