Secularization and the World Religions
Wiegandt, KlausContributor
Joas, HansContributor
Forum für Verantwortung,issuing body.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2009.
The question of religion, its contemporary and future significance and its role in society and state is currently perceived as an urgent one by many and is widely discussed within the public sphere. But it has also long been one of the core topics of the historically oriented social sciences. The immense stock of knowledge furnished by the history of religion and religious studies, theology, sociology and history has to be introduced into the public conscience today. This can promote greater awareness of the contemporary global religious situation and its links with politics and economics and counter rash syntheses such as the 'clash of civilizations'. This volume is concerned with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. The first part deals with major religious traditions and their explicit or implicit ideas about the individual, social and political order. The second part gives an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas. Additional contributions analyze the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion in a global perspective and the role of the natural sciences in the process of secularization. The contributors are internationally renowned scholars like Winfried Brugger, Jos̐¿ư Casanova, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Hans Joas, Hans G. Kippenberg, Gudrun Kr̐¿ưmer, David Martin, Eckart Otto and Rudolf Wagner.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Society, state and religion: their relationship from the perspective of the world religions: an introduction / Hans Joas -- Catholic Christianity / Cardinal Karl Lehmann -- Protestantism / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf -- The departure and return of God. Secularization and theologization in Judaism / Eckart Otto -- Islam and secularization / Gudrun Kramer -- Hinduism / Heinrich von Stietencron -- Secularization: Confucianism and Buddhism / Rudolf G. Wagner -- From hostility through recognition to identification. State-church models and their relationship to freedom of religion / Winfried Brugger -- "Science doesn't tremble": The secular natural sciences and the modern feeling for life / Ernst Peter Fischer -- The religious situation in Europe / Jose Casanova -- The religious situation in the USA / Hans Joas -- The religious situation in East Asia / Joachim Gentz -- The relevance of the European model of secularization in Latin America and Africa / David Martin -- The desecularization of the Middle East conflict : From a conflict between states to a conflict between religious communities / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Afterword / Klaus Wiegandt.
The question of religion, its contemporary and future significance and its role in society and state is currently perceived as an urgent one by many and is widely discussed within the public sphere. But it has also long been one of the core topics of the historically oriented social sciences. The immense stock of knowledge furnished by the history of religion and religious studies, theology, sociology and history has to be introduced into the public conscience today. This can promote greater awareness of the contemporary global religious situation and its links with politics and economics and counter rash syntheses such as the 'clash of civilizations'. This volume is concerned with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. The first part deals with major religious traditions and their explicit or implicit ideas about the individual, social and political order. The second part gives an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas. Additional contributions analyze the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion in a global perspective and the role of the natural sciences in the process of secularization. The contributors are internationally renowned scholars like Winfried Brugger, Jos̐¿ư Casanova, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Hans Joas, Hans G. Kippenberg, Gudrun Kr̐¿ưmer, David Martin, Eckart Otto and Rudolf Wagner.
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