The New Visibility of Religion Studies in Religion and Cultural Hermeneutics

by Ward, Graham; Hoelzl, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781847061317
• ISBN10: 1847061311
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781441182043
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-09
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

A unique collection of essays that brings together contributions from; theology, aesthetics, social and political science, philosophy and cultural theory to examine the surge in the public visibility of religion.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Secularization
Revising Secularization Theory	p. 15
Five Ways of Relating Religion and Politics or Living in Two Worlds: Believer and Citizen	p. 30
Secularism, Faith and Freedom	p. 45
Violence
The Bloody Skin of the Victim*	p. 59
The Ambiguous Cachet of Victimhood: On Violence and Monotheism	p. 68
Monotheism and Violence*	p. 88
Aesthetics
The Art of Disappearing: Religion and Aestheticization	p. 99
The Re-enchantment of the World and the End of Modern Art*	p. 117
'The End is Nigh': A Reflection on the Relationship between Media and Religion	p. 129
Theology
Radical Orthodoxy Ten Years On: The Return of Metaphysics*	p. 151
Politics and the New Visibility of Theology	p. 170
Religion after Detraditionalization: Christian Faith in a Postsecular Europe	p. 187
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