Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity

by Heelas, Paul; Martin, David; Morris, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780631198475
• ISBN10: 0631198474
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity is the first book to engage the study of religion with contemporary theorizing about culture. It addresses important issues such as whether there are postmodern forms of religion, whether theories of religion framed in terms of modernity can be recast to suit new or emerging circumstances, and how the study of religion can be better integrated with recent developments in the study of culture.

Author Biography

Paul Heelas is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster. His last book, The New Age Movement (Blackwell, 1995), has met with critical acclaim and he is also a Series Editor for the new Blackwell series Religion and Modernity.

David Martin is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
1 Introduction: on differentiation and dedifferentiation	1	(18)
Paul Heelas
2 Cathedrals to cults: the evolving forms of the religious life	19	(17)
Steve Bruce
3 Terminal faith	36	(19)
Mark C. Taylor
4 Postmodern religion?	55	(24)
Zygmunt Bauman
5 Tradition, retrospective perception, nationalism and modernism	79	(9)
Ninian Smart
6 From fundamentalism to fundamentalisms: a religious ideology in multiple forms	88	(14)
Bruce B. Lawrence
7 From pre- to postmodernity in Latin America: the case of Pentecostalism	102	(45)
Bernice Martin
8 Secularization and citizenship in Muslim Indonesia	147	(22)
Robert W. Hefner
9 Religion and national identity in modern and postmodern Japan	169	(17)
Winston Davis
10 The construals of 'Europe': religion, theology and the problematics of modernity	186	(32)
Richard H. Roberts
11 Post-Christianity	218	(15)
Don Cupitt
12 Kenosis and naming: beyond analogy and towards allegoria amoris	233	(25)
Graham Ward
13 Sublimity: the modern transcendent	258	(27)
John Milbank
14 The primacy of theology and the question of perception	285	(29)
Phillip Blond
15 The Impossible	314	(18)
Kevin Hart
Index	332