Format:
1 Online-Ressource (264 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780691194165
Series Statement:
Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University 6
Content:
For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life—and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. Formations of Belief brings together many of today's leading historians to shed critical light on secularism's origins, its present crisis, and whether it is as antithetical to religion as it is so often made out to be.Formations of Belief offers a more nuanced understanding of the origins of secularist thought, demonstrating how Reformed Christianity and the Enlightenment were not the sole vessels of a worldview based on rationalism and individual autonomy. Taking readers from late antiquity to the contemporary era, the contributors show how secularism itself can be a form of belief and yet how its crisis today has been brought on by its apparent incapacity to satisfy people's spiritual needs. They explore the rise of the humanistic study of religion in Europe, Jewish messianism, atheism and last rites in the Soviet Union, the cult of the saints in colonial Mexico, religious minorities and Islamic identity in Pakistan, the neuroscience of religion, and more.Based on the Shelby Cullom Davis Center Seminars at Princeton University, this incisive book features illuminating essays by Peter Brown, Yaacob Dweck, Peter E. Gordon, Anthony Grafton, Brad S. Gregory, Stefania Pastore, Caterina Pizzigoni, Victoria Smolkin, Max Weiss, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Nord, Philip -- Part I. Religious Pluralism and the Origins of the Secular -- 1. Past Belief / Grafton, Anthony -- 2. Jacob Sasportas and Jewish Messianism / Dweck, Yaacob -- 3. Doubt and Unbelief in the Early Modern Era / Pastore, Stefania -- 4. Exeuntes de corpore qui sumus? “Out of the Body, Who Are We?” / Brown, Peter -- 5. In the Church and at Home / Pizzigoni, Caterina -- Part II. Secularism and Its Discontents -- 6. An Ordinary Soviet Death / Smolkin, Victoria -- 7. True Believers in the Modern Middle East / Weiss, Max -- 8. The Reformation Era and the Secularization of Knowledge / Gregory, Brad S. -- 9. Contesting Secularization / Gordon, Peter E. -- 10. Religious Minorities and the Anxieties of an Islamic Identity in Pakistan / Zaman, Muhammad Qasim -- Afterword. Belief in Science? On the Neuroscience of Religion / Guenther, Katja -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index
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restricted access online access with authorization star
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Formations of belief Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780691190754
Language:
English
Keywords:
Religion
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Glaube
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Säkularisierung
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9780691194165
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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