Format:
1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
1350145645
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9781350145672
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9781350145658
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9781350145641
Content:
"What does it really mean to be modern? The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber's historical idea of disenchantment and to develop further his understanding of what the contested relationship between modernity and religion represents. The approach is distinctive because it focuses on disenchantment as key to understanding those aspects of modern society and culture that Weber diagnosed. This is in opposition to approaches that focus on secularization , narrowly construed as the rise of secularism or the divide between religion and politics, and that then conflate this with modernization as a whole. Other novel contributions are discussions of temporality - meaning the sense of time or of historical change that posits a separation between an ostensibly secular modernity and its religious past - and of the manner in which such a sense of time is constructed and disseminated through narratives that themselves may resemble religious myths. It reflects the idea that disenchantment is a narrative with either Enlightenment, Romantic, or Christian roots, thereby developing a conversation between critical studies in the field of secularism (such as those of Talal Asad and Gil Anidjar) and conceptual history approaches to secularization and modernity (such as those of Karl Løwith and Reinhart Koselleck), and in the process creates something that is more than merely the sum of its parts."--
Content:
Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dialectics of Disenchantment: The Devaluation of the Objective World and the Revaluation of Subjective Religiosity -- Hans Kippenberg -- Max Weber and the Rationalization of Magic -- Jason A. Josephson-Storm -- Science as a Commodity: Disenchantment and Conspicuous Consumption -- Egil Asprem -- Multiple Times of Disenchantment and Secularization -- Lorenz Trein -- The Disenchanted Enchantments of the Modern Imagination and "Fictionalism" -- Michael Saler -- Narratives of Disenchantment, Narratives of Secularization: Radical Enlightenment and the Rise of the Illiberal Secular -- Jonathan Israel -- "An Age of Miracles": Disenchantment as a Secularized Theological Narrative -- Robert A. Yelle -- Counter-Narratives to Secularization: Merits and Limits of Genealogy Critique -- Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- List of Contributors -- Index
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Includes index
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Also published in print.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Narratives of disenchantment and secularization London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 ISBN 9781350327757
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350145641
Language:
English
Keywords:
Weber, Max 1864-1920
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Moderne
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Soziokultureller Wandel
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Säkularisierung
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.5040/9781350145672
Author information:
Yelle, Robert A. 1966-
Author information:
Trein, Lorenz 1984-
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