Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 322 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9004144633
Series Statement:
International studies in religion and society v. 3
Content:
The volume collects eminent works on the relationship between politics and religion by leading figures in Cultural Studies. The contributors share in the basic belief that the roots of contemporary conflicts have to be uncovered from the historical descent of religion
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Acknowledgements; Politics and Religion: An Introduction (Bernhard Giesen and Daniel Šuber); The Transformations of the Religious Dimension in the Constitution of Contemporary Modernities (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt); 'Axial' Breakthroughs and Semantic 'Relocations' in Ancient Egypt and Israel (Jan Assmann); Politics and Religion from an Anthropological Point of View: An Interview with Mary Douglas (Daniel Šuber and Marco Kaiser); Religion and Morality in Modern Europe Compared to the Religious Situation in the United States of America (Thomas Luckmann)
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Tales of Transcendence: Imagining the Sacred in Politics (Bernhard Giesen)Monotheism and Its Political Consequences (Jan Assmann); The Religious Origins of Modern Radical Movements (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt); Political Theology: Religion as Legitimizing Fiction in Antique and Early Modern Critique (Jan Assmann); Temporal Foreshortening and Acceleration: A Study on Secularization (Reinhart Koselleck); Secularization: German Catholicism on the Eve of Modernity (Rudolf Schlögl)
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Religion, Philosophy and Social Science: The Rise of Modern Social Science from the Point of View of Conceptual History (Daniel Šuber)Politics and Religion in European Nation-States: Institutional Varieties and Contemporary Transformations (Matthias Koenig); Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004144637
Additional Edition:
Print version Religion and Politics : Cultural Perspectives
Language:
English
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