Post-Secular in Question

Philip S. Gorski is Professor of Sociology at Yale University and author of The Protestant Ethic Revisited. 800x600Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}David Kyuman Kimis Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at ConnecticutCollege, author of Melancholic Freedom:Agency and the Spirit of Politics, and editor-at-large of The Immanent Frame.John Torpey is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics. 800x600Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}Jonathan VanAntwerpenis director of the program on Religion and the Public Sphere at the SocialScience Research Council, co-editor of ThePower of Religion in the Public Sphere, and editor-in-chief of The Immanent Frame.

In the last two decades we have witnessed constant deconstructions and reconstructions of the categories of religion, the secular, and now the post-secular. This volume is the best entry I know to the whole debate. It serves both as a perfect illustration of the shifting terrain and as a helpful analytical guide to its exploration. - Jose Casanova,author of Public Religions in the Modern World The quality of almost all the chapters of this book is unusually high. One can learn things one didn't know and see them in a way one hadn't thought of by reading this diverse but very stimulating collection. The book does not solve the murky problem of the secular, much less the post-secular, but it gives new ways of thinking about them that have great promise as our work on these issues goes forward. - Robert Bellah,author of Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age An important contribution to the vast literature on secularization and religion in contemporary society. Scholars interested in those important topics will find much value in the book. (Sociology of Religion) The Post-Secular in Questionsustains the recent scholarly attention given to the contested and rather murky notion of post-secularism, although it approaches the topic in a more interesting way than many other works. (Religion Watch)

• The Post-Secular in Question 2 What Is Religion? Categorical Reconfigurations in a Global Horizon 3 Things in Their Entanglements 4 Recovered Goods: Durkheimian Sociology as Virtue Ethics 5 "Simple Ideas, Small Miracles": The Obama Phenomenon 6 Post-Secular Society: Consumerism and the Democratization of Religion 7 Secular Liturgies and the Prospects for a "Post-Secular" Sociology of Religion 8 Secular by Default? Religion and the University before the Post-Secular Age 9 Religion and Knowledge in the Post-Secular Academy 10 Jurgen Habermas and the Post-Secular Appropriation of Religion: A Sociological Critique 11 Religion and Secularization in the United States and Western Europe 12 Spiritual Politics and Post-Secular Authenticity: Foucault and Habermas on Post-Metaphysical Religion 13 Time, World, and Secularism About the Contributors