Religion and the Discourse on Modernity

AvPaul-François Tremlett

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Beskrivning

The point of departure for this book is the debate about whether religious studies should privilege explanation or understanding. Engaging with contemporary scholarship in the field, Tremlett argues that the study of religions has always involved the conflation of facts and values and indeed has been structured in advance by the value-saturated discourse on disenchanted modernity. He argues that phenomenological and post-modern approaches to religions lack both theoretical and methodological coherence, and in their stead proposes a Marxist approach to religions that is at once empirical and informed by values pertaining to social justice, freedom and autonomy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-01-08
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:170
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441157980
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
Serie:Continuum Advances in Religious Studies

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

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Paul-Francois Tremlett is Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction1. The discourse on modernity2. The aesthetic critique of modernityPart I3. The phenomenology of religion4. Nietzsche5. Marx6. Freud7. Facts or values?8. Rational history, rational speech9. Of writing, representing and evoking10. The aesthetics of the sacred 11. Summary Part II12. On madness: Michel Foucault13. The possession at Loudun: Michel de Certeau14. Religion and the absence of God: Jacques Derrida15. SummaryPart III16.Phenomenology and post-modernism revisited17. A return to ideology18. SummaryPart IV19. ConclusionsBibliography Index