Religion and the Discourse on Modernity

Paul-Francois Tremlett is a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies and a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, UK. He has published essays on theory and method in the study of religions, on aspects of religion and culture in the Philippines and on the anthropology of religion on Taiwan.

• Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The discourse on modernity; 2. The aesthetic critique of modernity; Part I; 3. The phenomenology of religion; 4. Nietzsche; 5. Marx; 6. Freud; 7. Facts or values?; 8. Rational history, rational speech; 9. Of writing, representing and evoking; 10. The aesthetics of the sacred; 11. Summary; Part II; 12. On madness: Michel Foucault; 13. The possession at Loudun: Michel de Certeau; 14. Religion and the absence of God: Jacques Derrida; 15. Summary; Part III.; 16. Phenomenology and post-modernism revisited; 17. A return to ideology; 18. Summary; Part IV; 19. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.