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Public Religions in the Future World - Postsecularism and Utopia (Hardcover)
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Public Religions in the Future World - Postsecularism and Utopia (Hardcover)
Series: Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America Series
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Public Religions in the Future World is the first book to map the
utopian terrain of the political-religious movements of the past
four decades. Examining a politically diverse set of utopian
fictions, this book cuts across the usual Right/Left political
divisions to show a surprising convergence: each
political-religious vision imagines a revived world of care and
community over and against the economization and fragmentation of
neoliberalism. Understanding these religions as utopian movements
in reaction to neoliberalism, Public Religions invites us to
rethink the bases of religious identification and practice.
Offering new insights on texts from the Left Behind series to the
novels of Octavia Butler, Public Religions shows that the utopian
energy of the present opens new opportunities for political
organizing and genuine, lasting community building. Public
Religions in the Future World presents a literary history of the
political-religious present, arguing that the power of public
religion lies in the utopian visions that underlie religious
beliefs. It shows that contemporary literary utopianism is deeply
inflected with religious ideas, with the visions, values, and
ambitions of Christianity, Islam, nature mysticism, and other
traditions. Further, Public Religions demonstrates that this
utopianism's religiosity is in turn politically inflected, that it
resonates with and underwrites a range of competing political
projects: those of imperialism, globalization, neoliberal
capitalism, deep ecology, and the pro-migration movement. David
Morris constructs a working theory of how religion makes
large-scale interventions in political debates. The novels in his
study draw on religious traditions to articulate visions, programs,
or missions for achieving some version of an improved world. In
doing so, they undertake the work of literary postmodernism: to
represent globality, to recover the voices of the underrepresented,
and to imagine a future that escapes the destructiveness of global
capitalism.
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