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The New Visibility of Religion - Studies in Religion and Cultural Hermeneutics (Paperback)
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The New Visibility of Religion - Studies in Religion and Cultural Hermeneutics (Paperback)
Series: Continuum Resources in Religion and Political Culture
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This is a unique collection of essays that brings together
contributions from theology, aesthetics, social and political
science, philosophy and cultural theory to examine the surge in the
public visibility of religion.Since the late 1980s, sociologists
have been drawing our attention to an international surge in the
public visibility of religion. This has increasingly challenged two
central aspects of modern western European culture: first, the
assumption that as we became more modern we would become more
secularised and religion would disappear; and secondly, that
religion and politics should occupy radically differentiated
spheres in which private conviction did not exert itself within the
public realm. The new visibility of religion is not simply a matter
of what Keppel famously called 'The Revenge of God', that is, the
resurgence of Christian, Islamic and Jewish fundamentalism.
Religion is permeating western culture in many different forms from
contemporary continental philosophy, the arts and the media, to the
rhetoric of international politicians.This collection of essays
brings together a unique collection of voices from theology,
aesthetics, social and political science, philosophy and cultural
theory in an exploration of four major aspects of this new
visibility of religion: the revision of the secularisation thesis,
the relationship between religion and violence, the new
re-enchantment of reality and the return of metaphysics. The
exploration is conducted through essays by and interviews with
figures at the forefront of reflecting upon this major cultural
shift and its implications. It is distinctively multidisciplinary,
examining the phenomenon of the rise of religion in Western Europe
from a number of interrelated perspectives.In recent years the
study of the nature and function of religion with respect to
politics has seen enormous changes. This important series provides
a range of books devoted to furthering this study, and aimed at
those studying and researching in this area across both
disciplines.Titles in this series look specifically at the
relationship between religion and political culture. Drawing upon a
broad range of religious perspectives, the series is open for
studies of historical as well as current phenomena in political
culture. It seeks not only to inform but to provoke debate at a
time when religion is gaining increasing prominence in the public
realm.
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