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The Power of the Sacred - An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment (Hardcover)
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The Power of the Sacred - An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment (Hardcover)
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Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of
modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its
original meaning when Max Weber introduced it? And can the
conventional meaning or Max Weber's view really be defended, given
the present state of knowledge about the history of religion? In
The Power of the Sacred, Hans Joas develops the fundamentals of a
new sociological theory of religion by first reconstructing
existing theories, from the eighteenth century to the present.
Through a critical reading and reassessment of key texts in the
three empirical disciplines of history, psychology, and sociology
of religion, including the works of David Hume, J.G. Herder,
Friedrich Schleiermacher, William James, Emile Durkheim, and Ernst
Troeltsch, Joas presents an understanding of religion that lays the
groundwork for a thorough study of Max Weber's views on
disenchantment. After deconstructing Weber's highly ambiguous use
of the concept, Joas proposes an alternative to the narratives of
disenchantment and secularization which have dominated debates on
the topic. He constructs a novel interpretation that takes into
account the dynamics of ever new sacralizations, their normative
evaluation in the light of a universalist morality as it first
emerged in the "Axial Age," and the dangers of the misuse of
religion in connection with the formation of power. Built upon the
human experience of self-transcendence, rather than human cognition
or cultural discourses, The Power of the Sacred challenges both
believers and non-believers alike to rethink the defining
characteristics of Western modernity.
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