Formations of Belief - Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular (Hardcover)

For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life-and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. Formations of Belief brings together many of today's leading historians to shed critical light on secularism's origins, its present crisis, and whether it is as antithetical to religion as it is so often made out to be. Formations of Belief offers a more nuanced understanding of the origins of secularist thought, demonstrating how Reformed Christianity and the Enlightenment were not the sole vessels of a worldview based on rationalism and individual autonomy. Taking readers from late antiquity to the contemporary era, the contributors show how secularism itself can be a form of belief and yet how its crisis today has been brought on by its apparent incapacity to satisfy people's spiritual needs. They explore the rise of the humanistic study of religion in Europe, Jewish messianism, atheism and last rites in the Soviet Union, the cult of the saints in colonial Mexico, religious minorities and Islamic identity in Pakistan, the neuroscience of religion, and more. Based on the Shelby Cullom Davis Center Seminars at Princeton University, this incisive book features illuminating essays by Peter Brown, Yaacob Dweck, Peter E. Gordon, Anthony Grafton, Brad S. Gregory, Stefania Pastore, Caterina Pizzigoni, Victoria Smolkin, Max Weiss, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman.

General

Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University
Release date:	September 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Philip Nord • Katja Guenther • Max Weiss
Contributors:	Anthony Grafton • Yaacob Dweck
Introduction by:	Philip Nord
Contributors:	Stefania Pastore • Peter Brown • Caterina Pizzigoni • Victoria Smolkin
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-0-691-19075-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion Promotions
LSN:	0-691-19075-5
Barcode:	9780691190754

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