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Recognition and Religion - A Historical and Systematic Study (Hardcover)
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Recognition and Religion - A Historical and Systematic Study (Hardcover)
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During the last twenty years, the theory of recognition has become
an established field of philosophy and social studies. Variants of
this theory often promise applications to the burning political
issues of current society, such as the challenges of
multiculturalism, group identity, and conflicts between ideologies
and religions. The seminal works of this trend employ Hegelian
ideas to tackle the problem of modernity. Although some recent
studies also investigate the pre-Hegelian roots of recognition,
this concept is normally considered to be a product of the secular
modernity of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recognition
and Religion: A Historical and Systematic Study challenges this
assumption and claims that important intellectual roots of the
concept and conceptions of recognition are found in much earlier
religious sources. Risto Saarinen outlines the first intellectual
history of religious recognition, stretching from the New Testament
to present day. He connects the history of religion with
philosophical approaches, arguing that philosophers owe a
considerable historical and conceptual debt to the religious
processes of recognition. At the same time, religious recognition
has a distinctive profile that differs from philosophy in some
important respects. Saarinen undertakes a systematic elaboration of
the insights provided by the tradition of religious recognition. He
proposes that theology and philosophy can make creative use of the
long history of religious recognition.
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