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Narratives of Disenchantment and Secularization - Critiquing Max Weber's Idea of Modernity (Paperback)
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Narratives of Disenchantment and Secularization - Critiquing Max Weber's Idea of Modernity (Paperback)
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What does it really mean to be modern? The contributors to this
collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber's
historical idea of disenchantment and to develop further his
understanding of what the contested relationship between modernity
and religion represents. The approach is distinctive because it
focuses on disenchantment as key to understanding those aspects of
modern society and culture that Weber diagnosed. This is in
opposition to approaches that focus on secularization, narrowly
construed as the rise of secularism or the divide between religion
and politics, and that then conflate this with modernization as a
whole. Other novel contributions are discussions of temporality -
meaning the sense of time or of historical change that posits a
separation between an ostensibly secular modernity and its
religious past - and of the manner in which such a sense of time is
constructed and disseminated through narratives that themselves may
resemble religious myths. It reflects the idea that disenchantment
is a narrative with either Enlightenment, Romantic, or Christian
roots, thereby developing a conversation between critical studies
in the field of secularism (such as those of Talal Asad and Gil
Anidjar) and conceptual history approaches to secularization and
modernity (such as those of Karl Loewith and Reinhart Koselleck),
and in the process creates something that is more than merely the
sum of its parts.
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