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SCM Core Text (Paperback)
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SCM Core Text (Paperback)
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The SCM Core Text on Religion and Modern Thought examines in detail
the relationship between religion and modern and post-modern
thought and culture. The book provides an introduction to the
extremely wide variety of forms of religious thought and examines
how, in the West, adherents of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have
responded to the impact of modernity upon religion, either by
attempting to restructure their religious belief systems or by
asserting a uniquely modern form of religious 'traditionalism'. The
book focuses on the encounter between the Abrahamic faiths and
modern thought, and also on intellectual and cultural developments
of ideas that have had ' or look set to have ' the biggest impact.
The book begins by tackling the difficulties in defining terms such
as religion, and what qualifies a person as being religious. It
also sets out a brief background to the history and development,
the key characteristics and core beliefs of each of the three
Abrahamic faiths. Following these scene-setting chapters, each
section of the book goes on to look at a different theme germane to
the encounter between the traditional Abrahamic religions and
modern thought. The themes discussed are; the relationship between
religious faith and modern philosophy; the challenges of religious
language; natural science including the effects of psychology on
religion; religious pluralism, religious inclusivism and religious
exclusivism; the relationship between politics, religion and the
environment; post-holocaust Jewish theologies; theologies of
liberation, black theology, eco-theology, feminist theology and
eco-feminist theology; fundamentalism in all three of the faiths;
secularisation; the effects of post-modernism and how Christianity,
Judaism and Islam look in a post-modern world, analysing the
characteristics of post-modernity and considering the
re-interpretations of religion in a post-modern world.
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