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This work examines public discourse during the America
Revolutionary era and offers new insights into faith communication
and public theology in America. The analysis is focused on the
basic synthesis of faith and freedom and the religious elements in
this synthesis. These elements are not tied back to Church
teachings, but instead, interpreted as faith communications within
the discourse of revolution.
Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) is widely recognized as one of the most
important contributors to the study of religions at the beginning
of the 20th century. His book, The Idea of the Holy, became
something of a sensation in its time, and his account of numinous
experience as a mysterium tremendum et fascinans had an effect that
few other ideas in the study of religions have had. His vocabulary
broke through narrow disciplinary bounds and was taken up by people
in a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the social
sciences. However, since the 1960s, Otto has been increasingly
overlooked and neglected. As thinkers and scholars have turned in
many other intellectual directions, they have tended to see Otto as
representative of a past to be rejected. This volume gathers
together essays by scholars from a variety of perspectives -
theology, religious studies, intellectual history, and various
cultural studies - to address the question of what Otto's legacy
for the 21st century might be. The first section of the volume
addresses Otto's ideas and their contexts. Part Two turns to the
area that Otto, more than any other German theologian or
philosopher of religion, opened up: an engagement with the world of
religions. Otto's influence, however, has never been confined to
systematic religious thought and the study of religions. His ideas
have resonated much more widely. Although it is impossible to treat
this range of application completely, the essays in Part Three aim
to provide a hint of this wider impact, in architecture (Britton),
poetry (Furey), politics (Jerryson), and the contemporary world
more generally (Lauster). This volume is not an attempt to revivify
Otto, nor is it intended as a magisterial statement about Otto's
significance today. Rather, it issues an invitation to those with
an interest not just in religions but also in cultural phenomena
more broadly to take another look at Rudolf Otto and his ideas.
Perhaps they will find more than they expect, and something that
they can use.
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