Overview
- Leading Australasian philosophers of religion take up and advance the current debates about secularisation and religion
- Explores extremely timely topics in contemporary political and social debates: the new atheisms, political theology, and the impact of new scientific developments on traditional religions
- Particular focus on radical criticisms of modern secular liberal societies in the thought of Charles Taylor and the Radical Orthodoxy school of theology
Part of the book series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures (SCPT, volume 5)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Church and State
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New Atheism and the Post-Secular Theoretical Turn
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The Secular Age or Post-Secularism
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume explores timely topics in contemporary political and social debates, including: the new atheisms, the debate between Habermas and the Pope on the fate of modernity, and the impact of new scientific developments on traditional religions.
This book collects articles first presented at the Deakin University "World in Crisis" workshop, held November 2010 by leading Australasian philosophers and theologians. It addresses questions raised by the recent, much-touted return to religion, including possible reasons for the return and its practical, political, and intellectual prospects.
Secularisation and Their Debates is not afraid to provide answers to such questions as:
- Is religion only ever a force of political reaction in modernity, or are there resources in it which progressive, even secular social movements, could engage with or adopt?
- Are the new atheisms, or on the opposite side, the new fundamentalisms, really novel phenomena, or has religion only ever been artificially sidelined in the modern Western states?
- Has modern liberalism only really been kidding itself about its non-doctrinal neutrality between different faiths, and if so, what should follow?
This book will appeal to researchers in the philosophy of religion, social sciences, political philosophy, and anthropology.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Secularisations and Their Debates
Book Subtitle: Perspectives on the Return of Religion in the Contemporary West
Editors: Matthew Sharpe, Dylan Nickelson
Series Title: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7116-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7115-4Published: 12 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0558-3Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7116-1Published: 30 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-1107
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1115
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 235
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Social Sciences, general, Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Anthropology, History of Philosophy