Secularization, Social Order and World History provides a new perspective on the nature of secularization. This book demonstrates that the concepts of â religionâ and the â secularâ that are assumed in traditional accounts of secularization are not universal human categories, but specifically modern and Western ideas.
Secularization, Social Order and World History provides a new perspective on the nature of secularization. This book demonstrates that the concepts of â religionâ and the â secularâ that are assumed in traditional accounts of secularization are not universal human categories, but specifically modern and Western ideas.
Kevin N. Flatt is Professor of History and Associate Dean of Humanities at Redeemer University in Ontario, Canada, and a Research Fellow at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Societal Futures. His scholarship focuses on secularization in modern societies and the history of Protestantism in Canada. His first book, After Evangelicalism: The Sixties and the United Church of Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013), examined the transformation and decline of the country's largest Protestant denomination.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I: Religion 1. Escaping the Frame of Religion Part II: Sacred-Social Order 2. Under Heaven: Sacred Order and Social Order 3. Sacred-Social Orders in World History 4. Complexities of Sacred-Social Order 5. A Revolution in Sacred-Social Order: The Christianization of Rome Part III: Secularization 6. Western Secularization as a Revolution against Sacred-Social Order 7. The Rise of the Secular Order: An Historical Sketch 8. All under Heaven? Secularization and the World Conclusion
Introduction Part I: Religion 1. Escaping the Frame of Religion Part II: Sacred-Social Order 2. Under Heaven: Sacred Order and Social Order 3. Sacred-Social Orders in World History 4. Complexities of Sacred-Social Order 5. A Revolution in Sacred-Social Order: The Christianization of Rome Part III: Secularization 6. Western Secularization as a Revolution against Sacred-Social Order 7. The Rise of the Secular Order: An Historical Sketch 8. All under Heaven? Secularization and the World Conclusion
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