Hans Joas

Do We Need Religion? (eBook, ePUB)

On the Experience of Self-transcendence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The old assumption that modernization leads to secularization is outdated. Yet the certainty that religion is an anthropological universal that can only be suppressed by governments is also dead. Thus it is now a favorable moment for a new perspective on religion. This book takes human experiences of self-transcendence as its point of departure. Religious faith is seen as an attempt to articulate and interpret such experiences. Faith then is neither useful nor a symptom of weakness or misery, but an opening up of ways of experience. This book develops this basic idea, contrasts it with the thinking of some leading religious thinkers of our time, and relates it to the current debates about human rights and universal human dignity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317260998
• Artikelnr.: 49353452

Autorenporträt

Hans Joas, Alex Skinner

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Religious Experience
Chapter 1 Do We Need Religion?
Chapter 2 Religion in the Age of Contingency
Chapter 3 On the Articulation of Experience
Part 2 Between Theology and Social Science
Chapter 4 Sociology and the Sacred: Key Texts in the Sociology of Religion
Chapter 5 Sophisticated Fundamentalism from the Left? On John Milbank
Chapter 6 A Catholic Modernity? Faith and Knowledge in the Work of Charles Taylor
Chapter 7 God in France: Paul Ricoeur As Theoretical Mediator
Chapter 8 Post-Secular Religion? On Jürgen Habermas
Part 3 Human Dignity
Chapter 9 Decency, Justice, Dignity: On Avishai Margalit
Chapter 10 Respect for Indisposability: A Contribution to the Bioethics Debate
Chapter 11 Human Dignity: The Religion of Modernity?