Narratives of Secularization (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Harrison, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book identifies the major genres of the history of secularization in the West, and explores their historical contexts, normative commitments, and tendential purposes, bringing analytical clarity to ongoing debates about secularization. It was originally published as a special issue of the Intellectual History Review journal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351348959
• Artikelnr.: 57412867

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Narratives of secularization 1. Secularisation: process, program, and historiography 2. The one or the many? Narrating and evaluating Western secularization 3. Science and secularization 4. A heavenly poise: radical religion and the making of the Enlightenment 5. Narratives of de-secularization in international relations 6. The History of Political Thought as secular genealogy: the case of liberty in early modern England 7. The politics of disenchantment: Marcel Gauchet and the French struggle with secularization 8. Is absolute secularity conceivable?

Rezensionen

A scholarly road map designed to introduce newcomers to the many and varied contours of the debate surrounding why, how, and when western civilization turned from an "age of religion" towards an equally encompassing "age of secularity."

S. C. Williams

A scholarly road map designed to introduce newcomers to the many and varied contours of the debate surrounding why, how, and when western civilization turned from an "age of religion" towards an equally encompassing "age of secularity."

S. C. Williams