Paul-François Tremlett

Religion and the Discourse on Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The point of departure for this book is the debate about whether religious studies should privilege explanation or understanding. Engaging with contemporary scholarship in the field, Tremlett argues that the study of religions has always involved the conflation of facts and values and indeed has been structured in advance by the value-saturated discourse on disenchanted modernity. He argues that phenomenological and post-modern approaches to religions lack both theoretical and methodological coherence, and in their stead proposes a Marxist approach to religions that is at once empirical and informed by values pertaining to social justice, freedom and autonomy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441132369
• Artikelnr.: 38301352

Autorenporträt

Paul-Francois Tremlett is Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. The discourse on modernity
2. The aesthetic critique of modernity
Part I
3. The phenomenology of religion
4. Nietzsche
5. Marx
6. Freud
7. Facts or values?
8. Rational history, rational speech
9. Of writing, representing and evoking
10. The aesthetics of the sacred
11. Summary  
Part II
12. On madness: Michel Foucault
13. The possession at Loudun: Michel de Certeau
14. Religion and the absence of God: Jacques Derrida
15. Summary
Part III
16.Phenomenology and post-modernism revisited
17. A return to ideology
18. Summary
Part IV
19. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index