Religion and the Discourse on Modernity

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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   ...

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• Authors: Paul-Francois Tremlett, Paul-François Tremlett, Paul-Franois Tremlett
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2009
• EAN: 9780826498236
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-9823-6
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Continuum Advances in Religiou; Continuum Advances in Religiou; Continuum Advances in Religious Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy of religion