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The contemporary world is riven by antagonisms between the religious and secular realms of society. But is this tension necessary?
List of contents
Acknowledgement
About the Authors
Introduction, MICHAEL R. OTT
Foreword: The Siebert Manifesto of the Critical Theory: An Appreciation, DENIS R. JANZ
1. The Future of Religion: Toward the City of Being, RUDOLF J. SIEBERT
2. The Migration of Religious Longing for the “Other” into the Historical Materialist Critical Theory of Utopia in the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno and Ernst Bloch, MICHAEL R. OTT
3. Bilderverbot and Utopia: God without Image – Other World Unannounced, DUSTIN BYRD
4. Theo-Utopian Hearing: Ernst Bloch on Music, ROLAND BOER
5. What is the Meaning of “Culture”? Some Comments and Perspectives, GOTTFRIED KÜENZLEN
6. Towards a Global Ethos? Notes on the Philosophy of Encounter, JAN FENNEMA
7. On the Origin of Religious Discourse, FRANCIS BRASSARD
8. The Future of Faith, the Subaltern Scientia: Lonergan and Aquinas, DONALD DEVON III
9. Religion in the Trap of Globalization, MISLAV KUKOC
10. Bahá'í Religion as a New Religious Movement?, BRANKO ANCIC
11. Religious Freedom in Contemporary Croatian Society (From 1997 to 2008), NEVEN DUVNJAK & IVICA SOKOL
12. Religiosity and Attitudes Towards Sexuality and Marriage in Croatia, DINKA MARINOVIC JEROLIMOV
13. Politicization of the Religious Environment in Ukraine, ALEKSANDRA BARANOVA
Appendix
References
Index
About the author
Michael R. Ott Ph.D. (1998), Western Michigan University, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University. He has published journal articles, book chapters, and books on the Critical Theory of Religion, including The Future of Religion: Toward a Reconciled Society (Haymarket 2010).
Summary
The Dialectics of the Religious and the Secular: Studies on the Future of Religion contains the work of fifteen international scholars who have wrestled with the question of the relevancy, meaning, and future of religion within the context of the increasing antagonisms between the religious and secular realms of modern civil society and its globalization. Through their chosen topics in analyzing these issues in the 20th and 21st centuries, each author also indicates the possibility of mitigating if not preventing the continuation of this antagonism by historically moving toward a more reconciled and humane future global society.
Contributors are: Branko Ancic, Aleksandra Baranova, Roland T. Boer, Francis Brassard, Dustin Byrd, Donald Devon III, Neven Duvnjak, Jan W. R. Fennema, Denis R. Janz, Dinka Marinovic Jerolimov, Gottfried Küenzlen, Mislav Kukoc, Michael R. Ott, Rudolf J. Siebert, and Ivica Sokol.
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