Redeeming Anthropology - A Theological Critique of a Modern Science

This book assembles a paradigm of anthropodom¿anthropology governed and constituted by sovereign secular reason as a progeny of the Enlightenment¿in order to explore existent and potential relations with its ostensible other, theology.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Thoth: Immuring Anthropology from Theology


• 2: Eucharist: Theology Seeping into Anthropology


• 3: Hubal: Idolatry in Anthropology


• Conclusions: Theology Revitalizing Anthropology


• Bibliography

About the author

Khaled Furani is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. His research interests lie in secularism, poetics, social theory, history of anthropology, Palestine, and the modern condition. He is the author of Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry (2012).

Summary

This book assembles a paradigm of anthropodom--anthropology governed and constituted by sovereign secular reason as a progeny of the Enlightenment--in order to explore existent and potential relations with its ostensible other, theology.

Product details

• Authors: Khaled Furani, Khaled (Associate Professor Furani, Furani Khaled
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780198796435
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879643-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Social & cultural anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist and secular alternatives to religion