Formations of Belief - Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular

Zusatztext "Anyone inserted in the dialectical relations between religion and modernity should consult this thought-provoking volume.—Yontan Glazer-Eytan, Renaissance Quarterly " Informationen zum Autor Philip Nord is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. His books include France 1940: Defending the Republic . Katja Guenther is associate professor of history at Princeton. She is the author of Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines . Max Weiss is associate professor of history and Near Eastern studies at Princeton. His books include In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law! Shi'ism! and the Making of Modern Lebanon . Klappentext For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life--and secularization no longer appears so inevitable.able. A selection of eleven essays on the theme of belief and unbelief presented at Princeton’s Davis Center Seminar series. Zusammenfassung For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life--and secularization no longer appears so inevitable.able.

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• Authors: Katja Weiss Guenther, Philip Guenther Nord
• Assisted by: Katja Guenther (Editor), Professor Katja Guenther (Editor), Philip Nord (Editor), Max Weiss (Editor), Weiss Max (Editor), Philip Nord (Introduction), Katja Guenther (Afterword)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780691190754
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19075-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University; Publications in Partnership wi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Religion & politics, General and world history, Religion and Politics, History and Archaeology