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Informationen zum Autor Robert A. Yelle is Professor for the Theory and Method of Religious Studies and Chair of the Interfaculty Program in Religious Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. Lorenz Trein is Assistant to the Chair for the Theory and Method of Religious Studies, Interfaculty Program Study of Religion, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. Zusammenfassung What does it really mean to be modern?The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber’s historical idea of disenchantment and to develop further his understanding of what the contested relationship between modernity and religion represents. The approach is distinctive because it focuses on disenchantment as key to understanding those aspects of modern society and culture that Weber diagnosed. This is in opposition to approaches that focus on secularization , narrowly construed as the rise of secularism or the divide between religion and politics, and that then conflate this with modernization as a whole.Other novel contributions are discussions of temporality - meaning the sense of time or of historical change that posits a separation between an ostensibly secular modernity and its religious past - and of the manner in which such a sense of time is constructed and disseminated through narratives that themselves may resemble religious myths. It reflects the idea that disenchantment is a narrative with either Enlightenment, Romantic, or Christian roots, thereby developing a conversation between critical studies in the field of secularism (such as those of Talal Asad and Gil Anidjar) and conceptual history approaches to secularization and modernity (such as those of Karl Löwith and Reinhart Koselleck), and in the process creates something that is more than merely the sum of its parts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Dialectics of Disenchantment: The Devaluation of the Objective World and the Revaluation of Subjective Religiosity Hans Kippenberg Max Weber and the Rationalization of Magic Jason A. Josephson-Storm Science as a Commodity: Disenchantment and Conspicuous Consumption Egil Asprem Multiple Times of Disenchantment and Secularization Lorenz Trein The Disenchanted Enchantments of the Modern Imagination and “Fictionalism” Michael Saler Narratives of Disenchantment, Narratives of Secularization: Radical Enlightenment and the Rise of the Illiberal Secular Jonathan Israel “An Age of Miracles”: Disenchantment as a Secularized Theological Narrative Robert A. Yelle Counter-Narratives to Secularization: Merits and Limits of Genealogy Critique Monika Wohlrab-Sahr List of Contributors Index...
