Religion and the Political Imagination - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521766540 ISBN 13: 9780521766548

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Religion and the Political Imagination Religion and the Political Imagination offers new ways of thinking about the urgency of religious issues in the contemporary world. Full description

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Review:

'The studies making up the collection are motivated by a shared concern to question the unilinear understanding of secularization which forms the weighty heritage of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber to social theory. In pursuit of this revisionist approach the studies that make up the collection put forward many well informed readings of the understanding and the experience of religion in the collective life of societies. Some contributions fall squarely within the field of the history of political thought ... Other studies in the collection focus on classic historical cases of secularization and the interplay of politics and religion in the life of great imperial polities.' Paschalis M. Kitromilides, History of Political Thought

Book Description:

The re-emergence of acute religious conflicts in the late twentieth century suggests that the theory of secularisation must be rethought. Utilising new approaches derived from history, philosophy, politics and anthropology, Religion and the Political Imagination offers new ways of thinking about the urgency of religious issues in the contemporary world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521766540
• ISBN 13: 9780521766548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 394
• Editor: Katznelson Ira, Stedman Jones Gareth