The I Zation Of Society Religion And Neoliberal Post Secularism
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Author |
: Adam Possamai |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2017-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789811059421 |
ISBN-13 |
: 981105942X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The i-zation of Society, Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism by : Adam Possamai
This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism. With the help of digital capitalism, neoliberalism dominates, more and more, all aspects of life, and religion is not left unaffected. While some faith groups are embracing this hegemony, and others are simply following the signs of the times, changes have been so significant that religion is no longer what it used to be. Linking theories from Fredric Jameson and George Ritzer, this book presents the argument that our present society is going through a process of i-zation in which (1) capitalism dominates not only our outer, social lives (through, for example, global capitalism) but also our inner, personal lives, through its expansion in the digital world, facilitated by various i-technology applications; (2) the McDonaldization process has now been normalized; and (3) religiosity has been standardized. Reviewing the new inequalities present in this i-society, the book considers their impact on Jurgen Habermas’s project of post-secularism, and appraises the roles that various religions may have in supporting and/or countering this process. It concludes by arguing that Habermas’s post-secular project will occur but that, paradoxically, the religious message(s) will be instrumentalized for capitalist purposes.
Author |
: Gustaaf Geeraerts |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2017-07-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351497619 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351497618 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Post-Secular Society by : Gustaaf Geeraerts
Post-Secular Society argues for several characteristics of the secular: the experience of living in a secular age and the experience of living without religion as a normal condition. Religion in the West is often seen as marked by both innovation and disarray. In spite of differing approaches and perspectives of secularization, rational choice and de-secularization, many scholars agree that the West is experiencing a general "resurgence" of religion across most Western societies. Post-Secular Society discusses the changes in religion related to globalization and New Age forms of popular religion. The contributors review religion that is rooted in the globalized political economy and the relationship of post-secularism to popular consumer culture. Also reviewed is innovative discourse as a religious belief system, theories of the post-secular, religious, and spiritual well-being, and healing practices in Finland and environmentalism. This paperback edition includes a new preface by Peter Nynas.
Author |
: Philip Gorski |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 381 |
Release |
: 2012-03-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814738726 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814738729 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Post-secular in Question by : Philip Gorski
"This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today's world. Foregrounding the most urgent and compelling questions raised by the place of religion in the social sciences, past and present, The Post-Secular in Question restores religion to a more central place in social scientific thinking about the world, helping to move scholarship 'beyond unbelief.'"--book jacket.
Author |
: David Morris |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 2021-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820360638 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820360635 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Public Religions in the Future World by : David Morris
Public Religions in the Future World is the first book to map the utopian terrain of the political-religious movements of the past four decades. Examining a politically diverse set of utopian fictions, this book cuts across the usual Right/Left political divisions to show a surprising convergence: each political-religious vision imagines a revived world of care and community over and against the economization and fragmentation of neoliberalism. Understanding these religions as utopian movements in reaction to neoliberalism, Public Religions invites us to rethink the bases of religious identification and practice. Offering new insights on texts from the Left Behind series to the novels of Octavia Butler, Public Religions shows that the utopian energy of the present opens new opportunities for political organizing and genuine, lasting community building. Public Religions in the Future World presents a literary history of the political-religious present, arguing that the power of public religion lies in the utopian visions that underlie religious beliefs. It shows that contemporary literary utopianism is deeply inflected with religious ideas, with the visions, values, and ambitions of Christianity, Islam, nature mysticism, and other traditions. Further, Public Religions demonstrates that this utopianism’s religiosity is in turn politically inflected, that it resonates with and underwrites a range of competing political projects: those of imperialism, globalization, neoliberal capitalism, deep ecology, and the pro-migration movement. David Morris constructs a working theory of how religion makes large-scale interventions in political debates. The novels in his study draw on religious traditions to articulate visions, programs, or missions for achieving some version of an improved world. In doing so, they undertake the work of literary postmodernism: to represent globality, to recover the voices of the underrepresented, and to imagine a future that escapes the destructiveness of global capitalism.
Author |
: François Gauthier |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2019-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000725971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000725979 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion, Modernity, Globalisation by : François Gauthier
This book argues that the last four decades have seen profound and important changes in the nature and social location of religion, and that those changes are best understood when cast against the associated rise of consumerism and neoliberalism. These transformations are often misunderstood and underestimated, namely because the study of religion remains dependent on the secularisation paradigm which can no longer provide a sufficiently fruitful framework for analysis. The book challenges diagnoses of transience and fragmentation by proposing an alternative narrative and set of concepts for understanding the global religious landscape. The present situation is framed as the result of a shift from a National-Statist to a Global-Market regime of religion. Adopting a holistic perspective that breaks with the current specialisation tendencies, it charts the emergence of the State and the Market as institutions and ideas related to social order, as well as their changing rapports from classical modernity to today. Breaking with a tradition of Western-centeredness, the book offers probing enquiries into Indonesia and a synthesis of global and Western trends. This long-awaited book offers a bold new vision for the social scientific study of religion and will be of great interest to all scholars of the Sociology and Anthropology of religion, as well as Religious Studies in general.
Author |
: Monica K. Miller |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2023-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316511534 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316511537 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Science of QAnon by : Monica K. Miller
Social science theory is used to explain the attraction and spread of the unique conspiracy group QAnon.
Author |
: Garry W. Trompf |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 833 |
Release |
: 2018-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317201847 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317201841 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gnostic World by : Garry W. Trompf
The Gnostic World is an outstanding guide to Gnosticism, written by a distinguished international team of experts to explore Gnostic movements from the distant past until today. These themes are examined across sixty-seven chapters in a variety of contexts, from the ancient pre-Christian to the contemporary. The volume considers the intersection of Gnosticism with Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Indic practices and beliefs, and also with new religious movements, such as Theosophy, Scientology, Western Sufism, and the Nation of Islam. This comprehensive handbook will be an invaluable resource for religious studies students, scholars, and researchers of Gnostic doctrine and history.
Author |
: Andrew Yancey |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2020-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781725256026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1725256029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transforming Enterprise? by : Andrew Yancey
How does Christian faith integrate with capitalism? This question has been at the heart of Christian ethics for more than three hundred years, but rarely as complex and important as now. The polarizing influence of consumer capitalism has extended into virtually every domain of human life. On the one hand, capitalism has contributed to increases in standards of living and life expectancy, especially among those in extreme poverty. On the other, it has exacerbated income inequality, environmental damages, and social displacement. For contemporary American evangelical theology, this is problematic. It has long been on a quest to show that Christian faith harmonizes with capitalistic enterprise. But can faith harness the transformational power of consumer capitalism without being affected by its excesses? For many, the election of Donald Trump as president has revealed a great divide within American evangelicalism about the links between Christianity, economic power, and moral character. Working from the field of academic practical theology in interdisciplinary dialogue with business management ethics, Transforming Enterprise? shows why and how a reframing of the relationship between Christian faith and capitalistic enterprise is needed in the contemporary postsecular milieu.
Author |
: Richard K. Payne |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2022-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350228344 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350228346 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Buddhism under Capitalism by : Richard K. Payne
This book argues that Buddhism has spread due to globalized capitalism, and explores how capitalism is also impacting Buddhists and Buddhism today. Edited by two leading scholars in Buddhist studies, the book examines how capitalism and neo-liberalism have shaped global perceptions of Buddhism, as well as specific local practices and attitudes. It examines the institutional practices that sustained the spread of Buddhism for two and a half millennia, and the adaptation of Buddhist institutions in contemporary, global economic systems-particularly in Europe and the United States over the last century and half. These innovative essays on the interfaces between Buddhism and capitalism will prompt readers to rethink the connection between Buddhism and secular society. Case studies include digital capitalism, tourism, and monasticism, and are drawn from the USA, Tibet, China, Japan, and Thailand.
Author |
: Stefanie Knauss |
Publisher |
: Alexander Darius Ornella |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783825807757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3825807754 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconfigurations by : Stefanie Knauss
From "Once Upon a Time in the West" to "Moulin Rouge", from Ghanaian video-movies to Japanese Manga, from Christian symbolism in advertising to the mythic significance of female messiah figures, from the relationship of the arts and theology to the role of the audience in the meaningmaking process, this book provides a feast for anyone wanting to explore the interconnectivity of religion, media and society.