Religion

Fordham University Press

2008

1 v. (xiv-1006 p.)

The future of the religious past

9780823227242

Introduction: Why still "religion"? / Hent de Vries --pt. I. "What is religion?" Public religions revisited / José Casanova --Provincializing God? : provocations from an anthropology of religion / Michael Lambek --Translating gods : religion as a factor of cultural (un)translatability / Jan Assmann --The Christian invention of Judaism : the Theodosian empire and the rabbinic refusal of religion / Daniel Boyarin --The future of the religious past / Charles Taylor --Religion as memory : reference to tradition and the constitution of a heritage of belief in modern societies / Danièle Hervieu-Léger --If this be magic ... : excursions into contemporary Hindu lives / Veena Das --pt. II. Religion and philosophy. Metaphysics and phenomenology : a relief for theology / Jean-Luc Marion --What no one else can do in my place : a conversation with Emmanuel Levinas / Emmanuel Levinas and France Guwy --Abraham, the other / Jacques Derrida --From French Algeria to Jerusalem : an itinerary / Henri Atlan --Nature as religious force in Eriugena and Emerson / Willemien Otten --Inheriting the wound : religion and philosophy in Stanley Cavell / Asja Szafraniec --A deconstruction of monotheism / Jean-Luc Nancy --After theism / H.J. Adriaanse --pt. III. Methods of instruction and comparison. Teaching religious facts in secular schools / Régis Debray --Secularization : notes toward a genealogy / Jan Bremmer --An alternative view of Christianity : a Troeltschean perspective / Arie L. Molendijk --As close as a scholar can get : exploring a one-field approach to the study of religion / André Droogers --"Religion" in public debates : who defines, for what purposes? / Willem B. Drees --The field of religion and ecology : addressing the environmental crisis and challenging faiths / Tony Watling --pt. IV. Emerging contexts. The politics of love and its enemies / David Nirenberg --Religious indifference : on the nature of medieval Christianity / M.B. Pranger --Christ at large : iconography and territoriality in postwar Ambon / Patricia Spyer --Renewing time : charismatic renewal in a conservative Reformed church / Peter Versteeg --pt. V. Religion, politics, and law. Neutralizing religion; or, what is the opposite of "faith-base"? / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan --Reflections on blasphemy and secular criticism / Talal Asad --Is liberalism a religion? / Michael Warner --Social democracy and religion : the reverse breakthrough / Job Cohen --Toward a politics of singularity : protection and projection / Samuel Weber --pt. VI. Materiality, mediatization, experience. Troubles with materiality : the ghost of fetishism in the nineteenth century / Tomoko Masuzawa --Salva

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