The secular faith controversy

Continuum

2001

113 p.

Issues in contemporary religion

9780826449252

Introduction: A model of society, consciousness and religion -- pt. I. The religious situation in three dimensions. 1. Problems. Prelude: common misconceptions and three groups. 1. For practitioners of religion: explicating the implicit. 2. For leaders of religion: valuing the occasional. 3. For students of religion: gauging the transcendent. Postlude: the disciples' dilemma. 2. Reactions. Prelude: 'modernizing' Methodism. 1. Denying identity: conformity, insincerity and apathy. 2. Maximizing difference: ritual, dogma and culture. 3. Ignoring evidence: categories, experience and humanness. Postlude: changing meaning. 3. Alternatives. Prelude: consensus among the faithful. 1. In general: acknowledging, cooperating, communing

When God disappears from a secular society, religious beliefs surface in other non-religious sectors of society, e.g. sport as religion. Edward Bailey argues that within and beneath everyday practices of non-religious pursuits lie hidden religious-ethical assumptions that mostly go unnoticed, that is, i.e. implicit rather than explicit. In this volume Bailey sets out what is meant by 'implicit religion,' and proposes a methodology for studying implicit religion and how it can encourage greater understanding between secular and religious spheres

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