Charles Davis

Religion and the Making of Society

Essays in Social Theology
Herausgeber: Forrester, Duncan; Kee, Alistair

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book a leading contemporary theologian investigates the relation between religion and society. Davis begins with the thesis that society is a product of human agency; this raises immediately the questions of the meaning of modernity and the function of religion in that context. The linguistic and pragmatic orientation of modern philosophy and social theory lead to a discussion of religious language and of praxis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780521447898
• ISBN-10: 0521447895
• Artikelnr.: 21988697

Inhaltsangabe

General editors' preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: from the secular to the supernatural
Part I. Society, Religion and Human Agency: 1. Society and the critique of modernity
2. The present social function of religion
3. From inwardness to social action: the transformation of the political
4. The Christian question to radicalism
Part II. Praxis, Narrative and Religious Language: 5. Theology and praxis
6. Revelation, historical continuity and the rationality of tradition
7. The political use and misuse of religious language
Part III. From the Modern Subject to the Post-Modern Self: 8. Our new religious identity
9. Post-modernity and the formation of the self
Part IV. The Option for the Future: 10. What remains of socialism as a moral and religious ideal
11. Communicative rationality and the grounding of religious hope
Index.