Hans Joas ( Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion

The Power of the Sacred

An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment
Übersetzer: Skinner, Alex

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Power of the Sacred, Hans Joas develops a new sociological theory of religion by reconstructing existing scientific theories of religion, from the eighteenth century to the present. Through a critical reading and reasssessment of key texts, Joas proposes an alternative to the narratives of disenchantment and secularization which have dominated debates on the topic. He further offers the most thorough reconstruction of the meaning of this concept, demonstrates how problematic it is for an appropriate understanding of religion in modernity, and presents the basic features of an alternative.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 166mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9780190933272
• ISBN-10: 0190933275
• Artikelnr.: 60362825

Autorenporträt

Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Visiting Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Some of his other books in English include G.H. Mead, A Contemporary Re-examination of His Thought, Pragmatism and Social Theory, The Creativity of Action, The Genesis of Values, War and Modernity, The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights, and Faith as an Option: Possible Futures for Christianity. He has also published two books with Wolfgang Knoebl: Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures and War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present and has edited several volumes, including The Axial Age and Its Consequences (with Robert Bellah).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* Chapter 1. History of Religion as Critique of Religion? David Hume
and the Consequences
* Chapter 2. Religious Experience and the Theory of Signs
* Chapter 3. Ritual and the Sacred. On the Anthropology of Ideal
Formation
* Chapter 4. Multiple Forms of Ideal Formation or Process of
Disenchantment? Attempts at Synthesis by Ernst Troeltsch and Max
Weber
* Chapter 5. Transcendence as Reflexive Sacredness. The 'Axial Age' as
a Turning Point in Religious History
* Chapter 6. Fields of Tension. A New Interpretation of Max Weber's
'Intermediate Reflection'
* Chapter 7. The Sacred and Power. Collective Self-Sacralization and
Ways of Overcoming it
* Bibliography
* Index