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Secularization and the World Religions
Contributor(s): Joas, Hans (Editor), Wiegandt, Klaus (Editor)
ISBN: 1846311888     ISBN-13: 9781846311888
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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Published: September 2009
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Annotation: This volume concerns itself with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. Dealing with the major religious traditions and their explicit or implicit ideas about the individual, social, and political order, as well as offering an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas, "Secularization and the World Religions" analyzes the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion--as well as the role of the natural sciences--in a global perspective. Contributors include such internationally renowned scholars as Winfried Brugger, Jose Casanova, Hans Joas, and Hans Kippenberg.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology Of Religion
Dewey: 200
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.13" W x 5.25" (1.12 lbs) 256 pages
 
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The question of religion, its contemporary and future significance and its role in society and state is currently perceived as an urgent one by many and is widely discussed within the public sphere. But it has also long been one of the core topics of the historically oriented social sciences.
The immense stock of knowledge furnished by the history of religion and religious studies, theology, sociology and history has to be introduced into the public conscience today. This can promote greater awareness of the contemporary global religious situation and its links with politics and
economics and counter rash syntheses such as the clash of civilizations. This volume is concerned with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. The first part deals with major religious traditions and their explicit or
implicit ideas about the individual, social and political order. The second part gives an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas. Additional contributions analyze the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion in a global perspective and the role
of the natural sciences in the process of secularization. The contributors are internationally renowned scholars like Winfried Brugger, José Casanova, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Hans Joas, Hans G. Kippenberg, Gudrun Krämer, David Martin, Eckart Otto and Rudolf Wagner.