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Civil Society, Civil Religion
Contributor(s): Shanks, Andrew (Author)
ISBN: 0631197583     ISBN-13: 9780631197584
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $166.27  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: September 1995
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Annotation: "Civil Society, Civil Religion" pioneers an essentially new genre of theology: a form of pure "civil" theology, on a systematic basis.
Such theology is intended as a theory of "critical" civil religion. In the past civil religion has always been understood as the religious self-expression of a particular state-establishment. But with the increasing organization of international civil society new possibilities open up. Andrew Shanks argues that a truly liberating civil theology must articulate the spiritual basis for what philosopher Jan Patocka called the solidarity of the shaken - overlapping with all manner of confessional loyalties. It would thus be a response to revelation in the "whole" of history, but above all in those memories that remain most immediately traumatic and disturbing to us with regard to our identities as citizens. Each confessional tradition, for instance, has its own particular angle on the experience of twentieth century totalitarianism. But what, in more general terms, would consitute an ideal culture of proper remembrancing here?

Andrew Shanks also considers more mainstream Christian-confessional criticisms of modernity, such as those of Kierkegaard and Barth, and explores the broader requirements of "the solidarity of the shaken," with particular reference to Nietzsche, Levinas and, above all, Hegel.
" Civil Society, Civil Religion" is an important and original book, in significant respects carrying forward the debate initiated by John Milbank's" Theology and Social Theory," albeit in a very different way. It should be required reading for academics and students in the fields of theology, religion and political philosophy.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Reference
- Religion | Religion, Politics & State
- Religion | Theology
Dewey: 261.7
LCCN: 94045126
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.20 lbs) 264 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Civil Society, Civil Religion pioneers an essentially new genre of theology: a form of pure civil theology, on a systematic basis. It is an important and original book, in significant respects carrying forward the debate initiated by John Milbank's Theology and Social Theory, albeit in a very different way.