Religion and the Discourse on Modernity (Continuum Advances in Religious Studies)

Tremlett, Paul-François

Continuum Publishing Corporation（2012/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 170 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781441172341
• DDC分類 210.1

Full Description

The point of departure for this book is the debate about whether religious studies should privilege explanation or understanding. Engaging with contemporary scholarship in the field, Tremlett argues that the study of religions has always involved the conflation of facts and values and indeed has been structured in advance by the value-saturated discourse on disenchanted modernity. He argues that phenomenological and post-modern approaches to religions lack both theoretical and methodological coherence, and in their stead proposes a Marxist approach to religions that is at once empirical and informed by values pertaining to social justice, freedom and autonomy.

Contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The discourse on modernity; 2. The aesthetic critique of modernity; Part I; 3. The phenomenology of religion; 4. Nietzsche; 5. Marx; 6. Freud; 7. Facts or values?; 8. Rational history, rational speech; 9. Of writing, representing and evoking; 10. The aesthetics of the sacred; 11. Summary; Part II; 12. On madness: Michel Foucault; 13. The possession at Loudun: Michel de Certeau; 14. Religion and the absence of God: Jacques Derrida; 15. Summary; Part III.; 16. Phenomenology and post-modernism revisited; 17. A return to ideology; 18. Summary; Part IV; 19. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.