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Beyond Religion
Author | : Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780547636351 |
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"Beyond Religion" is a stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels--including a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.
Beyond Religion and the Secular
Author | : Wayne Hudson |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2022-11-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781350331730 |
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Deploying a distinctive disaggregative approach to the study of 'religion', this volume shows that spiritual movements with extensive counterfactual beliefs have been much more creative than one might expect. Specifically, Wayne Hudson explores the creativity of six spiritual movements: the Bahá'ís, a Persian movement; Soka Gakkai, a Japanese movement; Ananda Marga and the Brahma Kumaris, two reformed Hindu movements; and two controversial American churches, The Church Universal and Triumphant and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most of these movements have counterintuitive features that have led Western scholars making Enlightenment assumptions to dismiss them as irrational and/or inconsequential. However, this book reveals that these movements have responded to modernity in ways that are creative and practical, resulting in a wide range of social, educational and cultural initiatives. Building on research surrounding the ways in which spiritual movements engage in cultural productions, this book takes the international research in a new direction by exploring the utopian intentionality such cultural productions reveal.
Religion
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Author | : Phil Zuckerman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Secularism |
ISBN | : 0028663616 |
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This book offers a "state of the art" look at secular life that is focused mainly on, although certainly not limited to, the contemporary American context, covering the secular life beyond religion as well as its intersection with religion.
Beyond the Secular West
Author | : Akeel Bilgrami |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2016-03-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780231541015 |
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What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of colonial rule? How does secularism comport with local religious cultures in Africa, and how does it work with local forms of power and governance in Latin America? Has modern secularism evolved organically, or is it even necessary, and has it always meant progress? A vital extension of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, in which he exhaustively chronicled the emergence of secularism in Latin Christendom, this anthology applies Taylor's findings to secularism's global migration. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Rajeev Bhargava, Akeel Bilgrami, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Sudipta Kaviraj, Claudio Lomnitz, Alfred Stepan, Charles Taylor, and Peter van der Veer each explore the transformation of Western secularism beyond Europe, and the collection closes with Taylor's response to each essay. What began as a modern reaction to—as well as a stubborn extension of—Latin Christendom has become a complex export shaped by the world's religious and political systems. Brilliantly alternating between intellectual and methodological approaches, this volume fosters a greater engagement with the phenomenon across disciplines.
A Secular Age Beyond the West
Author | : Mirjam Künkler,John Madeley,Shylashri Shankar |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781108417716 |
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This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Rethinking Secularism
Author | : Craig Calhoun,Mark Juergensmeyer,Jonathan VanAntwerpen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-09-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780199796748 |
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This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The volume will introduce readers to some of the most compelling new conceptual and theoretical understandings of secularism and the secular, while also examining socio-political trends involving the relationship between the religious and the secular from a variety of locations across the globe. In recent decades, the public has become increasingly aware of the important role religious commitments play in the cultural, social, and political dynamics of domestic and world affairs. This so called ''resurgence'' of religion in the public sphere has elicited a wide array of responses, including vehement opposition to the very idea that religious reasons should ever have a right to expression in public political debate. The current global landscape forces scholars to reconsider not only once predominant understandings of secularization, but also the definition and implications of secular assumptions and secularist positions. The notion that there is no singular secularism, but rather a range of multiple secularisms, is one of many emerging efforts to reconceptualize the meanings of religion and the secular. Rethinking Secularism surveys these efforts and helps to reframe discussions of religion in the social sciences by drawing attention to the central issue of how ''the secular'' is constituted and understood. It provides valuable insight into how new understandings of secularism and religion shape analytic perspectives in the social sciences, politics, and international affairs.
Beyond Idols
Author | : Richard K. Fenn |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2001-06-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780198032854 |
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This book attempts to articulate the nature of a secular society, describe its benefits, and suggests the conditions under which such a society could emerge. To become secular, argues Fenn, is to open oneself and one's society to a wide range of possibilities, some interesting and exciting, some burdensome and dreadful. While some sociologists have argued that a "Civil Religion" is necessary to hold together our newly "religionless" society, Fenn urges that there is nothing to fear--and everything to gain--from living in a society that is not bound together by sacred memories and beliefs, or by sacred institutions and practices.
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
Author | : Rebekka Habermas |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2019-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781789201529 |
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With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms. However, religion and religious actors actually played crucial roles in the history of the Kaiserreich, a fact that becomes particularly evident when viewed through a transnational lens. In this volume, leading scholars of sociology, religious studies, and history study the interplay of secular and religious worldviews beyond the simple interrelation of practices and ideas. By exploring secular perspectives, belief systems, and rituals in a transnational context, they provide new ways of understanding how the borders between Imperial Germany’s secular and religious spheres were continually made and remade.