Religion in the 21st Century

Challenges and Transformations
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4094-0398-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

In spite of the debate about secularization or de-secularization, the existential-bodily need for religion is basically the same as always. What have been changed are the horizons within which religions are interpreted and the relationships within which religions are integrated. This book explores how religions continue to challenge secular democracy and science, and how religions are themselves being challenged by secular values and practices. All traditions - whether religious or secular - experience a struggle over authority, and this struggle seems to intensify with globalization, as it has brought people around the world in closer contact with each other. In this book internationally leading scholars from sociology, law, political science, religious studies, theology and the religion and science debate, take stock of the current interdisciplinary research on religion and open new perspectives at the cutting edge of the debate on religion in the 21st century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christoffersen, Lisbet

Warburg, Margit

Iversen, Hans Raun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Hanne Petersen; Part 1 Challenges; Political and Intellectual Challenge; Chapter 1 Religion Challenging the Myth of Secular Democracy, José Casanova; Chapter 2 ‘Fundamentalism’ and the Pluralization of Value-Orientations, Peter Beyer; Chapter 3 Intellectual Challenges from Religion, Sven-Eric Liedman; Chapter 4 Political and Intellectual Challenges: A Sociological Response, Grace Davie; Chapter 5 Political and Intellectual Challenges: A Theological Response, Niels Henrik Gregersen; The Religion and Science Debate; Chapter 6 Challenges in the 21st Century: Religion and Science, Philip Clayton; Chapter 7 Religions and the Natural Sciences: Appeals to Science as Religious Advocacy?, Willem B. Drees; Chapter 8 The Need of Real Doubt in Religion and Science, Jesper Hoffmeyer; Part 2 Transformations; Islam and State Politics; Chapter 9 –96: 37–53. A Critical Analysis of Transformative Processes in Islamic Law and Muslim State Practice, Shaheen Sardar Ali; Chapter 10 Clashes and Encounters: Challenges in Nordic Legal Cultures Related to Law and Religion, Kjell Å Modéer; Chapter 11 Law and Religion in Europe, Silvio Ferrari; Secularism and State Politics; Chapter 12 Republicisation of Religion in France, Sébastien Tank-Storper; Chapter 13 The Meaning of Privatization and De-privatization, Martin Riesebrodt; Denmark and the Cartoons; Chapter 14 The Settled Secularity of Happy Denmark, David Martin; Chapter 15 Background of the Cartoon Crisis in Danish Mentality, Hans Raun Iversen; Chapter 16 The Politics of Lutheran Secularism: Reiterating Secularism in the Wake of the Cartoon Crisis 1 An earlier version of this essay was presented at the Political and Social Philosophy Research Seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 15 November 2007. I would like to thank the participants for their comments., Anders Berg-Sørensen; Chapter 17 Globalisation and Religious Diasporas: A Reassessment in the Light of the Cartoon Crisis, Margit Warburg;

Über Autor(innen)

Lisbet Christoffersen is Professor in Law, Religion and Society at Roskilde University, Denmark, and Adjunct Professor of Law and Religion with Ecclesiastical Law at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark Hanne Petersen is Professor of Legal Cultures. She is part of a management team of the Centre for Studies of Legal Culture at the University of Copenhagen. She was formerly Professor of Jurisprudence and Sociology of Law at the University of Greenland, and Professor of Greenlandic Sociology of Law at the University of Copenhagen. Margit Warburg is Professor in Sociology of Religion at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark Hans Raun Iversen is Associate Professor for Practical Theology at the University of Copenhagen;