Religion and Academia Reframed: Connecting Religion, Science, and Society in the Long Sixties

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54656-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

The Long Sixties (1955–1973) were a period of economic prosperity, political unrest, sexual liberation, cultural experimentation, and profound religious innovation throughout the Western world. This social effervescence also affected the study of religion by reshaping the relationships between academic and religious institutions and discourses. While the mainstream churches sought to deploy the instruments of the social sciences to understand and manage the changing socioreligious context, prominent scholars regarded the bubbly spirituality of the counterculture as the harbinger of a new era; some of them actively used their academic knowledge to further this revolution. This book discusses the multiple entanglements of religion and science during these turbulent decades through theoretically informed case studies from both sides of the Atlantic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rota, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Religion, Academia, and Society in the Long Sixties

Andrea Rota

2 From Restauration to Renewal: Shifting Perceptions of Ecclesiastical Policy Formation in the Long Sixties

Chris Dols

3 Planning the Present by Examining the Future: Prospective Thinking in the Swiss Catholic Church during the Long Sixties

Simon Michel

4 The Development of the Sociology of Religion in Quebec: Raymond Lemieux’s Quiet Revolutions

Franc¸ois Gauthier and Jean-Philippe Perreault

5 Expertise on NRMs in Switzerland: An Interstitial Space between the Religious and Scientific Fields

Christina Wyttenbach

6 Robert N. Bellah and the New Religious Consciousness

W. Michael Ashcraft

7 The Religion of Love: Talcott Parsons and the Expressive Revolution

Rafael Walthert

8 Acid Scholarship: Timothy Leary and the Academic Background of Psychedelic Occulture

Andrea Rota

9 Runner’s High: Conceptual Diffusion of Peak Experience in the US Human Potential and Jogging Movements

Bernadett Bigalke, Jasmin Eder, and Sebastian Schüler

10 The Lust for Order in History: Axiality in the “Long Sixties”

David Atwood

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Rota, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of the Study of Religion at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo. He is the author of Collective Intentionality and the Study of Religion. Social Ontology and Empirical Research (Bloomsbury 2023).