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Encountering Religion
- Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
Engelsk Hardback
Encountering Religion
- Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
Engelsk Hardback

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Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of religion" and an ideological and authoritarian "religion," he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach the field as a site of "encounter" and "response," illuminating the agency, creativity, and critical awareness of religious actors. To respond to religion is to ask what religious behaviors and representations mean to us in our individual worlds, and scholars must confront questions of possibility and becoming that arise from testing their beliefs, imperatives, and practices. Roberts refers to the work of Hent de Vries, Eric Santner, and Stanley Cavell, each of whom exemplifies encounter and response in their writings as they traverse philosophy and religion to expose secular thinking to religious thought and practice. This approach highlights the resources religious discourse can offer to a fundamental reorientation of critical thought. In humanistic criticism after secularism, the lines separating the creative, the pious, and the critical themselves become the subject of question and experimentation.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780231147521
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
023114752X
Udg. Dato:
17 sep 2013
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
Columbia University Press
Oplagsdato:
17 sep 2013
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