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Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory

Author : Carl A. Raschke
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813933064
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory written by Carl A. Raschke and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the academic study of religion has increased almost exponentially in the past fifty years, general theories of religion have been in significant decline. In his new book, Carl Raschke offers the first systematic exploration of how the postmodern philosophical theories of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek have contributed significantly to the development of a theory of religion as a whole. The bold paradigm he uses to articulate the framework for a revolution in religious theory comes from semiotics--namely, the problem of the sign and the "singularity" or "event horizon" from which a sign is generated.

Postmodern Theology

Author : Carl Raschke
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498203876
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Theology written by Carl Raschke and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern Theology consists in a sharp-edged retrospective and reflection on the forty-year history of the most important movement in contemporary religious thought that is only now passing from the scene. The author, Dr. Carl Raschke, is generally credited with having sparked the movement, even if he did not always happen to be its leading spokesperson. Not only has a comprehensive survey of postmodern theology in all its different phases and complexity not been published prior to the appearance of this book, but it is even more remarkable for someone who both “launched” it and had a central role in shepherding it along to offer what may be termed a “movement memoir.” Postmodern Theology surveys and summarizes the major figures and trends that have given currency to such familiar expressions as “deconstruction,” “deconstructive theology,” “radical theology,” “a/theology,” “God is dead,” and of course, “postmodernism” itself. Dr. Raschke also contextualizes the emergence of these catchy phrases from a frothy soup of new intellectual theories and philosophical innovations, which were international in scope but customized for both academic and popular religious writers—mainly in Britain and America—from the late 1960s onward.

Para/Inquiry

Author : Victor E. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134658958
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Para/Inquiry written by Victor E. Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Para/Inquiry represents the next generation of postmodern studies. Focusing on cultural studies religion, and literature, Victor E. Taylor provides us with a fresh look at the history and main themes of postmodernism, both in style and content. Central to the book is the status of the sacred in postmodern times. Taylor explores the sacred images in art, culture and literature. We see that the concept of the sacred is uniquely singular and resistant to an easy assimilation into artistic, cultural or narrative forms. Anyone wishing to gain a new and exciting understanding of postmodernism, will read this book with great pleasure.

Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work

Author : Jean A Pardeck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136381031
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work written by Jean A Pardeck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work discusses the benefits and disadvantages of the postmodern philosophy as a foundation for social work and human service practice. Social work students and practitioners will learn about the developments that have shaped postmodern thinking as they pertain to society in general, as well as to the profession of social work. By exploring this increasingly popular philosophy, Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work provides you with methods and theories that help you evalute contemporary problems more effectively, resulting in better services for your clients. Challenging traditional social work practices, Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work examines postmodernism in terms of a world view that is emerging along indeterminate and ambiguous lines. With the goal of helping you provide more helpful and relevant services to your clients, Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work discusses many themes related to postmodernism, including: understanding how principles of postmodernism are characterized by ongoing change, indeterminacy, and relativism reviewing the historical movement of a postmodern perspective and its present implications on social work practice supporting the strengths perspective through a postmodernist approach discussing some unintended and potentially negative consequences of postmodernism that arise from uncritically adopting postmodernistic principles analyzing the nature of social work and social welfare in Britain and the Western World to gain insight into how social theory is associated with postmodernity, postmodernization, and post-Fordism exploring the postmodernistic relationship between institutionalized religions and social services provided by religious auspices Although postmodernism offers a new and different way of understanding social problems and of structuring social work practice, this text urges you to be critical in the evaluation of its aspects and outlines some possibly negative outcomes in certain situations. In evaluating postmodernism and its relevance to social services and social problems, Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work offers theories and research into methods that go beyond traditional practices to assist you in providing effective and relevant services for your clients.

Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas

Author : David Batstone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136671420
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas written by David Batstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simultaneously arising out of such diverse contexts as the black community in the United States, grassroots religious communities in Latin America, and feminist circles in North Atlantic countries, theologies of liberation have emerged as a resource and inspiration for people seeking social and political freedom. Over the last three decades, liberation theology has irrevocably altered religious thinking and practice throughout the Americas. Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas provides a meaningful and spirited debate on vital interpretive issues in religion, philosophy, and ethics. The renowned group of scholars explore liberation theologies' uses of discourses of emancipation, revolution and utopia in contrast with postmodernism's suspicion of grand narratives, while assessing what the postmodernism/liberation debate means for strategies of social and political transformation. Guided by the experiences of those at the margins of social power, liberation theologies demystify the eurocentric myths of secularization and modernity, and calls for a re-appraisal of religion in contemporary societies. Contributors: Edmund Arens, David Batstone, Maria Clara Bingemer, Enrique Dussel, Gustavo Gutierrez, Jurgen Habermas, Franz Hinkelammert, Dwight Hopkins, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Eduardo Mendieta, Amos Nascimento, Elsa Tamez, Mark McLain Taylor, and Sharon Welch, Robert Allen Warrior

Postmodernism, Reason and Religion

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134894996
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism, Reason and Religion written by Ernest Gellner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns itself to treating truth as relative to the society or culture in question. The third, which Gellner calls enlightenment rationalism, upholds the idea that there is a unique truth, but denies that any society can ever possess it definitively. Learned and stimulating, Professor Gellner’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of postmodernism and the relations between Islam and the West. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the ideological condition of contemporary society.

After God

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226791718
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book After God written by Mark C. Taylor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With fundamentalists dominating the headlines and scientists arguing about the biological and neurological basis of faith, religion is the topic of the day. But religion, Mark C. Taylor shows, is more complicated than either its defenders or critics think and, indeed, is much more influential than any of us realize. Our world, Taylor maintains, is shaped by religion even when it is least obvious. Faith and value, he insists, are unavoidable and inextricably interrelated for believers and nonbelievers alike. Using scientific theories of dynamical systems and complex adaptive networks for cultural and theological analysis, After God redefines religion for our contemporary age. Taylor begins by asking a critical question: What is religion? He then proceeds to explain how Protestant ideas in particular undergird the character and structure of our global information society--the Reformation, Taylor argues, was an information and communications revolution that effectively prepared the way for the media revolution at the end of the twentieth century. Taylor s breathtaking account of religious ideas allows us to understand for the first time that contemporary notions of atheism and the secular are already implicit in classical Christology and Trinitarian theology. Weaving together theoretical analysis and historical interpretation, Taylor demonstrates the codependence and coevolution of traditional religious beliefs and practices with modern literature, art, architecture, information technologies, media, financial markets, and theoretical biology. After God concludes with prescriptions for new ways of thinking and acting. If we are to negotiate the perils of the twenty-first century, Taylor contends, we must refigure the symbolic networks that inform our policies and guide our actions. A religion without God creates the possibility of an ethics without absolutes that leads to the promotion of creativity and life in an ever more fragile world"--Publisher description.

Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity

Author : Paul Heelas
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631198482
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity written by Paul Heelas and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1998-07-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity is the first book to engage the study of religion with contemporary theorizing about culture. It addresses important issues such as whether there are postmodern forms of religion, whether theories of religion framed in terms of modernity can be recast to suit new or emerging circumstances, and how the study of religion can be better integrated with recent developments in the study of culture.

Religion After Postmodernism

Author : Victor E. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion After Postmodernism written by Victor E. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critical examination of the role of the imagination in the modern and postmodern periods, Victor E. Taylor looks at the 'fable' as a narrative form that addresses the ultimate questions of how to live and why. He assesses various literary theories and styles in the wake of postmodernism to reveal the ways in which fable-style narrative can be a meaningful genre for addressing traditional and post-traditional religious, ethical, and epistemological concerns. In the process, Taylor draws on key figures across the humanities--from Mircea Eliade and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Paul Ricoeur and Slavoj Zizek, to Leo Tolstoy and Franz Kafka. Placing an emphasis on rethinking the importance of critical theory in religious studies, the author argues that a new, more demanding formulation of the concept of possibility allows for a realignment of the philosophical, mythological, and literary imaginations. By returning to the history of philosophy, myth studies, and modern literature, Taylor makes a renewed case for the significance of a distinctive formulation of religious theory as a desire for thinking. Religion after Postmodernism calls for a reconsideration of "theory as thinking" for the future of philosophy, religious studies, and literature.

Shadow of Spirit

Author : Philippa Berry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415066387
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Shadow of Spirit written by Philippa Berry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1992 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of internationally recognised scholars address the postmodern shake-up of theory, culture and politics, which has led to a new encounter between the humanities and the discourses of religion.

Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies

Author : Jim Kanaris
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438494564
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies written by Jim Kanaris and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important work, Jim Kanaris provides a unique approach to the study of religion, aiming to alleviate the methodological and ideological barriers that divide philosophers, theologians, and social scientists. This is a "philosophy of religion" for a wider audience than that designation usually circumscribes, and, for that reason, Kanaris opts for the broader "philosophy of religious studies." He hybridizes insights principally from the works of Bernard Lonergan and Martin Heidegger but also those of Jacques Derrida, Charles Winquist, and Tyler Roberts, among others. Kanaris combines this with a distinctive hermeneutical approach that gives rise to what he calls "enecstatic" philosophy, one that manages the irreducible complexity of one's individuality, a singularity, in the negotiation of one's objects of concern. Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies is unlike any other book in religious studies. It provides a unique way to surface personal involvement in the study of religion without compromising scholarly objectivity and philosophical integrity.

Postmodern Theology

Author : Carl Raschke
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498203884
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Theology written by Carl Raschke and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern Theology consists in a sharp-edged retrospective and reflection on the forty-year history of the most important movement in contemporary religious thought that is only now passing from the scene. The author, Dr. Carl Raschke, is generally credited with having sparked the movement, even if he did not always happen to be its leading spokesperson. Not only has a comprehensive survey of postmodern theology in all its different phases and complexity not been published prior to the appearance of this book, but it is even more remarkable for someone who both "launched" it and had a central role in shepherding it along to offer what may be termed a "movement memoir." Postmodern Theology surveys and summarizes the major figures and trends that have given currency to such familiar expressions as "deconstruction," "deconstructive theology," "radical theology," "a/theology," "God is dead," and of course, "postmodernism" itself. Dr. Raschke also contextualizes the emergence of these catchy phrases from a frothy soup of new intellectual theories and philosophical innovations, which were international in scope but customized for both academic and popular religious writers--mainly in Britain and America--from the late 1960s onward.

A Primer on Postmodernism

Author : Stanley J. Grenz
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802808646
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book A Primer on Postmodernism written by Stanley J. Grenz and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1996-02-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grenz examines the topography of postmodernism, a phenomenon everyone acknowledges, but has difficulty describing with precision. Of particular significance is his discussion of the challenges this cultural shift presents to the church.

Truth Decay

Author : Douglas Groothuis
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830822287
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Truth Decay written by Douglas Groothuis and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Groothuis sees the basic tenets of postmodernism as intellectually flawed and here unveils how truth can be defended in the postmodern era in the vital areas of theology, apologetics, ethics and the arts.

Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion

Author : Jim Kanaris
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438469098
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion written by Jim Kanaris and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the place and meaning of philosophy of religion in our current poststructuralist, postsecular, postcolonialist context. This collection addresses, as it exemplifies, an identity crisis in contemporary philosophy of religion. It represents a unique two-way dialogue between philosophers of religion and scholars of religion and broaches issues pertaining to the philosophy of religion and the philosophical tradition, on the one hand, and religious studies, theology, and the modern academy on the other. While each author manages the current challenges in philosophy of religion differently, one can nonetheless discern a polyphony of interests surrounding a postcritical, postsecular appreciation of religion. In part 1, contributors ask how philosophy of religion can accommodate both the strengths and weaknesses of Western analytic and continental traditions; incorporate developments in ideology critique, gender studies, and Asian philosophies; and negotiate the perceived stalemate in philosophy of religion. Part 2 addresses these questions in terms of a philosophy of religion that is postcolonial in intention and multidisciplinary in orientation and features scholarship from the fields of both religion and theology. An underlying theme is the importance of ushering philosophy of religion into a postphenomenological era of religious studies and theology. This is a neglected dimension in many laudable discussions about philosophy of religion that this volume hopes to emend. This gathering of important voices and the differences of approach and opinion that they represent invites/provokes reflection, self-examination by philosophers of religion, and further work. Jeffrey Dudiak, author of The Intrigue of Ethics: A Reading of the Idea of Discourse in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas

Force of God

Author : Carl A. Raschke
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539622
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Force of God written by Carl A. Raschke and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For theorists in search of a political theology that is more responsive to the challenges now facing Western democracies, this book tenders a new political economy anchored in a theory of value. The political theology of the future, Carl Raschke argues, must draw on a powerful, hidden impetus—the "force of God"—to frame a new value economy. It must also embrace a radical, "faith-based" revolutionary style of theory that reconceives the power of the "theological" in political thought and action. Raschke ties democracy's retreat to the West's failure to confront its decadence and mobilize its vast spiritual resources. Worsening debt, rising unemployment, and gross income inequality have led to a crisis in political representation and values that twentieth-century theorists never anticipated. Drawing on the thought of Hegel and Nietzsche as well as recent work by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Joseph Goux, Giorgio Agamben, and Alain Badiou, among others, Raschke recasts political theology for a new generation. He proposes a bold, uncompromising critical theory that acknowledges the enduring significance of Marx without his materialism and builds a vital, more spiritually grounded relationship between politics and the religious imaginary.

Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213365
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought written by Merold Westphal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are postmodern philosophy and Christian thought so diametrically opposed that "never the twain shall meet"? Or are various postmodern philosophies, in spite of their secular provenance, open to religious appropriation? These thirteen lively, original essays awaken secular postmodernisms and various modes of Christian thinking from their ideological complacency. An open space for passionate dialogue emerges from conversations that powerfully engage both intellectual and religious points of view.