
Modernity and Religion
William Nicholls(Editor)
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Will be published approx. on 28. February 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-88920-154-5 (ISBN)
Description
""It would be possible to argue,"" writes William Nicholls, ""that the pivotal subject of debate among theologians for the past two hundred years has been the relationship between modernity and the Christian tradition.""
What is modernity - a philosophical outlook or a set of ideas? What is modernization - a social process? Is modernity the same as secularity, as many theologians and sociologists in the West believe? Is the impact of modernity weakening religious traditions? Are the responses of non-Western religious traditions to modernity similar to Western ones, or are they distinctive, indigenous adaptations to the same world-wide development.
These are the kinds of concerns the interdisciplinary group of scholars addresses in this volume. Contributors include Moshe Amon (""Utopias and Counter-Utopias""), Alan Davies (""The Rise o Racism in the Nineteenth Century: Symptom of Modernity""), Robert Ellwood, Jr. (""Modern Religion as Folk Religion""), Irving Hexham (""Modernity or Reaction in South Africa: The Case of Afrikaner Religion""), Shotaro Iida (""Japanese New Religions""), Shelia McDonough (""modernity in Islamic Persepctive""), William Nicholls (""Immanent Transcendence: Spirituality in a Scientific and Critical Age""), K. Dad Prithipaul (""Modernity and Religious Studies""), Tom Sinclair-Faulkner (""Caution: Moralists at Work""), Huston Smith (""Can Modernity Accommodate Transcendence?""), and John Wilson (""Modernity and Religion: A Problem of Perspective"").
What is modernity - a philosophical outlook or a set of ideas? What is modernization - a social process? Is modernity the same as secularity, as many theologians and sociologists in the West believe? Is the impact of modernity weakening religious traditions? Are the responses of non-Western religious traditions to modernity similar to Western ones, or are they distinctive, indigenous adaptations to the same world-wide development.
These are the kinds of concerns the interdisciplinary group of scholars addresses in this volume. Contributors include Moshe Amon (""Utopias and Counter-Utopias""), Alan Davies (""The Rise o Racism in the Nineteenth Century: Symptom of Modernity""), Robert Ellwood, Jr. (""Modern Religion as Folk Religion""), Irving Hexham (""Modernity or Reaction in South Africa: The Case of Afrikaner Religion""), Shotaro Iida (""Japanese New Religions""), Shelia McDonough (""modernity in Islamic Persepctive""), William Nicholls (""Immanent Transcendence: Spirituality in a Scientific and Critical Age""), K. Dad Prithipaul (""Modernity and Religious Studies""), Tom Sinclair-Faulkner (""Caution: Moralists at Work""), Huston Smith (""Can Modernity Accommodate Transcendence?""), and John Wilson (""Modernity and Religion: A Problem of Perspective"").
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Language
English
Place of publication
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88920-154-5 (9780889201545)
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William Nicholls is former Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the Unviersity of British Columbia.