After God
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2008
483 pages
978-0-226-79172-2 (ISBN)
Description
Religion, Mark C. Taylor argues in After God, 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.The first comprehensive theology of culture since the pioneering work of Paul Tillich, After God redefines religion for our contemporary age. This volumeis a radical reconceptualization of religion and Taylor's most pathbreaking work yet, bringing together various strands of theological argument and cultural analysis four decades in the making.Praise for Mark C. Taylor",The distinguishing feature of Taylor's career is a fearless, or perhaps reckless, orientation to the new and to whatever challenges orthodoxy. . . . Taylor's work is playful, perverse, rarefied, ingenious, and often brilliant.",-New York Times Magazine
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 / Theorizing Religion
- Religion Visible and Invisible
- Against Theory
- Networking Symbols
- Three Ways of Being Religious
- 2 / The Protestant Revolution
- The Divided Subject
- The Invisible Hand
- Privatization, Decentralization, Deregulation
- 3 / Subjectivity and Modernity
- Freedom and Representation
- Figuring Subjects
- World as Work of Art
- 4 / Religious Secularity
- Immanence and Transcendence
- Incarnation and Trinity
- Self-Embodiment of God
- Theology and Theory
- 5 / Eclipse of the Real
- Deaths of God
- Consuming Images
- Cultivating Diversity
- 6 / Recovering the Real
- Counterculture
- Securing the Base
- Marketing the New Age
- Base Closures
- 7 / Religion without God
- Refiguring Life
- Emergent Creativity
- 8 / Ethics without Absolutes
- Guide for the Perplexed
- Fluid Dynamics
- Notes
- Index
