Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity

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.

Paul Heelas is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster. His last book, The New Age Movement (Blackwell, 1995), has met with critical acclaim and he is also a Series Editor for the new Blackwell series Religion and Modernity.

David Martin is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster.

List of Contributors

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1 Introduction: on differentiation and dedifferentiation

1

(18)

Paul Heelas

2 Cathedrals to cults: the evolving forms of the religious life

19

(17)

Steve Bruce

3 Terminal faith

36

(19)

Mark C. Taylor

4 Postmodern religion?

55

(24)

Zygmunt Bauman

5 Tradition, retrospective perception, nationalism and modernism

79

(9)

Ninian Smart

6 From fundamentalism to fundamentalisms: a religious ideology in multiple forms

88

(14)

Bruce B. Lawrence

7 From pre- to postmodernity in Latin America: the case of Pentecostalism

102

(45)

Bernice Martin

8 Secularization and citizenship in Muslim Indonesia

147

(22)

Robert W. Hefner

9 Religion and national identity in modern and postmodern Japan

169

(17)

Winston Davis

10 The construals of 'Europe': religion, theology and the problematics of modernity

186

(32)

Richard H. Roberts

11 Post-Christianity

218

(15)

Don Cupitt

12 Kenosis and naming: beyond analogy and towards allegoria amoris

233

(25)

Graham Ward

13 Sublimity: the modern transcendent

258

(27)

John Milbank

14 The primacy of theology and the question of perception

285

(29)

Phillip Blond

15 The Impossible

314

(18)

Kevin Hart

Index

332

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Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity

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