Formations of belief: historical approaches to religion and the secular
Introduction / Philip Nord -- Past belief : the fall and rise of ecclesiastical history in early modern Europe / Anthony Grafton -- Jacob Sasportas and Jewish Messianism / Yaacob Dweck -- Doubt and unbelief in the early modern era : Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and the Spanish tradition / Stefania Pasto...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ
Princeton University Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Faith
/ Secularization
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Religion History 21st century B Secularism History 21st century |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Introduction / Philip Nord -- Past belief : the fall and rise of ecclesiastical history in early modern Europe / Anthony Grafton -- Jacob Sasportas and Jewish Messianism / Yaacob Dweck -- Doubt and unbelief in the early modern era : Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and the Spanish tradition / Stefania Pastore -- Exeuntes de corpore qui sumus? "out of the body, who are we?" Augustine, the care of the dead, and a clash of representations / Peter Brown -- In the church and at home: approaches to saints in colonial Mexico / Caterina Pizzigoni -- An ordinary Soviet death : scientific atheism, socialist rituals, and life's final question / Victoria Smolkin -- True believers in the modern Middle East / Max Weiss -- The reformation era and the secularization of knowledge / Brad S. Gregory -- Contesting secularization : the idea of a normative deficit of modernity after Max Weber / Peter E. Gordon -- Religious minorities and the anxieties of an Islamic identity in Pakistan / Muhammad Qasim Zaman -- Belief in science : on the neuroscience of religion / Katja Guenther. "For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life--and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. Formations of Belief brings together many of today's leading historians to shed critical light on secularism's origins, its present crisis, and whether it is as antithetical to religion as it is so often made out to be. Formations of Belief offers a more nuanced understanding of the origins of secularist thought, demonstrating how Reformed Christianity and the Enlightenment were not the sole vessels of a worldview based on rationalism and individual autonomy. Taking readers from late antiquity to the contemporary era, the contributors show how secularism itself can be a form of belief and yet how its crisis today has been brought on by its apparent incapacity to satisfy people's spiritual needs. They explore the rise of the humanistic study of religion in Europe, Jewish messianism, atheism and last rites in the Soviet Union, the cult of the saints in colonial Mexico, religious minorities and Islamic identity in Pakistan, the neuroscience of religion, and more. Based on the Shelby Cullom Davis Center Seminars at Princeton University, this incisive book features illuminating essays by Peter Brown, Yaacob Dweck, Peter E. Gordon, Anthony Grafton, Brad S. Gregory, Stefania Pastore, Caterina Pizzigoni, Victoria Smolkin, Max Weiss, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman."-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index "Publications in partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University"--Page opposite the title page |
| ISBN: | 0691190755 |