Prisoners of a Metaphor: Secularization as a Deicidal Epidemic
The article discusses the first reactions of many distinguished commentators to the impact that the CoViD-19 pandemic had on people’s religious life globally. Such across-the-board response is investigated against the background of Peter Sloterdijk’s exemplary reinterpretation of the religious verti...
| Published in: | Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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| In: |
Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
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| Further subjects: | B
Sloterdijk
B religious imaginary B Secularization B CoViD-19 epidemic |
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| Summary: | The article discusses the first reactions of many distinguished commentators to the impact that the CoViD-19 pandemic had on people’s religious life globally. Such across-the-board response is investigated against the background of Peter Sloterdijk’s exemplary reinterpretation of the religious vertical impulse in terms of anthropotechnics and is found defective. A more nuanced and ambivalent account of secularization is offered in the end as a viable alternative to the standard thesis of the disenchantment of the world. |
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| ISSN: | 2364-2807 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10021 |