RT Book
T1 Narratives of disenchantment and secularization: critiquing Max Webers idea
A2 Trein, Lorenz
A2 Yelle, Robert A.
LA English
PP London England
PB Bloomsbury Academic
YR 2020
ED First edition
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1740809203
AB "What does it really mean to be modern? The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber's historical idea of disenchantment and to develop further his understanding of what the contested relationship between modernity and religion represents. The approach is distinctive because it focuses on disenchantment as key to understanding those aspects of modern society and culture that Weber diagnosed. This is in opposition to approaches that focus on secularization , narrowly construed as the rise of secularism or the divide between religion and politics, and that then conflate this with modernization as a whole. Other novel contributions are discussions of temporality - meaning the sense of time or of historical change that posits a separation between an ostensibly secular modernity and its religious past - and of the manner in which such a sense of time is constructed and disseminated through narratives that themselves may resemble religious myths. It reflects the idea that disenchantment is a narrative with either Enlightenment, Romantic, or Christian roots, thereby developing a conversation between critical studies in the field of secularism (such as those of Talal Asad and Gil Anidjar) and conceptual history approaches to secularization and modernity (such as those of Karl Løwith and Reinhart Koselleck), and in the process creates something that is more than merely the sum of its parts."--
AB Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dialectics of Disenchantment: The Devaluation of the Objective World and the Revaluation of Subjective Religiosity -- Hans Kippenberg -- Max Weber and the Rationalization of Magic -- Jason A. Josephson-Storm -- Science as a Commodity: Disenchantment and Conspicuous Consumption -- Egil Asprem -- Multiple Times of Disenchantment and Secularization -- Lorenz Trein -- The Disenchanted Enchantments of the Modern Imagination and "Fictionalism" -- Michael Saler -- Narratives of Disenchantment, Narratives of Secularization: Radical Enlightenment and the Rise of the Illiberal Secular -- Jonathan Israel -- "An Age of Miracles": Disenchantment as a Secularized Theological Narrative -- Robert A. Yelle -- Counter-Narratives to Secularization: Merits and Limits of Genealogy Critique -- Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- List of Contributors -- Index
NO Includes index
CN BT82
SN 1350145645
SN 9781350145672
SN 9781350145658
SN 9781350145641
K1 Weber, Max : 1864-1920 : Criticism and interpretation
K1 Modernism (Christian theology)
K1 History of religion
K1 Electronic books
K1 Konferenzschrift : 2017 : München
DO 10.5040/9781350145672