... Authority Freedom Totalitarianism Religion On the basis of the historical reconstruction of the Catholic discourse of anti-relativism carried out in the previous chapter , I will now move on to the task of critique. As mentioned in the introduction, I intend to pursue two different lines of critique...

... the notions of religion and the powers that commanded the latter—the gods—and the poetic languages that defined them. He had considered that time a “black spring” from which a stronger understanding of myth (and by extension, religion) arose—and myth itself, the author claims, is explained by poetry. religion...

... Pope Catholic identity Vatican Council II Popular religion Opposition to modernity Complexio oppositorum John Paul II Ecumenism Nostra Aetate E ven as the world was beginning to learn the name of Ruhollah Khomeini, another exotic name grabbed the attention of the global public...

...The social psychology of religion remained linked to conjectural thought even in the first two decades of the twentieth century, as Durkheim and Freud sought to elucidate the nature of religion through its inferred origins, and Weber added a religious dimension to the speculations of Smith and Marx...

... the process of leaving religion. Bénichou Paul Castoriadis Cornelius Democracy Lefort Claude Romantics Autonomy Institution “The Permanence of the Theologico Political?” Lefort Religion The Disenchantment of the World Gauchet Esprit Gauchet Marcel Antiauthoritarian movement Common Programme Le...

... is trying to “fill in the hole,” to overcome the indeterminacy, and to secularize the transcendence of the political to the social. In addition to discussing the dramatic shift in his own politics, this chapter considers Žižek's views about universality and his critique of Jacques Derrida's religion without...

...This chapter examines how psychological studies concerning religion and its relationship with pathological mental states were reworked by religious Americans in an effort to reform religion and regain their concept of belief. Particular attention is given to religious liberal Horatio Dresser...

...This chapter discusses modern scholarly studies concerning religion, in relation to Charles Taylor's work, A Secular Age. Over the past decade, scholarly inquiry about contemporary religion has focused on the mutual constitution and interaction of the religious and secular...

... assumptions of official anthropology about structure and agency, custom and tradition, religion and ritual practice, and the objective provenance of anthropological inquiry. The chapter then considers some of the footnotes of colonial ethnography, along with the institutional links between anthropological...

...This chapter demonstrates two ways of having morality without religion, with the idea being that morality, ethics, and just behaving nicely are completely natural. Morality of a particularly strong sort can emerge without any help from religion at all. Over the years, philosophers have argued over...

...This concluding chapter argues that, unlike religious mysteries, the excellent beauties can, beyond inspiring beauty and awe in a person, enrich a person's life in the way that religions would have, or could not have, done. Religion, after all, has already been argued as nonexistent—a product...

...This chapter focuses on the generic science of the world, along with “christo-fictional” statements that will be received as theological fictions but that are nevertheless true. It begins with an overview of substantial religions as opposed to formal or generic religion before turning...

...Epilogue synthesizes the entire analyses. It discusses the meanings of the observations in terms of the Jews’ vitality and particularity. En passant, it also glances at the American religious scene at large. Belonging sense of Identity Religion in America Social stratification Sociology...

...This chapter considers the notion that religion often serves as an independent source of conflict. It suggests that religion does not serve as a rhetorical screen for violent antipathies spawned by oppression, deprivation, the memory of colonialism, or a deep sense of humiliation—not to mention...

...This concluding chapter synthesizes the topics discussed in the previous chapters and considers some issues which center on how a religion may become more tolerant while remaining true to itself. It presents two ways of conceiving of the Enlightenment's approach to religion. First is the promotion...

...This chapter examines what it means to live without religion by focusing on the work of Albert Camus, one of the twentieth century’s great unbelievers, and connecting him with the nineteenth-century precursors of existentialism. Camus’s writings are surprisingly more than a match for the work...