Public Religions in the Modern World

Name: Public Religions in the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780226095356

ISBN-10: 0226095355

ISBN-13: 9780226095356

Edition: 1994 (Reprint)

Authors: Jose Casanova

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In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies. During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology, began making their way, often forcefully, out of the private sphere and into public life, causing the "deprivatization" of religion in contemporary life. No longer content merely to administer pastoral care to individual souls, religious institutions are challenging dominant political and social forces, raising questions about the claims of entities such as nations and markets to be "value neutral",…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.91" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.034



Acknowledgements



Secularization, Enlightenment, and Modern Religion



Private and Public Religions



Spain: From State Church to Disestablishment



Poland: From Church of the Nation to Civil Society



Brazil: From From Oligarchie Church to People's Church



Evangelical Protestantism: From Civil Religion to Fundamentalist Sect to New Christian Right



Catholicism in the United States: From Private to Public Denomination



The Deprivatization of Modern Religion


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