Religion and the Making of Society Essays in Social Theology

Name: Religion and the Making of Society Essays in Social Theology
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ISBN: 9780521447898

ISBN-10: 0521447895

ISBN-13: 9780521447898

Edition: 1994

Authors: Charles Davis, Duncan Forrester, Alistair Kee

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In this book a leading contemporary theologian investigates the relation between religion and society. Professor Davis begins with the thesis that society is a product of human agency; this raises immediately the questions of the meaning of modernity and of the function of religion in that context. The linguistic and pragmatic orientation of modern philosophy and social theory lead to a discussion of religious language and of praxis.Whether modernity is an incomplete project, as Habermas would have it, or a mistaken universalism, as the post-moderns maintain, is debated under the heading of human identity, both individual and collective, and in an examination of the formation of the modern…

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List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/18/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



General editorsï¿½ preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction: from the secular to the supernatural



Society, Religion and Human Agency



Society and the critique of modernity



The present social functions of religion



From inwardness to social action: the transformation of the political



The Christian question to radicalism



Praxis, narrative and Religious Language



Theology and praxis



Revelation, historical continuity and the rationality of tradition



The political use and misuse of religious language



From the Modern Subject to the Post-Modern Self



Our new religious identity



Post-modernity and the formation of the self



the Option for the Future



What remains of socialism as a moral and religious ideal



Communicative rationality and the grounding of religious hope



Conclusion