Postmodernism, Reason and Religion

Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134894988

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First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns itself to treating truth as relative to the society or culture in question. The third, which Gellner calls enlightenment rationalism, upholds the idea that there is a unique truth, but denies that any society can ever possess it definitively. Learned and stimulating, Professor Gellner’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of postmodernism and the relations between Islam and the West. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the ideological condition of contemporary society.

Postmodernism, Reason and Religion

Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
Author: Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre: Postmodernism
ISBN: 9781138175266

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This shrewd and penetrating book, written by one of the world's most respected social thinkers, delves to the heart of the controversy between Islam and the West.

God, the Gift, and Postmodernism

God, the Gift, and Postmodernism
Author: John D. Caputo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 1999-12-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253113326

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Pushing past the constraints of postmodernism which cast "reason" and"religion" in opposition, God, the Gift, and Postmodernism, seizes the opportunity to question the authority of "the modern" and open the limits of possible experience, including the call to religious experience, as a new millennium approaches. Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, engages with Jean-Luc Marion and other religious philosophers to entertain questions about intention, givenness, and possibility which reveal the extent to which deconstruction is structured like religion. New interpretations of Kant, Heidegger, Husserl, and Derrida emerge from essays and discussions with distinguished philosophers and theologians from the United States and Europe. The result is that God, the Gift, and Postmodernism elaborates a radical phenomenology that stretches the limits of its possibility and explores areas where philosophy and religion have become increasingly and surprisingly convergent. Contributors include: John D. Caputo, John Dominic Crossan, Jacques Derrida, Robert Dodaro, Richard Kearney, Jean-Luc Marion, Frangoise Meltzer, Michael J. Scanlon, Mark C. Taylor, David Tracy, Merold Westphal and Edith Wyschogrod.

The Sacrality of the Secular

The Sacrality of the Secular
Author: Bradley B. Onishi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0231545231

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Through a bold and historically rooted vision for the future of philosophy of religion, The Sacrality of the Secular maps new and compelling possibilities for a nonsecularist secularity. In recent decades, philosophers in the continental tradition have taken a notable interest in the return of religion, a departure from the supposed hegemony of the secular age that began with the Enlightenment. At the same time, anthropologists and sociologists have begun to reject the once-dominant secularization thesis, which both prescribed and described the demise of religion in modern societies. In The Sacrality of the Secular, Bradley B. Onishi reconsiders the role of religion at a time when secularity is more tenuous than it might seem. He demonstrates that philosophy’s entanglement with religion led, perhaps counterintuitively, to vibrant reconceptions of the secular well before the unraveling of the secularization thesis or the turn to religion. Through rich readings of Heidegger, Bataille, Weber, and others, Onishi rethinks what philosophy can contribute to our understanding of religion and the wider social and cultural world.

Explaining Postmodernism

Explaining Postmodernism
Author: Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher: Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2004
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781592476428

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Postmodernism and Islam

Postmodernism and Islam
Author: Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134924178

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Can West and East ever understand each other? In this extraordinary book one of the world's leading Muslim scholars explores an area which has which has been almost entirely neglected by scholars in the field - the area of postmodernism and Islam. This landmark work is startling, constantly perceptive and certain to be debated for years to come.

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith
Author: Crystal Downing
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2006-05-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830827587

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Crystal L. Downing introduces students (especially those in the arts) to postmodernism: where it came from, and how Christians can best understand, critique and benefit from its insights.

The Critique of Theological Reason

The Critique of Theological Reason
Author: James P. Mackey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2000-10-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781139429931

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Far from merely reinvigorating relativism, postmodernism has detected and expressed in our time a powerful nihilating process of which truth and reality itself are the final casualties; and with these morality and religion. Beginning from the theological reaches of philosophy, this book argues that gods played a crucial part in modern philosophy, even when it was most critical of them; that the dominant nihilism of Derrida is really an excessive and misleading outcome of a contemporary philosophy which could otherwise resonate with all that is best in our evolutionary image of the universe; that moralists who turn to art in order to overcome the fact–value version of this deadly dualism do not thereby rule out religion; and that a Christian theology which recognises the evolutionary and historical conditions of faith and revelation is once again producing a theology that builds upon the best of contemporary philosophy and science.

The Next Reformation

The Next Reformation
Author: Carl Raschke
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0801027519

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Demonstrates how to reconcile postmodernism with Christian faith.

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Author: James K. A. Smith
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441200398

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The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have a deep affinity with central Christian claims. Each chapter opens with an illustration from a recent movie and concludes with a case study considering recent developments in the church that have attempted to respond to the postmodern condition, such as the "emerging church" movement. These case studies provide a concrete picture of how postmodern ideas can influence the way Christians think and worship. This significant book, winner of a Christianity Today 2007 Book Award, avoids philosophical jargon and offers fuller explanation where needed. It is the first book in the Church and Postmodern Culture series, which provides practical applications for Christians engaged in ministry in a postmodern world.