Religion in the 21st Century: Challenges and Transformations

by Margit Warburg, Lisbet Christoffersen, Hanne Petersen, Hans Raun Iversen

Overview

In spite of the debate about secularization or de-secularization, the existential-bodily need for religion is basically the same as always. What have been changed are the horizons within which religions are interpreted and the relationships within which religions are integrated.

This book explores how religions continue to challenge secular democracy and science, and how religions are themselves being challenged by secular values and practices. All traditions - whether religious or secular - experience a struggle over authority, and this struggle seems to intensify with globalization, as it has brought people around the world in closer contact with each other. In this book internationally leading scholars from sociology, law, political science, religious studies, theology and the religion and science debate, take stock of the current interdisciplinary research on religion and open new perspectives at the cutting edge of the debate on religion in the 21st century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409480860
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	06/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
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About the Author

Lisbet Christoffersen is Professor in Law, Religion and Society at Roskilde University, Denmark, and Adjunct Professor of Law and Religion with Ecclesiastical Law at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Hanne Petersen is Professor of Legal Cultures. She is part of a management team of the Centre for Studies of Legal Culture at the University of Copenhagen. She was formerly Professor of Jurisprudence and Sociology of Law at the University of Greenland, and Professor of Greenlandic Sociology of Law at the University of Copenhagen.

Margit Warburg is Professor in Sociology of Religion at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Hans Raun Iversen is Associate Professor for Practical Theology at the University of Copenhagen;

Hanne Petersen, José Casanova, Sven-Eric Liedman, Grace Davie, Niels Henrik Gregersen, Philip Clayton, Willem B. Drees, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Shaheen Sardar Ali, Kjell Å. Modéer, Silvio Ferrari, Sébastien Tank-Storper, Martin Riesebrodt, David Martin, Hans Raun Iversen, Anders Berg-Sørensen, Margit Warburg.

Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction, Hanne Petersen; Part I Challenges: Political and Intellectual Challenge: Religion challenging the myth of secular democracy, José Casanova; 'Fundamentalism' and the pluralization of value-orientations, Peter Beyer; Intellectual challenges from religion, Sven-Eric Liedman; Political and intellectual challenges; a sociological response, Grace Davie; Political and intellectual challenges: a theological response, Niels Henrik Gregersen. The Religion and Science Debate: Challenges in the 21st century: religion and science, Philip Clayton; Religions and the natural sciences: appeals to science as religious advocacy?, Willem B. Drees; The need of real doubt in religion and science, Jesper Hoffmeyer. Part II Transformations: Islam and State Politics: 'Systematically closed, cognitively open?' A critical analysis of transformative processes in Islamic law and Muslim state practice, Shaheen Sardar Ali; Clashes and encounters: challenges in Nordic legal cultures related to law and religion, Kjell Å. Modéer; Law and religion in Europe, Silvio Ferrari. Secularism and State Politics: Republicisation of religion in France, Sébastien Tank-Storper; The meaning of privatization and de-privatization, Martin Riesebrodt. Denmark and the Cartoons: The settled secularity of happy Denmark, David Martin; Background of the cartoon crises in Danish mentality, Hans Raun Iversen; The politics of Lutheran secularism: reiterating secularism in the wake of the cartoon crisis, Anders Berg-Sørensen; Globalisation and religious diasporas: a reassessment in the light of the cartoon crises, Margit Warburg; Index.