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Faith and Fabric (The status of ‘secular modernity’ in an African context)
In 2005/2006 the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin hosted an inter-disciplinary research project on secular modernity in which world-renowned Fellows like Hans Joas (German sociologist at the Freiburh Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), professor of the University of Chicago), who led the project, Charles Taylor (Canadian philosopher) and Jose Casanova (sociologist of religion from New York), amongst others, studied the nature of secularisation and the presence and role or religion in different so-called modern societies.
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The Moral Limits of Religious Pluralism
Weisse, Weisse. (2023). The Moral Limits of Religious Pluralism. In J. B. Imber (Ed.), The Anthem Companion to Peter Berger (pp. 47–60). Ant...
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Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies: Possibilities, Challenges, and Limitations of Interreligious Dialogue, with a Focus on Dialogue in Theology and Education
The growing religious pluralisation of modern societies has placed the question of religions and dialogue at the centre of public and academic attention.
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The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights
Hans Joas. 2013. The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights. Georgetown University Press, 224 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1589019690...
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Faith or Social Foci? Happiness, Religion, and Social Networks in Sweden
Christofer Edling, Jens Rydgren and Love Bohman. 2014. Faith or Social Foci? Happiness, Religion, and Social Networks in Sweden. European So...
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Die Macht des Heiligen. Eine Alternative zur Geschichte von der Entzauberung
Joas, Hans. 2017. Die Macht des Heiligen. Eine Alternative zur Geschichte von der Entzauberung. Berlin: Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/bu...
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Religion in the Era of Postsecularism (1st ed.)
Okeja, Uchenna (Ed.). 2019. Religion in the Era of Postsecularism (1st ed.). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Religion-in-the-Era-of-Pos...
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Theological ethics in the intersection of moral psychology and sociology
There is a long-standing debate in theological ethics (as well as in moral philosophy) between, on the one hand, theories that thinks of ethics as a form of decision theory that can overcome the contingency and arbitrariness of the human body (emotions and intuitions) and the socio-historical context, and, on the other hand, understandings of ethics that sees ethics as an embodied practice embedded in traditions, narratives, social practices, institutions, and concerned with moral formation.
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Faith and Fabric
Relations between faith and the fabric – whether political, social, economic, cultural or moral – of communities, societies and the global world are increasingly studied in many disciplines, not primarily because of the popular claim that religion is back and the fact that the so-called secularization theory is today rejected by many, but rather since many scholars increasingly recognize the public role of faith, not in the sense of religious convictions, communities and traditions, but in the sense of basic axioms and values, core beliefs and commitments (Taylor), cardinal convictions (Huber), notions of the sacred (Joas), in short, the faith of the faithless (Critchley).
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Many Modernities ‐ Religious freedom in South Africa and Sweden
In Europe with a history of religious wars and big national churches, freedom of religion is often understood as freedom from, at least from institutional religion.
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Exploring interpretations of the constitution and the bible as “sacred texts” in constructing (un)equal gendered environments
Culture, religion, gender, ethnicity, race and history influence processes of identity formation and social relationships.
