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Book SynopsisThe Dialectics of the Religious and the Secular: Studies on the Future of Religion contains the work of 15 international scholars who have wrestled with the question of the relevancy, meaning and future of religion within the context of the increasing antagonisms between the religious and secular realms of modern civil society and its globalisation. Each author indicates the possibility of mitigating or preventing the continuation of this antagonism by historically moving toward a more reconciled and humane future global society.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgement About the Authors Introduction, MICHAEL R. OTT Foreword: The Siebert Manifesto of the Critical Theory: An Appreciation, DENIS R. JANZ 1. The Future of Religion: Toward the City of Being, RUDOLF J. SIEBERT 2. The Migration of Religious Longing for the “Other” into the Historical Materialist Critical Theory of Utopia in the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno and Ernst Bloch, MICHAEL R. OTT 3. Bilderverbot and Utopia: God without Image – Other World Unannounced, DUSTIN BYRD 4. Theo-Utopian Hearing: Ernst Bloch on Music, ROLAND BOER 5. What is the Meaning of “Culture”? Some Comments and Perspectives, GOTTFRIED KÜENZLEN 6. Towards a Global Ethos? Notes on the Philosophy of Encounter, JAN FENNEMA 7. On the Origin of Religious Discourse, FRANCIS BRASSARD 8. The Future of Faith, the Subaltern Scientia: Lonergan and Aquinas, DONALD DEVON III 9. Religion in the Trap of Globalization, MISLAV KUKOC 10. Bahá'í Religion as a New Religious Movement?, BRANKO ANCIC 11. Religious Freedom in Contemporary Croatian Society (From 1997 to 2008), NEVEN DUVNJAK & IVICA SOKOL 12. Religiosity and Attitudes Towards Sexuality and Marriage in Croatia, DINKA MARINOVIC JEROLIMOV 13. Politicization of the Religious Environment in Ukraine, ALEKSANDRA BARANOVA Appendix References Index
