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Religion and the Political Imagination
Contributor(s): Katznelson, Ira (Editor), Stedman Jones, Gareth (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0521766540     ISBN-13: 9780521766548
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $70.30  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
Dewey: 211.609
LCCN: 2010017812
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.60 lbs) 394 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global process by nineteenth-century thinkers, the theory was given substance by the precipitate drop in religious practice across Western Europe in the 1960s. However, the re-emergence of acute conflicts at the interface between religion and politics has confounded such assumptions. It is clear that these ideas must be rethought. Yet, as this distinguished, international team of scholars reveal, not everything contained in the idea of secularisation was false. Analyses of developments since 1500 reveal a wide spectrum of historical processes: partial secularisation in some spheres has been accompanied by sacralisation in others. Utilising new approaches derived from history, philosophy, politics and anthropology, the essays collected in Religion and the Political Imagination offer new ways of thinking about the urgency of religious issues in the contemporary world.

Contributor Bio(s): Stedman Jones, Gareth: - Gareth Stedman Jones is Professor of Political Thought in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. A fellow of King's College, Cambridge since 1974, he is also Director of the Centre for History and Economics and a Member of the Conseil Scientifique of the CNRS. Professor Stedman Jones has published numerous books and articles on Victorian London and modern European political thought.Katznelson, Ira: - Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University and Research Associate at the Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Professor Katznelson has published widely on the history of the western liberal tradition.
 
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