A God of One's Own : Religion's Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence


Ulrich. Beck
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2014.
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1 online resource (243 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1: The Diary of a 'God of One's Own': Etty Hillesum: An Unsociological Introduction; Etty Hillesum; A life of one's own, a room of one's own, a God of one's own; 2: The Return of the Gods and the Crisis of European Modernity: A Sociological Introduction; Disagreements between the religions and the civilizing of world society; Farewell to secularization?; Secularization - a European special path?; The paradox of secularization. - Religious universalismThe dualism of good and evil; Three examples: Colonialism, mixed marriages, Catholic cosmopolitanism; Colonialism; 'Be on your guard against mixed marriages!'; Catholic cosmopolitanism; How is a separation of powers to be effected in the realm of the absolute?; Individualization and cosmopolitization: Religion in the framework of reflexive modernization; The theory of reflexive modernization; The distinction between cosmopolitization and globalization; The distinction between cosmopolitanism and universalism as exemplified by the religions. - The Christian critique of heresy: Sebastian Castellio. - The distinction between descriptive and normative religious cosmopolitanismCosmopolitan society; The society of the religions; The individualization of religion; The relationship between cosmopolitization and individualization; Ten core theses; 4: Heresy or the Invention of a 'God of One's Own'; The individualistic misunderstanding of individualization; Heresy and orthodoxy: Concerning the historical improbability of religious freedom; On the dialectic of fundamental Christian principles and Christian institutions; Individualization One: The 'invention' of a God of one's own: Martin Luther. - The key to the 'revitalization' of religiosity in Europe is the decoupling of (institutional) religion and (subjective) faithThe authority principle underlying the revival of faith is the sovereignself; Pluralization strengthened by the growth of non-Christian religions; The mass mediatization of religion: The phenomenon of Pope Benedict XVI; Multiple modernities, multiple forms of secularization; New forms of coexistence and conflict amongthe world religions: How are conflicts between world religions to be civilized?; 'Imagined communities' of a religiously determined global sociality. - The shock of discovering that the European or Western model of modernity is not universalHow to civilize conflicts among the world religions; The irony of the unforeseen consequences of the individualization of religion; The question of the type of tolerance whose goal is not truth but peace; 3: Tolerance and Violence: The Two Faces of the Religions; What does 'religion' mean?; Religion, religious; Religion is globalization from the outset; Key features of religion: Erase boundaries, overcome boundaries, establish boundaries; Overcoming pre-existing hierarchies and boundaries. - Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says: 'We are all equal in the sight of God'. To be sure, this equality applies only to those who acknowledge God's existence. What this means is that alongside the abolition of class and nation within the community of believers, religion introduces a new fundamental distinction into the world the distinction between the right kind of believers and the wrong kind. Thus overtly or tacitly, religion brings with it the demonization
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9780745646183. - 9780745646190

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