Secularization and the World Religions

This volume is concerned with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. The first part deals with major religious traditions and their explicit or implicit ideas about the individual, social and political order. The second part gives an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas. Additional contributions analyze the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion in a global perspective and the role of the natural sciences in the process of secularization. The contributors are internationally renowned scholars like Winfried Brugger, José Casanova, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Hans Joas, Hans G. Kippenberg, Gudrun Krämer, David Martin, Eckart Otto and Rudolf Wagner.

Hans Joas is Director of the Max Weber Center at the University of Erfurt and Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He has previously been Visiting Professor at: Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study, University of Wisconsin at Madison, New School for Social Research, New York and at Duke University. Klaus Wiegandt works for Forum für Verantwortung.

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ISBN Number 9781846311888

Author Joas, Hans and Wiegandt, Klaus

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