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Phenomenology and the Post-Secular Turn: Contemporary Debates on the 'Return of Religion'

Phenomenology and the Post-Secular Turn: Contemporary Debates on the 'Return of Religion'

Staudigl, Michael
Alvis, Jason W.

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1138543160
ISBN13: 9781138543164
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 16 2018
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Are we living in a 'post-secular age', and can phenomenology help us better understand the discontents of secularism? From Habermas' claim that the secular hypothesis has failed for democratic reasons to the fact that religion, far from its predicted dwindling, is as strong as ever (or even stronger than before), some have concluded that secularism as we know it is over. Others have questioned whether we have ever truly been secular, if the concept applies only to European societies, or whether the very notion of religiosity is merely a weapon of pacification in the hands of Western universalism. The post-secular notion thus lingers between sociological fact and philosophical theory, and it is the latter that we need to investigate if we want to confront the challenges that any 'return of religion' entails.

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