The Ontology of Gods: An Account of Enchantment, Disenchantment, and Re-Enchantment, George Jibu Mathew
Автор: Josephson-Storm Jason A. Название: The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences ISBN: 022640336X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226403366 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 29570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted?
Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain, France, and Germany were in the midst of occult and spiritualist revivals. Indeed, Josephson-Storm argues, these disciplines' founding figures were not only aware of, but profoundly enmeshed in, the occult milieu; and it was specifically in response to this burgeoning culture of spirits and magic that they produced notions of a disenchanted world.
By providing a novel history of the human sciences and their connection to esotericism, The Myth of Disenchantment dispatches with most widely held accounts of modernity and its break from the premodern past.
Автор: Brian Black, Gavin Hyman, Graham M. Smith Название: Confronting Secularism in Europe and India: Legitimacy and Disenchantment in Contemporary Times ISBN: 1474269222 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474269223 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: As western secularism experiences a crisis of confidence, where may we look for guidance as to the way forward? Confronting Secularism in Europe and India shows western thinking may be inspired by Indian conceptions to develop its own secular trajectory as one way of addressing the most pressing problems of contemporary times.
The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber's historical idea of disenchantment and to develop further his understanding of what the contested relationship between modernity and religion represents. The approach is distinctive because it focuses on disenchantment as key to understanding those aspects of modern society and culture that Weber diagnosed. This is in opposition to approaches that focus on secularization, narrowly construed as the rise of secularism or the divide between religion and politics, and that then conflate this with modernization as a whole.
Other novel contributions are discussions of temporality - meaning the sense of time or of historical change that posits a separation between an ostensibly secular modernity and its religious past - and of the manner in which such a sense of time is constructed and disseminated through narratives that themselves may resemble religious myths. It reflects the idea that disenchantment is a narrative with either Enlightenment, Romantic, or Christian roots, thereby developing a conversation between critical studies in the field of secularism (such as those of Talal Asad and Gil Anidjar) and conceptual history approaches to secularization and modernity (such as those of Karl Lцwith and Reinhart Koselleck), and in the process creates something that is more than merely the sum of its parts.
For Augustine the world is replete with meaning; it represents not merely a collection of facts to be catalogued but a repository of truths to be discovered and discerned, a view which contrasts with the one we have inherited as a result of the thought of figures such as Descartes, Newton, and Kant. What difference would it make to see the world as created?
Matthew W. Knotts explores this question in close conversation with Augustine, according to whom our nature as God's creatures determines fundamental aspects of our identity and our knowledge. In a postmodern context informed by a renewed appreciation of the limitations of human nature and reason, Augustine once again emerges as an insightful and compelling source for further reflection.
Автор: Bilgrami Akeel Название: Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment ISBN: 0674052048 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674052048 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 50630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Bringing clarity to a subject clouded by polemic, Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment is a rigorous exploration of how secularism and identity emerged as concepts in different parts of the modern world. At a time when secularist and religious worldviews appear irreconcilable, Akeel Bilgrami strikes out on a path distinctly his own, criticizing secularist proponents and detractors, liberal universalists and multicultural relativists alike.
Those who ground secularism in arguments that aspire to universal reach, Bilgrami argues, fundamentally misunderstand the nature of politics. To those, by contrast, who regard secularism as a mere outgrowth of colonial domination, he offers the possibility of a more conceptually vernacular ground for political secularism. Focusing on the response to Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Bilgrami asks why Islamic identity has so often been a mobilizing force against liberalism, and he answers the question with diagnostic sympathy, providing a philosophical framework within which the Islamic tradition might overcome the resentments prompted by its colonized past and present.
Turning to Gandhi's political and religious thought, Bilgrami ponders whether the increasing appeal of religion in many parts of the world reflects a growing disillusionment not with science but with an outlook of detachment around the rise of modern science and capitalism. He elaborates a notion of enchantment along metaphysical, ethical, and political lines with a view to finding in secular modernity a locus of meaning and value, while addressing squarely the anxiety that all such notions hark back nostalgically to a time that has past.
Автор: Zakai Avihu Название: Jonathan Edwards`s Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning ISBN: 0567356701 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780567356703 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 168590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) on natural philosophy. This title places Edwards` writings on natural philosophy in the historical, theological and scientific context of a variety of religious responses to the rise of modern science in the early modern period.
Автор: Partridge, Christopher H. Название: Re-enchantment of the west alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture and occulture ISBN: 0567041336 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780567041333 Издательство: Continuum Рейтинг: Цена: 100090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Challenging theories that predict widespread secularization beyond traditional institutional religiosity, this book provides a series of specific studies which illustrate the re-enchantment and occulture theses developed in volume one. It examines, for example, healthcare and nursing, contemporary environmentalism, psychedelia and drug use.
Автор: Landy Joshua, Saler Michael Название: The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age ISBN: 1503628949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503628946 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the "progressive disenchantment of the world." Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the vacuum left by departed convictions, and to do so without invoking superseded belief systems. In fact, modernity produces an array of strategies for re-enchantment, each fully compatible with secular rationality. It has to, because God has many "aspects"—or to put it in more secular terms, because traditional religion offers so much in so many domains. From one thinker to the next, the question of just what, in religious enchantment, needs to be replaced in a secular world receives an entirely different answer. Now, for the first time, many of these strategies are laid out in a single volume, with contributions by specialists in literature, history, and philosophy.
Автор: Ja Wallin Название: On What Is: A Freedom Enchantment in 23 Acts ISBN: 1561845426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781561845422 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 44310.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Join herb and his cast of interlocutors (which includes (the goddess) Sophia) as they investigate the way of the physical realm, the way of Mind, and in general, What is. Many timely issues confronting humans (and you k-now who you are) are teased about, including the underlying nature of that mysterious fluid type magical substance called electricity, the shaman Bostroms simulation argument, and that most Dangerous of all undertakings whereupon the conspiracy of who Do you believe, issues associated with Being born into this world, ancient ideas associated with the Immortality of the soul, and the flexibility of time and the need for the divine are investigated ontologically. This Gnostic tour de force challenges today s trendy materialism by accepting the ontological necessity of other realm(s) besides the physical (implications in agreement with the quantum vacuum mechanisms of the modern physics). As an ontology of on What is is developed in detail, the machinations (and Hidden religion) of the cabal of maniac magicians (whom herb calls the sons of Beliel those sObs) occasionally need take center stage, whereupon the sObs dark magick of statecraft, usury, propaganda, and their Brain builders dream is criticized, and, most importantly, maybe, the difference between sorcery and theurgy is elucidated. Necessarily a book about the Computer, a book on Physics, a book on Mind, butt most aptly described as a freedom enchantment for those whom would be interested in light And life. (Sea, four example, the book dedication and oVerture, and then please begin your investigation, for indeed, every wo/man is a star).
Автор: Partridge, Christopher H. Название: Re-enchantment of the west understanding popular occulture ISBN: 0567084086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780567084088 Издательство: Continuum Рейтинг: Цена: 100090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary West, this books focuses on the nature, evolution and significance of new forms of religion and alternative spiritualities.
Part One of the book provides the theoretical background and guides the reader through some of the principal debates. After an overview of the secularization thesis, which argues that the West is becoming increasingly disenchanted, the second chapter turns to the sociological analysis of new religions and alternative spiritualities. Particular attention is given to the ideas of the sociologist of religion Ernst Troeltsch, especially his enigmatic analysis of the emergence mystical religion, which presciently provides helpful insights into understanding the contemporary alternative religious milieu. Against sociologists such as Bryan Wilson and Steve Bruce, this and the subsequent chapter argues that, rather than being insignificant, new forms of spirituality are actually proving to be a significant part of Western re-enchantment. Chapter 3 constructs a general theory of the re-enchantment of the West.
Автор: McCarraher Eugene Название: The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity ISBN: 0674984617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674984615 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 35850.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and evangelical valorizations of profit to the heavenly Fordist city, the mystically animated corporation, and the deification of the market, capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity, laying hold to our souls.
Автор: Mohamad Maznah Название: The Divine Bureaucracy and Disenchantment of Social Life: A Study of Bureaucratic Islam in Malaysia ISBN: 981152095X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811520952 Издательство: Springer Цена: 73910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia. Weber`s legal rational bureaucracy or Hegel`s ethical bureaucracy predominantly characterises a modern feature of governmentality.
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