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Religion and the Discourse on Modernity

  • Paperback
  • 170 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1 cm

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For scholars interested in religion and modern thought

Challenges the traditional views on religious studies

You will gain fresh insights into modernity and justice

This book explores the intersection of religion and modernity through a critical lens.

The point of departure for this book is the debate about whether religious studies should privilege explanation or understanding. Engaging with contemporary scholarship in the field, Tremlett argues that the study of religions has always involved the conflation of facts and values and indeed has been structured in advance by the value- saturated discourse on disenchanted modernity. He argues that phenomenological and post-modern approaches to religions lack both theoretical and methodological coherence, and in their stead proposes a Marxist approach to religions that is at once empirical and informed by values pertaining to social justice, freedom and autonomy.
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  • Title

    Religion and the Discourse on Modernity

  • Author

    Paul-Francois Tremlett

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    January 2012

  • Weight

    246g

  • Page Count

    170

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781441172341

  • ISBN-10

    1441172343

  • Eden Code

    4030009

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