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This book collects articles first presented at the Deakin University World in Crisis workshop in November 2010 by leading Australasian philosophers and theologians. The chapters within it will address questions raised by the recent, much-touted return to religion. Why is this turn occurring now? What are its practical, political, and intellectual prospects? Are the forms of religion that the new atheists declaim, or the new post-secular thinkers propose returning to, really points of external resistance to liberal modernity, or its by-products? Is religion only ever a force of political reaction in modernity, or are there resources in it which progressive, even secular social movements, could engage with or adopt? Are the new atheisms, or on the opposite side, the new fundamentalisms, really novel phenomena, or has religion only ever been artificially sidelined in the modern Western states? Has modern liberalism only really been kidding itself about its non-doctrinal neutrality between different faiths, and if so, what should follow?

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Secularisations and Their Debates
• Subtitle: Perspectives on the Return of Religion in the Contemporary West
• Author: Matthew Sharpe, Dylan Nickelson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 235
• EAN: 9789400771154
• ISBN: 9400771150
• ID: 01980772
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 4912 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. October 2013

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