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Faith as an option : possible futures for Christianity / Hans Joas ; translated by Alex Skinner.

By: Language: English Original language: German Series: Cultural memory in the presentPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804792783 (electronic bk.)
  • 080479278X (electronic bk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Glaube als Option. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Faith as an optionDDC classification:
  • 270.8/3 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2747 J5813 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : secularization and intellectual honesty -- Does modernization lead to secularization? -- Does secularization lead to moral decline? -- Waves of secularization -- Modernization as culturally protestant metanarrative -- The age of contingency -- Increased options as a danger? -- Religious diversity and the pluralist society -- Religion and violence -- The future of Christianity -- Intellectual challenges for contemporary Christianity -- Conclusion : is Christianity leaving Europe behind?
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"Originally published in German in 2012 under the title Glaube als Option."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : secularization and intellectual honesty -- Does modernization lead to secularization? -- Does secularization lead to moral decline? -- Waves of secularization -- Modernization as culturally protestant metanarrative -- The age of contingency -- Increased options as a danger? -- Religious diversity and the pluralist society -- Religion and violence -- The future of Christianity -- Intellectual challenges for contemporary Christianity -- Conclusion : is Christianity leaving Europe behind?

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