Seven Ways of Looking at Religion: The Major Narratives by Schewel, Benjamin

Seven Ways of Looking at Religion: The Major Narratives

An ambitious young scholar's lucid analysis of religion's shifting place in the modern world Western intellectuals have...
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Author: Benjamin Schewel
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Seven Ways of Looking at Religion: The Major Narratives by Schewel, Benjamin

Seven Ways of Looking at Religion: The Major Narratives

Dhs. 187.82

Seven Ways of Looking at Religion: The Major Narratives

Dhs. 187.82
Author: Benjamin Schewel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
An ambitious young scholar's lucid analysis of religion's shifting place in the modern world

Western intellectuals have long theorized that religion would undergo a process of marginalization and decline as the forces of modernity advanced. Yet recent events have disrupted this seductively straightforward story. As a result, while it is clear that religion has somehow evolved from its tribal beginnings up through modernity and into the current global age, there is no consensus about what kind of narrative of religious change we should alternatively tell. Seeking clarity, Benjamin Schewel organizes and evaluates the prevalent narratives of religious history that scholars have deployed over the past century and are advancing today. He argues that contemporary scholarly discourse on religion can be categorized according to seven central narratives: subtraction, renewal, transsecular, postnaturalist, construct, perennial, and developmental. Examining the basic logic, insights, and limitations of each of these narratives, Schewel ranges from Martin Heidegger to Muhammad Iqbal, from Daniel Dennett to Charles Taylor, to offer an incisive, broad, and original perspective on religion in the modern world.

Author: Benjamin Schewel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 09/26/2017
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780300218473


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/12/2017
Choice 04/01/2018

About the Author
Benjamin Schewel is a fellow in the Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain at the University of Groningen and an affiliate scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.


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