Secularization and the World Religions
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
This volume concerns itself with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. Dealing with the major religious traditions and their explicit or implicit ideas about the individual, social, and political order, as well as offering an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas, Secularization and the World Religions analyzes the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion—as well as the role of the natural sciences—in a global perspective. Contributors include such internationally renowned scholars as Winfried Brugger, José Casanova, Hans Joas, and Hans Kippenberg.
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Hans Joas and Klaus Wiegandt
Society, State and Religion: Their Relationship from the Perspective of the World Religions: An Introduction
Hans Joas
1 Catholic Christianity
Cardinal Karl Lehmann
2 Protestantism
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf
3 The Departure and Return of God: Secularization and Theologization in Judaism
Eckart Otto
4 Islam and Secularization
Gudrun Krämer
5 Hinduism
Heinrich von Stietencron
6 Secularization: Confucianism and Buddhism
Rudolf G. Wagner
7 From Hostility through Recognition to Identification: State-Church Models and their Relationship to Freedom of Religion
Winfried Brugger
8 ‘Science Doesn’t Tremble’: The Secular Natural Sciences and the Modern Feeling for Life
Ernst Peter Fischer
9 The Religious Situation in Europe
José Casanova
10 The Religious Situation in the USA
Hans Joas
11 The Religious Situation in East Asia
Joachim Gentz
12 The Relevance of the European Model of Secularization in Latin America and Africa
David Martin
13 The Desecularization of the Middle East Conflict: From a Conflict between States to a Conflict between Religious Communities
Hans G. Kippenberg
Afterword
Klaus Wiegandt
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