Research Catalog

Title

Narratives of disenchantment and secularization : critiquing Max Weber's idea of modernity / edited by Robert A. Yelle and Lorenz Trein.

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Yelle, Robert A.
• Trein, Lorenz

Description

vii, 262 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"What does it really mean to be modern? The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber's historical idea of disenchantment and to develop further his understanding of what the contested relationship between modernity and religion represents. The approach is distinctive because it focuses on disenchantment as key to understanding those aspects of modern society and culture that Weber diagnosed. This is in opposition to approaches that focus on secularization, narrowly construed as the rise of secularism or the divide between religion and politics, and that then conflate this with modernization as a whole. Other novel contributions are discussions of temporality - meaning the sense of time or of historical change that posits a separation between an ostensibly secular modernity and its religious past - and of the manner in which such a sense of time is constructed and disseminated through narratives that themselves may resemble religious myths. It reflects the idea that disenchantment is a narrative with either Enlightenment, Romantic, or Christian roots, thereby developing a conversation between critical studies in the field of secularism (such as those of Talal Asad and Gil Anidjar) and conceptual history approaches to secularization and modernity (such as those of Karl Löwith and Reinhart Koselleck), and in the process creates something that is more than merely the sum of its parts."--Publisher's description

Subject

• Weber, Max, 1864-1920
• Christian sociology
• Civilization, Modern > Philosophy
• Secularization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-249) and index.

Contents

introduction / Robert A. Yelle and Lorenz Trein -- Dialectics of disenchantment : the devaluation of the objective world and the revaluation of subjective religiosity / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Max Weber and the rationalization of magic / Jason A. Josephson-Storm -- Science as a commodity : disenchantment and conspicuous consumption / Egil Asprem -- Multiple times of disenchantment and secularization / Lorenz Trein -- The disenchanted enchantments of the modern imagination and "fictionalism" / Michael Saler -- Narratives of disenchantment, narratives of secularization : radical enlightenment and the rise of the illiberal secular / Jonathan Israel -- "An age of miracles" : disenchantment as a secularized theological narrative / Robert A. Yelle -- Counter-narratives to secularization : merits and limits of genealogy critique / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr.

Call Number

JFE 21-3724

ISBN

• 9781350145641
• 1350145645

OCLC

1197757814

Title

Narratives of disenchantment and secularization : critiquing Max Weber's idea of modernity / edited by Robert A. Yelle and Lorenz Trein.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-249) and index.

Added Author

Yelle, Robert A., editor.

Trein, Lorenz, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3724