Religious Studies

Guy G. Stroumsa

Religion as Intellectual Challenge in the Long Twentieth Century

Selected Essays

[Religion als intellektuelle Herausforderung im langen zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Ausgewählte Aufsätze.]

2021. X, 242 pages.
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A century ago, many leading European intellectuals thought that religion was doomed to soon become marginal; today, we are struck by the complexity of religious transformations in our globalized world. The essays in this volume by Guy G. Stroumsa examine how some leading intellectuals and scholars have approached religious phenomena and comment on crucial problems in the contemporary study of religion.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, many leading European intellectuals, perceiving that religion was in rapid decline in their secularizing societies, thought that it was doomed to soon become marginal, and eventually to disappear, throughout the world. A century later, such naïve beliefs have collapsed. We are struck by the complexity of religious transformations in our globalized world. Today, religion often appears to have been hijacked by murderous »thugs for God's sake,« who come in various shapes and colours, but always with the same intentions they are often also willing to act on. In the essays in this volume, Guy G. Stroumsa reflects on some leading intellectuals, such as Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas and Carlo Ginzburg, and how they approached an understanding of religious phenomena from their own disciplinary viewpoints. The volume closes with comments on crucial problems and methods in the contemporary study of religion.
Authors/Editors

Guy G. Stroumsa Born 1948; 1978 PhD; Dr. h. c. Zurich; Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, and Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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In: https://blogs.rpi-virtuell.de — https://blogs.rpi-virtuell.de/buchempfehlungen/2023/04/27/stroumsa-religion/ (Christoph Auffarth)