Religious Responses to Modernity

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Religious Responses to Modernity

Edited by: Yohanan Friedmann and Christoph Markschies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723984

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The dawn of the modern age posed challenges to all of the world’s religions – and since then, religions have countered with challenges to modernity. In Religious Responses to Modernity, seven leading scholars from Germany and Israel explore specific instances of the face-off between religious thought and modernity, in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
As co-editor Christoph Markschies remarks in his Foreword, it may seem almost trivial to say that different religions, and the various currents within them, have reacted in very different ways to the “multiple modernities” described by S.N. Eisenstadt. However, things become more interesting when the comparative perspective leads us to discover surprising similarities. Disparate encounters are connected by their transnational or national perspectives, with the one side criticizing in the interest of rationality as a model of authorization, and the other presenting revelation as a critique of a depraved form of rationality. The thoughtful essays presented herein, by Simon Gerber, Johannes Zachhuber, Jonathan Garb, Rivka Feldhay, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Israel Gershoni and Christoph Schmidt, provide a counterweight to the popularity of some all-too-simplified models of modernization.

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Yohanan Friedmann, Jerusalem, Israel, and Christoph Markschies, Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Foreword Christoph Markschies Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
The Rise and Decline of Protestant Rationalism Simon Gerber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Individual and Community in Modern Debates about Religion and Secularism Johannes Zachhuber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
The Conversion of the Jews: Identity as Ontology in Modern Kabbalah Jonathan Garb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Catholic Europe and Sixteenth-Century Science: A Path to Modernity? Rivka Feldhay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Jewish Intellectuals on the Chimera of Progress: Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber and Leo Strauss Paul Mendes-Flohr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Depoliticization and Denationalization of Religion: Aḥmad Luṭfī al-Sayyid and the Relocation of Islam in Modern Life Israel Gershoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Socrates against Christ? A Theological Critique of Michel Foucault’s Philosophy of Parrhesia Christoph Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Contributors to This Volume Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of religious studies, intellectual history, Christianity, Judaism and Islam; historians, sociologists.
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 141
Keywords: Enlightenment; Kabbalah; philosophy; Modern times.

eBook

Published: February 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110723984

Hardcover

Published: February 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110723892

Paperback

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783111120737