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OverviewFrom the 1960s until his death in 2013, Robert N. Bellah was the preeminent figure in the study of religion and society. He broke new ground in mapping the religious dimensions of human experience, from the great breakthroughs of the first millennium BCE to the paradoxes of American civic life. In three final essays, published here for the first time, Bellah grapples with the contradictions of modernity, and seven leading thinkers respond with profound, exhilarating new perspectives on our present predicament. Challenging Modernity critically assesses the modern project to shed light on the tensions between its transcendent aspirations and the perils we now face. Its contributors analyze the roots of the collapse of the political, economic, and cultural institutions that have promised perpetual progress but now threaten global catastrophe. Reflecting the range of Bellah's scholarship, they span the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. They extend Bellah's insight that only deep historical, cultural, and religious understanding can help us meet modernity's harrowing challenges by sharing responsibility for the global interdependence of our common fate. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert N. Bellah , Richard Madsen , William M. Sullivan , Ann SwidlerPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231214889ISBN 10: 023121488 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 16 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction, by Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton Part I. Diagnosing Modernity 1. The Modern Project in the Light of Human Evolution, by Robert N. Bellah 2. Turning Off Nature’s Thermostats: Technology, Ecology, and Deep History, by Kyle Harper 3. Thermostatlessness: The Project of Modernity and the Process of Modernization: Reflections on Robert Bellah’s Account of the Late Modern Predicament, by Hartmut Rosa Part II. The Modern Project 4. Prologue in Heaven (or Hell) to the Modern Project, by Robert N. Bellah 5. Culture and Hope: Reflections on Bellah’s Unfinished Project, by Ana Marta González 6. Axiality and the Critique of Power, by Alan Strathern 7. Organic Social Ethic: Universalism Without Egalitarianism, by Hans Joas Part III. The Challenge of Modernity 8. The Tillich Lecture: Paul Tillich and the Challenge of Modernity, by Robert N. Bellah 9. On the Search for “A Serious Ethical Form of Individualism”: Bellah, Tillich, and the Anthropology of Christian Individualism, by Joel Robbins 10. “Disenchantment of the World” or Fragmentation of the Sacred?, by Philip Gorski Conclusion, by Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton Contributors IndexReviewsRobert Bellah is one of the most important American social scientists and public intellectuals of the last sixty years. Challenging Modernity contributes to a much needed discussion of all the urgent critical issues which we are facing today. -- José Casanova, author of <i>Public Religions in the Modern World</i> There is no other book like this, nor is there likely to be one, and there was no better team to work together on this effort to advance Bellah's thinking into his planned next book and beyond. Challenging Modernity reveals Bellah’s last writing and does an admirable job of raising Bellah’s themes about the enduring tensions that bedevil modern life. It will take an honored place as the concluding volume in a remarkable shelf of studies in the distinguished career of one of sociology’s greatest contemporary minds. -- Mark Juergensmeyer, author of <i>Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State</i> Author InformationRobert N. Bellah (1927–2013) was the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (2011). Richard Madsen is distinguished research professor and director of the UC-Fudan Center for Research on Contemporary China at the University of California, San Diego. William M. Sullivan is senior scholar at the Center for Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College. Ann Swidler is a professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Steven M. Tipton is Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Religion at Emory University and its Candler School of Theology. Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, and Tipton are coauthors of the landmark book Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (1985). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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