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Secularization and the world religions / edited by Hans Joas and Klaus Wiegandt ; translated by Alex Skinner.

Contributor(s): Wiegandt, Klaus | Joas, Hans, 1948- | Skinner, Alex | Forum für Verantwortung
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: First English editionDescription: x, 325 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846311888 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1846311888 (pbk. : alk. paper)Uniform titles: Säkularisierung und die Weltreligionen. Subject(s): Secularization (Theology) -- Congresses | Religions -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Foreword / Hans Joas and Klaus Wiegandt -- Society, state and religion : their relationship from the perspective of the world religions : an introduction / Hans Joas -- Catholic Christianity / Cardinal Karl Lehmann -- Protestantism / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf -- The departure and return of God : secularization and theologization in Judaism / Eckart Otto -- Islam and secularization / Gudrun Krämer -- Hinduism / Heinrich von Stietencron -- Secularization : Confucianism and Buddhism / Rudolf G. Wagner -- From hostility through recognition to identification : state-church models and their relationship to freedom of religion / Winfried Brugger -- 'Science doesn't tremble' : the secular natural sciences and the modern feeling for life / Ernst Peter Fischer -- The religious situation in Europe / José Casanova -- The religious situation in the USA / Hans Joas -- The religious situation in East Asia / Joachim Gentz -- The relevance of the European model of secularization in Latin America and Africa / David Martin -- The desecularization of the Middle East conflict : from a conflict between states to a conflict between religious communities / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Afterword / Klaus Wiegandt.

Proceedings of the fifth conference of the Forum für Verantwortung foundation, held March 31-April 5, 2006, at the European Academy, Otzenhausen (Saarland).

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Hans Joas and Klaus Wiegandt -- Society, state and religion : their relationship from the perspective of the world religions : an introduction / Hans Joas -- Catholic Christianity / Cardinal Karl Lehmann -- Protestantism / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf -- The departure and return of God : secularization and theologization in Judaism / Eckart Otto -- Islam and secularization / Gudrun Krämer -- Hinduism / Heinrich von Stietencron -- Secularization : Confucianism and Buddhism / Rudolf G. Wagner -- From hostility through recognition to identification : state-church models and their relationship to freedom of religion / Winfried Brugger -- 'Science doesn't tremble' : the secular natural sciences and the modern feeling for life / Ernst Peter Fischer -- The religious situation in Europe / José Casanova -- The religious situation in the USA / Hans Joas -- The religious situation in East Asia / Joachim Gentz -- The relevance of the European model of secularization in Latin America and Africa / David Martin -- 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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