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The Challenge of Religion after Modernity Beyond Disenchantment
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2003:If God has departed, as Baudrillard claims, is religion still relevant? A new religious landscape is appearing in the new millennium. The middle classes with their electronic technologies are producing a culture of commodified images and signs that is radically transforming the religious landscape and re-enchanting the world. Ecstatic experiences pervade the... Read more
Contents: Divinity after modernity; The immanence of charisma; The re-enchantment of the middle classes; Fundamentalism: revenge of the symbol; The renewal of Shamanism; The new religion of dreaming; The consequences of re-enchantment; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Lee, Raymond L. M.; Ackerman, Susan E.
'... there is much here of interest and importance. The book is more programmatic than detailed. It ought to promote further discussion and, hopefully, more extensive and detailed case studies in the area.' Theology
