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Beck A God of One's Own


Religion's Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

ISBN: 978-0-7456-9290-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Comparedto faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict areinsignificant. The New Testament says: 'We are all equal inthe sight of God'. To be sure, this equality applies only to thosewho acknowledge God's existence. What this means is that alongsidethe abolition of class and nation within the community ofbelievers, religion introduces a new fundamental distinction intothe world the distinction between the right kind of believers andthe wrong kind. Thus overtly or tacitly, religion brings with itthe demonization of believers in other faiths.
The central question that will decide the continued existence ofhumanity is this: How can we conceive of a type of inter-religioustolerance in which loving one's neighbor does not imply war to thedeath, a type of tolerance whose goal is not truth but peace?
Is what we are experiencing at present a regression ofmonotheistic religion to a polytheism of the religious spirit underthe heading of 'a God of one's own'? In Western societies,where the autonomy of the individual has been internalized,individual human beings tend to feel increasingly at liberty totell themselves little faith stories that fit their own lives toappoint 'Gods of their own'. However, this God of
their own is no longer the one and only God who presides oversalvation by seizing control of history and empowering hisfollowers to be intolerant and use naked force.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Beck, Ulrich

Weitere Infos & Material

Acknowledgements ix
I The diary of 'a God of one's own': Etty Hillesum. An unsociological introduction 1
II The return of the Gods and the crisis of European modernity. A sociological introduction 19
III Tolerance and violence: The two faces of the religions 47
IV Heresy or the invention of a 'God of one's own' 93
V The cunning of unintended consequences: How to civilize global religious conflicts. Five models 137
VI Peace instead of Truth? The futures of the religions in the world risk society 164
Bibliography 201
Index 220

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich

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