Secular Religions

The Key Concepts
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-74846-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 537 g

Reihe: Routledge Key Guides

Secular Religions: The Key Concepts provides a concise guide to those ideologies, worldviews, and social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that are most often described as the modern counterparts of traditional religions.

Although there are many other terms in use (quasi, pseudo, ersatz, political, civil, etc.), it is “secular religion” that best expresses the problematic nature of all such descriptions, which maintain that modern belief systems and practices are secular on the one hand and religious on the other. Today, the topic is as popular as ever, and secular religions are discovered far and wide. Hence, a critical summary is urgently necessary. The juxtaposed title is itself an expression of ironic distance. The book emphasizes inherent tensions of relevant literature in a critical and informative fashion. The author provides over 100 entries, from abortion to wokeness, as well as a detailed introduction, which gives an overview of the different definitions of “religion” and “secular religion” as well as the history of secular-religious comparisons. The main text reconstructs the argument of several key works on each given topic, while lists of sources for further reading are provided at the end of each entry.

This book provides a clear introduction to “secular religions” and will appeal to researchers and students of religious studies, political philosophy, political theology, the history of ideologies, and cultural studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nyirkos, Tamás

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

A Abortion  Anarchism  Animal Rights  Anti-Racism  Art  Artificial Intelligence  Atheism

B  Beauty  Biotechnology  BLM  Bolshevism  Boxing

C  Capitalism  Celeb culture  Climate Activism  Cloning  Colonialism  Communism  Computer Science  Constitutionalism  Consumerism  Critical Race Theory  Cultural Marxism

D Dataism  Darwinism  Democracy  DNA

E  Ecology  Economics  Electism  Enlightenment  Entertainment  Environmentalism  Evolutionism

F Fandom Fascism Feminism Fitness Food Football

G Gender Genetics

H Health History Humanism Human Rights

I Individualism

J Juche

K Kung Fu

L Legalism Leninism Liberalism Love

M Maoism Marxism Medicine Multiculturalism

N Nationalism Nazism Nietzscheism Neoliberalism

O Olympism

P Pacifism Panopticism Patriotism Personality Cult Political Correctness Pop Culture Populism Positivism Postcolonialism Posthumanism Postmodernism Progress Psychology

R  Racism Republicanism Revolution Rock

S Scientism Selfies Selfism Sex Singularity Skateboarding Social Justice Culture Social Media Socialism Sports Stalinism  Statism  Superintelligence

T Technology Thinness Transhumanism

U UFOs  UN  Übermensch

V Veganism  Vegetarianism

W War Warmism Wokeness

Über Autor(innen)

Tamás Nyirkos is Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Politics and Government at the Ludovika University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary, and Associate Professor of the Institute of International Studies and Political Science at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary.