Secularization in Contemporary Religious Radicalism

An Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-905679-23-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

Reihe: Theological Seminar Series

The concept of secularization has grown to become one of the most important features of contemporary religious thought. This book introduces and examines the thinking of sixteen key theologions, philosophers and historians of religion to explain (a) why by the late nineteenth century the traditional concept of God as an ontologically real being came to be considered no longer necessary and (b) how the new perspective on God, which accepts him only as an idea, turned into the preferred approach of today’s religion and philosophy, namely “religious radicalism”.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simut, Corneliu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Über Autor(innen)

Corneliu C. Simut is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Emanuel University of Oradea, Romania, and Associate Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.