Social Imaginaries in a Globalizing World

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-11-044183-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: ISSN

How to study the contemporary dynamics between the religious, the nonreligious and the secular in a globalizing world? Obviously, their relationship is not an empirical datum, liable to the procedures of verification or of logical deduction. We are in need of alternative conceptual and methodological tools. This volume argues that the concept of ‘social imaginary’ as it is used by Charles Taylor, is of utmost importance as a methodological tool to understand these dynamics. The first section is dedicated to the conceptual clarification of Taylor's notion of social imaginaries both through a historical study of their genealogy and through conceptual analysis. In the second section, we clarify the relation of ‘social imaginaries’ to the concept of (religious) worldviewing, understood as a process of truth seeking. Furthermore, we discuss the practical usefulness of the concept of social imaginaries for cultural scientists, by focusing on the concept of human rights as a secular social imaginary. In the third and final section, we relate Taylor's view on the role of social imaginaries and the new paths it opens up for religious studies to other analyses of the secular-religious divide, as they nowadays mainly come to the fore in the debates on what is coined as the ‘post-secular.’

Zielgruppe

Scholars of religion, Sociologists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanheeswijck, Guido

Alma, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Politik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum: Sachbuch, Erbauungsliteratur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung

Über Autor(innen)

Hans Alma, Universität Utrecht, Niederlande und Guido Vanheeswijk, Universität Antwerpen, Belgien.

Hans Alma, Universität Utrecht, Niederlande und Guido Vanheeswijk, Universität Antwerpen, Belgien.