The Dialectics of the Religious and the Secular : Studies on the Future of Religion.

Intro -- The Dialectics of the Religious and the Secular -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword - The Siebert Manifesto of the Critical Theory: An Appreciation -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Future of Religion: Toward the City of Being -- 2. The Migration of Religious Longing for the "Other" into the Historical Materialist Critical Theory of Utopia in the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno and Ernst Bloch -- 3. Bilderverbot and Utopia: God without Image - Other World Unannounced -- 4. Theo-Utopian Hearing: Ernst Bloch on Music -- 5. What is the Meaning of "Culture"? Some Comments and Perspectives -- 6. Towards a Global Ethos? Notes on the Philosophy of Encounter -- 7. On the Origin of Religious Discourse -- 8. The Future of Faith, the Subaltern Scientia: Lonergan and Aquinas -- 9. Religion in the Trap of Globalization -- 10. Bahá'í Religion as a New Religious Movement? -- 11. Religious Freedom in Contemporary Croatian Society (From 1997 to 2008) -- 12. Religiosity and Attitudes Towards Sexuality and Marriage in Croatia -- 13 Politicization of the Religious Environment in Ukraine -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

In The Dialectics of the Religious and the Secular, fifteen international scholars address the question of the relevancy, meaning, and future of religion within the increasing antagonisms between the religious and secular realms of modern civil society and its globalization.

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