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Varieties of religion today : William James revisited

"A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the English-speaking world returns to the questions posed in James's masterpiece to clarify the circumstances and conditions of religion in our day. An elegant mix of the philosophy and sociology of religion, Charles Taylor's powerful book maintains a clear perspective on James's work in its historical and cultural contexts, while casting a new and revealing light upon the present." "Lucid, readable, and dense with ideas that promise to transform current debates about religion and secularism, Varieties of Religion Today is much more than a revisiting of James's classic. Rather, it places James's analysis of religious experience and the dilemmas of doubt and belief in an unfamiliar but illuminating context, namely the social horizon in which questions of religion come to be presented to individuals in the first place.".

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  • ""A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the English-speaking world returns to the questions posed in James's masterpiece to clarify the circumstances and conditions of religion in our day. An elegant mix of the philosophy and sociology of religion, Charles Taylor's powerful book maintains a clear perspective on James's work in its historical and cultural contexts, while casting a new and revealing light upon the present." "Lucid, readable, and dense with ideas that promise to transform current debates about religion and secularism, Varieties of Religion Today is much more than a revisiting of James's classic. Rather, it places James's analysis of religious experience and the dilemmas of doubt and belief in an unfamiliar but illuminating context, namely the social horizon in which questions of religion come to be presented to individuals in the first place."."@en
  • ""Taylor begins with questions about the way in which James conceives his subject, and shows how these questions arise out of different ways of understanding religion that confronted one another in James's time and continue to do so today. Evaluating James's treatment of the ethics of belief, he goes on to develop an innovative and provocative reading of the public and cultural conditions in which questions of belief or unbelief are perceived to be individual questions. What emerges is a remarkable and penetrating view of the relation between religion and social order and, ultimately, of what "religion" means."--BOOK JACKET."@en
  • "Filosofisch essay over de betekenis van religie in de Noord-Atlantische wereld in een tijdperk van secularisatie en individualisme."
  • "Qual è il ruolo riservato alla religione nella tarda modernità? C'è ancora spazio per forme di religiosità non strettamente individualistiche o private? Ha senso definirsi al contempo cristiani e moderni? Nei due saggi raccolti in questo volume - "Le varie forme della religione oggi. A partire da William James" e "Una modernità cattolica?" - Taylor discute le numerose questioni irrisolte connesse all'idea e all'evento della secolarizzazione. A partire dalla propria esperienza personale di credente e in dialogo con pensatori come William James, Emile Durkheim, Renè Girard, egli analizza le ragioni della progressiva crisi della fede e della pratica religiosa nelle società moderne, e della loro apparente rinascita nel corso degli ultimi decenni."
  • "Publisher's description: A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the English-speaking world returns to the questions posed in James's masterpiece to clarify the circumstances and conditions of religion in our day. An elegant mix of the philosophy and sociology of religion, Charles Taylor's powerful book maintains a clear perspective on James's work in its historical and cultural contexts, while casting a new and revealing light upon the present. Lucid, readable, and dense with ideas that promise to transform current debates about religion and secularism, Varieties of Religion Today is much more than a revisiting of James's classic. Rather, it places James's analysis of religious experience and the dilemmas of doubt and belief in an unfamiliar but illuminating context, namely the social horizon in which questions of religion come to be presented to individuals in the first place. Taylor begins with questions about the way in which James conceives his subject, and shows how these questions arise out of different ways of understanding religion that confronted one another in James's time and continue to do so today. Evaluating James's treatment of the ethics of belief, he goes on to develop an innovative and provocative reading of the public and cultural conditions in which questions of belief or unbelief are perceived to be individual questions. What emerges is a remarkable and penetrating view of the relation between religion and social order and, ultimately, of what "religion" means."

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  • "Die Formen des Religiösen in der Gegenwart"
  • "La modernità della religione"
  • "La modernità della religione"@it
  • "Las variedades de la religión hoy"@es
  • "Las Variedades de la religión hoy"
  • "Varieties of religion today : William James revisited"@en
  • "Varieties of religion today : William James revisited"
  • "Varieties of religion today"
  • "Oblicza religii dzisiaj"@pl
  • "Raznovidnosti na religii︠a︡ta dnes : preosmisli︠a︡ne na Uili︠a︡m Dzheĭms"
  • "Die Formen des Reliösen in der Gegenwart"
  • "Wat betekent religie vandaag?"
  • "Les multiples dimensions de l'expérience religieuse aujourd'hui : William James revisité"
  • "La diversité de l'expérience religieuse aujourd'hui : William James revisité"
  • "Varieties of religion today William James revisited"@en

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