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Encountering Religion : Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism / Tyler Roberts.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and CulturePublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231147521
  • 9780231535496
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200.7 23
LOC classification:
  • BL51 .R576 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. LOCATING RELIGION -- 1. Religion and Incongruity -- 2. Placing Religion -- PART II. ENCOUNTERING RELIGION -- 3. Encountering the Human -- 4. Encountering Th eology -- PART III. RELIGION, RESPONSIBILITY, AND CRITICISM -- 5. Religion and Responsibility -- 6. On Psychotheology -- 7. Criticism as Conduct of Gratitude -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of religion" and an ideological and authoritarian "religion," he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach the field as a site of "encounter" and "response," illuminating the agency, creativity, and critical awareness of religious actors. To respond to religion is to ask what religious behaviors and representations mean to us in our individual worlds, and scholars must confront questions of possibility and becoming that arise from testing their beliefs, imperatives, and practices. Roberts refers to the work of Hent de Vries, Eric Santner, and Stanley Cavell, each of whom exemplifies encounter and response in their writings as they traverse philosophy and religion to expose secular thinking to religious thought and practice. This approach highlights the resources religious discourse can offer to a fundamental reorientation of critical thought. In humanistic criticism after secularism, the lines separating the creative, the pious, and the critical themselves become the subject of question and experimentation.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. LOCATING RELIGION -- 1. Religion and Incongruity -- 2. Placing Religion -- PART II. ENCOUNTERING RELIGION -- 3. Encountering the Human -- 4. Encountering Th eology -- PART III. RELIGION, RESPONSIBILITY, AND CRITICISM -- 5. Religion and Responsibility -- 6. On Psychotheology -- 7. Criticism as Conduct of Gratitude -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of religion" and an ideological and authoritarian "religion," he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach the field as a site of "encounter" and "response," illuminating the agency, creativity, and critical awareness of religious actors. To respond to religion is to ask what religious behaviors and representations mean to us in our individual worlds, and scholars must confront questions of possibility and becoming that arise from testing their beliefs, imperatives, and practices. Roberts refers to the work of Hent de Vries, Eric Santner, and Stanley Cavell, each of whom exemplifies encounter and response in their writings as they traverse philosophy and religion to expose secular thinking to religious thought and practice. This approach highlights the resources religious discourse can offer to a fundamental reorientation of critical thought. In humanistic criticism after secularism, the lines separating the creative, the pious, and the critical themselves become the subject of question and experimentation.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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