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Religion as a chain of Memory / Daniele Hervieu-Leeger

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: New.Jersey . :Polity Press 2000Description: x,204p. 24cmISBN:
  • 9780745620473
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6 HER
Contents:
Foreword / Grace Davie -- Doubt about the Subject Matter -- Sociology in Opposition to Religion? Preliminary Considerations -- From religious sociology to the sociology of religion -- Science opposed to religion -- Undermining the subject? -- The Fragmentation of Religion in Modern Societies -- The future of religion in the modern world: the classical sociological approaches -- Constructing a new perspective -- Defining religion: a new look at an old debate -- Religion and systems of meaning: an inclusive approach -- In contrast: a much more restrictive framework -- A false opposition -- One way out of the dilemma? -- The Elusive Sacred -- The sacred: an impossible concept -- The genealogy of the sacred: Isambert's contribution -- Emotional experience vis-a-vis religion -- Between the sacred and religion: the example of sport -- The sacred opposed to religion: the emotional culmination of secularization? -- As our Fathers Believed ... -- Religion as a Way of Believing -- Metaphorical religion, following Jean Seguy -- Towards an analysis of the transformation of belief in contemporary society -- Religion as a way of believing: the example of apocalyptic neo-rural communities -- Questions about Tradition -- Tradition opposed to modernity -- The creative power of tradition -- Religion as folklore -- The religious productions of modernity: is this concept meaningful? -- Back to the question of definition -- From Religions to the Religious -- A second look at sport as a religion -- Two ways of thinking.
Summary: "In Religion as a Chain of Memory, Hervieu-Leger undertakes a sociological redefinition and reexamination of religion. For religion to endure in the modern world, she finds, it must have deep roots in traditions and times in which it was not defined as irrelevant. This reasoning leads her to develop the concept of a "chain of memory"--In which individual believers become part of a community that links past, present, and future members. Thus, religion may be perceived as a shared understanding with a collective memory that enables it to draw from the well of its past for nourishment in the increasingly secular present."--Jacket
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Foreword / Grace Davie --
Doubt about the Subject Matter --
Sociology in Opposition to Religion? Preliminary Considerations --
From religious sociology to the sociology of religion --
Science opposed to religion --
Undermining the subject? --
The Fragmentation of Religion in Modern Societies --
The future of religion in the modern world: the classical sociological approaches --
Constructing a new perspective --
Defining religion: a new look at an old debate --
Religion and systems of meaning: an inclusive approach --
In contrast: a much more restrictive framework --
A false opposition --
One way out of the dilemma? --
The Elusive Sacred --
The sacred: an impossible concept --
The genealogy of the sacred: Isambert's contribution --
Emotional experience vis-a-vis religion --
Between the sacred and religion: the example of sport --
The sacred opposed to religion: the emotional culmination of secularization? --
As our Fathers Believed ... --
Religion as a Way of Believing --
Metaphorical religion, following Jean Seguy --
Towards an analysis of the transformation of belief in contemporary society --
Religion as a way of believing: the example of apocalyptic neo-rural communities --
Questions about Tradition --
Tradition opposed to modernity --
The creative power of tradition --
Religion as folklore --
The religious productions of modernity: is this concept meaningful? --
Back to the question of definition --
From Religions to the Religious --
A second look at sport as a religion --
Two ways of thinking.

"In Religion as a Chain of Memory, Hervieu-Leger undertakes a sociological redefinition and reexamination of religion. For religion to endure in the modern world, she finds, it must have deep roots in traditions and times in which it was not defined as irrelevant. This reasoning leads her to develop the concept of a "chain of memory"--In which individual believers become part of a community that links past, present, and future members. Thus, religion may be perceived as a shared understanding with a collective memory that enables it to draw from the well of its past for nourishment in the increasingly secular present."--Jacket

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