Religious Experience, Secular Reason and Politics Around 1945 Sources for Rethinking Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Societies

This volume examines the interplay between religious experience, secular reason, and politics around the pivotal year of 1945. It delves into philosophical discourses of the time, highlighting the impact of totalitarian regimes and the rise of human rights following the establishment of the United N...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schelkshorn, Hans (-)
Otros Autores: Westerink, Herman
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL 2024.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society - Supplementa Series
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Adorno’s Philosophy, Religion, and the Second World War
  • 2. Bracketing the Future, or Simone Weil’s Mystical Politics
  • 3. YHWH in the Drawer. Literary Tsimtsum in Hannah Arendt’s Post-War Writings
  • 4. Disintegrated World: Paul Tillich’s Interpretation of Modernity in the 1940s
  • 5. Gerardus van der Leeuw: Phenomenology as Mystical Participation and Critique of Modernity
  • 6. Karl Jaspers: Philosophical Faith and the Vision of an Intercultural Democratic Global Order
  • 7. Overcoming Nishitani: Nihilism and Nationalism in Keiji Nishitani’s Political Philosophy of Religion
  • 8. Gandhi’s Dual Concept of Religion and its Relation to Reason and Politics
  • 9. Rebel Nun with a Cause: The Political Sophiology of St Mat’ Mariia (Skobtsova)
  • List of Contributors