The New Visibility of Religion Studies in Religion and Cultural Hermeneutics

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I Secularization 1 Revising Secularization Theory James Sweeney, C. P. 2 Five Ways of Relating Religion and Politics or Living in Two Worlds: Believer and Citizen Patrick Riordan, S.}. 3 Secularism, Faith and Freedom Rowan Williams Part II Violence 4 The Bloody Skin of the Victim Rene Girard 5 The Ambiguous Cachet of Victimhood: On Violence and Monotheism Wolfgang Palaver 6 Monotheism and Violence Terry Eagleton Part III Aesthetics 7 The Art of Disappearing: Religion and Aestheticization Yves de Maeseneer 8 The Re-enchantment of the World and the End of Modern Art Peter Weibel 9 `The End is Nigh`: A Reflection on the Relationship between Media and Religion Alexander Darius Ornella Part IV Theology 10 Radical Orthodoxy Ten Years On: The Return of Metaphysics John Milbank and Graham Ward 11 Politics and the New Visibility of Theology Peter Manley Scott 12 Religion after Detraditionalization: Christian Faith in a Postsecular Europe Lieven Boeve