EAN: 9783111120737

RELIGIOUS RESPONSES TO MODERNITY KARTONIERT (TB)

The dawn of the modern age posed challenges to all of the world's religions - and since then 
religions have countered with challenges to modernity. In Religious Responses to Modernity 
seven leading scholars from Germany and Israel explore specific instances of the face-off
between religious thought and modernity  in Christianity  Judaism and Islam. As co-editor
Christoph Markschies remarks in his Foreword  it may seem almost trivial to say that different
religions  and the various currents within them  have reacted in very different ways to the
multiple modernities described by S.N. Eisenstadt. However  things become more interesting when
the comparative perspective leads us to discover surprising similarities. Disparate encounters
are connected by their transnational or national perspectives  with the one side criticizing in
the interest of rationality as a model of authorization  and the other presenting revelation as
a critique of a depraved form of rationality. The thoughtful essays presented herein  by Simon
Gerber  Johannes Zachhuber  Jonathan Garb  Rivka Feldhay  Paul Mendes-Flohr  Israel Gershoni
and Christoph Schmidt  provide a counterweight to the popularity of some all-too-simplified
models of modernization.

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