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. Eisensta dt. 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.