Phenomenology and the Post-Secular Turn

Name: Phenomenology and the Post-Secular Turn
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Phenomenology and the Post-Secular TurnContemporary Debates on the 'Return of Religion'\nAuthor(s): Michael Staudigl, Jason W. Alvis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138543164, 978-1138543164\nSynopsis\nAre we living in a post-secular age, and can phenomenology help us better understand the discontents of secularism? From Habermas claim that the secular hypothesis has failed for democratic reasons to the fact that religion, far from its predicted dwindling, is as strong as ever (or even stronger than before), some have concluded that secularism as we know it is over. Others have questioned whether we have ever truly been secular, if the concept applies only to European societies, or whether the very notion of religiosity is merely a weapon of pacification in the hands of Western universalism. The post-secular notion thus lingers between sociological fact and philosophical theory, and it is the latter that we need.