9 Religion and Knowledge in the Post-Secular Academy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 The Post-Secular in Question 1
4. 2 What Is Religion? Categorical Reconfigurations in a Global Horizon 23
5. 3 Things in Their Entanglements 43
6. 4 Recovered Goods: Durkheimian Sociology as Virtue Ethics 77
7. 5 “Simple Ideas, Small Miracles”: The Obama Phenomenon 105
8. 6 Post-Secular Society: Consumerism and the Democratization of Religion 135
9. 7 Secular Liturgies and the Prospects for a “Post-Secular” Sociology of Religion 159
10. 8 Secular by Default? Religion and the University before the Post-Secular Age 185
11. 9 Religion and Knowledge in the Post-Secular Academy 215
12. 10 Jürgen Habermas and the Post-Secular Appropriation of Religion: A Sociological Critique 249
13. 11 Religion and Secularization in the United States and Western Europe 279
14. 12 Spiritual Politics and Post-Secular Authenticity: Foucault and Habermas on Post-Metaphysical Religion 307
15. 13 Time, World, and Secularism 335
16. About the Contributors 365
17. Index 369