Richard H. Roberts

Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences

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Produktbeschreibung

Richard Roberts explores the religious consequences of the imposition of managerial modernity upon successive sectors of society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780521795081
• ISBN-10: 0521795087
• Artikelnr.: 26968584

Autorenporträt

Richard Roberts is Professor of Religious Studies at Lancaster University. He has not shrunk from controversy and is known among senior British academic figures for his pursuit of a consistently critical line against the managerialisation and bureaucratisation of both universities and churches. His publications include Hope and its Hieroglyph: A Critical Decipherment of Ernst Bloch's 'Principle of Hope' (1990), A Theology on its Way: Essays on Karl Barth (1992), The Recovery of Rhetoric: Persuasive Discourse and Disciplinarity in the Human Sciences (co-edited with J. M. M. Good, 1993), Religion and the Transformations of Capitalism: Comparative Approaches (editor, 1995), Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World (co-edited with Jo Pearson and Geoffrey Samuel, 1998), and Time and Value (co-edited with Scott Lash and Andrew Quick, 1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Spirits of Capitalism and the Commodification of the
Soul: 1. The closed circle: Marxism, Christianity and the 'end of history';
2. Religion and the 'enterprise culture': the British experience from
Thatcher to Blair (1979-99); 3. Power and empowerment: New Age managers and
the dialects of modernity/postmodernity; 4. The end of the university and
the last academic?; Part II. Theology and Power in the Matrix of
Modernity/Postmodernity: 5. Lord, bondsman, and churchman: integrity,
identity and power in Anglicanism; 6. Ruling the body: the care of souls in
a managerial church; 7. Theology and the social sciences; Part III.
Religion and Social Science: Identity, Globalisation and the Transmutations
of the Religious Field: 8. The souls of Europe: identity, religion and
theology; 9. Globalized religion: the Parliament of the World's Religions
(Chicago 1993) in theoretical perspective; 10. Time, virtuality and the
goddess: transmutations of the religious field; Conclusion: 11. Identity as
vocation: the prospect for religion.