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Enchantment of Sociology: A Study of Theology and Culture

By Kieran Flanagan

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1996
ISBN
0333651677, 9780333651674
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16806428 bytes)
Pages
312\308
Time added
2015-08-03 18:24:22

Description

This unusual sociological study examines the issue of enchantment in terms of habitus and charisma. It seeks to overcome a fated notion of disenchantment in a culture of postmodernity. Crossing between theological and sociological self-understandings of culture, the study criticizes conventions of secularisation so as to defend the viability of theological forms of enchantment. Through a reading of Bourdieu, Simmel and the Swiss theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar, the book attempts to supply theology with its own sociological self-understanding of religious belief and culture, but also to give to sociology a basis of theological reflexivity.

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