The Religion of the Future. By Roberto Mangabeira Unger
© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.comRoberto Mangabeira Unger is known primarily as a legal and political philosopher, and as an active policy-maker and...
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| Language: | English |
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[2015]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 83, Issue: 2, Pages: 554-568 |
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| Summary: | © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.comRoberto Mangabeira Unger is known primarily as a legal and political philosopher, and as an active policy-maker and politician in his homeland, Brazil. The Religion of the Future is an extended manifesto for Unger's version of prophetic pragmatism (the stance most strikingly posed by Cornel West). Unger urges a new, revolutionary transformation of human life supported by an (a)theology of Godless divinization. The heralded revolution deepens and extends transformations of the past two thousand five hundred years, although Unger maintains that prevailing theses about the nature and significance of the so-called Axial Age mistake the matter. So, this is a “big” book, with ambitions akin to works like Charles Taylor's A Secular Age (Harvard University Press, 2007), Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution (Belknap Press,... |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv019 |