Narrowing the Options: Power and Glory in the Late Modern Religious Imagination

Under the conditions of late modernity, when a secular worldview has diminished the plausibility of affirmations of a transcendent truth or reality governing human affairs, the world’s major religious traditions have spawned religious subcultures driven by narrowly political theologies. The result h...

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Published in:The review of faith & international affairs
Main Author: Appleby, R. Scott 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
In: The review of faith & international affairs
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
NCD Political ethics
Further subjects:B Religious Nationalism
B Fundamentalism
B Late Modernity
B Immanence
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Summary:Under the conditions of late modernity, when a secular worldview has diminished the plausibility of affirmations of a transcendent truth or reality governing human affairs, the world’s major religious traditions have spawned religious subcultures driven by narrowly political theologies. The result has been a constriction of conceptions of divine glory and majesty; these aggressive fundamentalist and religious-nationalist movements idolize the near-absolute power of the secular modern state. This elimination of options within the religious community, including the option of separatism or withdrawal from worldly political calculations, robs the religious imagination of a vital pluralism and reduces “power” to ideology.
ISSN:1931-7743
Contains:Enthalten in: The review of faith & international affairs
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2020.1795383