Religious spaces as continually evolving modernities: Forms of encounter with modernity in Christian Orthodoxy and Islam
The present study deals with the encounter with modernity in two neighbouring religious spaces: Christian Orthodoxy and Islam. Relying on Eisenstadt’s theory about multiple modernities and on its further developments by Thomas Mergel and Kristina Stoeckl, Islamic and Christian-Orthodox dy...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2021
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HTS teologiese studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 77, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-6 |
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Kristina Stoeckl
B Thomas Bauer B Olivier Roy B Islam B religion and modernity B Religion and culture B Fundamentalism B Multiple Modernities B Orthodoxy B second modernity |
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Summary: | The present study deals with the encounter with modernity in two neighbouring religious spaces: Christian Orthodoxy and Islam. Relying on Eisenstadt’s theory about multiple modernities and on its further developments by Thomas Mergel and Kristina Stoeckl, Islamic and Christian-Orthodox dynamics in relation to the challenges of modernity are examined under two aspects: first, the decoupling between religion and culture as elaborated by Olivier Roy, and second, the development of modernist and fundamentalist currents as phenomena of modernity. The study contributes to the sketching of the profile of Islamic and the Christian-Orthodox modernities, pointing both to some of the commonalities and the differences, and inquiring the nature of their distinctiveness. Further on, it contributes to the theoretic discussion on modernity and its various, contextually shaped forms, shedding new light on the relation between the trigger of social changes and their processual character. |
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ISSN: | 2072-8050 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: HTS teologiese studies
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