Mourning Religion

Book Overview

Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theorists such as Freud, Durkheim, Weber, and Marx built their intellectual edifices on what they thought would be the remains or ruins of religion in the wake of modernization. But today the decline and disappearance of religion can no longer be simply assumed. In the face of contemporary entanglements of religion and violence, the establishment of meaning and morality remains troubling; the experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813927463
• ISBN13: 9780813927466
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary