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ISBN 10: 0521791510 

ISBN 13: 9780521791519

Author: Richard H. Roberts

Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences explores the religious consequences of the so-called ‘end of history’ and ‘triumph of capitalism’ as they have impinged upon key institutions of social reproduction in recent times. The book explores the imposition of managerial modernity upon successive sectors of society and shows why many people today feel themselves to be oppressed by systems of management that seem to leave them no option but to conform. This culture has spread through education, health and social services and has been welcomed by the churches. Richard Roberts seeks to challenge and outflank such seamless, oppressive modernity, through reconfiguration of the religious and spiritual field. This volume will be of use to a range of students in humanities and social sciences (particularly theology and the sociology of religion) and should become standard reading for those concerned with the practical application of contemporary theology in a postmodern world.

Table of contents:

PART 1 Spirits of capitalism and the commodification of the soul
CHAPTER 1 The closed circle: Marxism, Christianity and the ‘End of History’
CHAPTER 2 Religion and the ‘enterprise culture’: the British experience from Thatcher to Blair
CHAPTER 3 Power and empowerment: New Age managers and the dialectics of modernity/postmodernity
CHAPTER 4 The end of the university and the last academic?

PART 2 Theology and power in the matrix of modernity/postmodernity
CHAPTER 5 Lord, bondsman and churchman: integrity, identity and power in Anglicanism
INTRODUCTION
THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE CONTEMPORARY ANGLICAN PROBLEM OF SELF-DEFINITION
LORDSHIP AND BONDAGE: HEGEL’S PREFIGUREMENT OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL THEORY
INTEGRITY: THE QUEST FOR METHOD
IDENTITY: THE ASSERTION OF ESSENCE
POWER: THE TRANSVALUATION OF AUTHORITY
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 6 Ruling the Body: the care of souls in a managerial church
FROM CRISIS OF AUTHORITY TO LEGITIMATION OF POWER: MANAGERIALISM AS ECCLESIAL RESTORATION
THE MANAGER’S ‘RIGHT TO MANAGE’: RESTRUCTURING AN EXECUTIVE CHURCH
CULTURES OF PERFORMATIVITY AND APPRAISAL: EPISCOPE AND THE ECCLESIAL PANOPTICON
MANAGERIAL MODERNITY AND THE CLOSURE OF TRANSCENDENCE
THE CARE OF ‘SOUL(S)’ IN THE SPIRITUAL MARKET-PLACE
CONCLUSION: PRIMAL RELIGION AND THE ECOLOGIES OF THE SPIRIT
CHAPTER 7 Theology and the social sciences
INTRODUCTION
THEOLOGIANS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: SURVEY AND TYPOLOGY
Theology repels the social sciences: fundamentalism
Ernst Troeltsch: sociology overcomes theology
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: theology recruits sociology
Edward Farley: theology and social science mutually merged?
Postmodern quasi-fundamentalism (John Milbank)
THEOLOGY’S USE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE: SOME OBSERVATIONS
THEOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: A TENTATIVE AGENDA

PART 3 Religion and social science: identity, globalisation and the transmutation of the religious field
CHAPTER 8 The souls of Europe: identity, religion and theology
INTRODUCTION: ‘DIVINITY’ AND ITS DISCONTENTS
THE ‘SOULS OF EUROPE’ AND THE POSTMODERN PROBLEMATIC
‘EUROPE’ AS PERIODISATION AND TYPOLOGY
PRE-MODERNITY IDENTITY: CATHOLIC TRADITION
IDENTITY AS ACCOMMODATION: LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM
PROMETHEAN MODERNITY: THE NEGATION OF ‘EUROPE’
‘EUROPE’ AND THE OTHER
THE ‘NEW EUROPE’ AND A ‘GREATER EUROPE’
‘DIVINITY’ AND ITS TASKS
CHAPTER 9 Globalised religion? The Parliament of the World’s Religions (Chicago, 1993) in theoretical context
INTRODUCTION
THE 1993 PARLIAMENT: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE
INTEGRATION STRATEGY: GLOBAL VALUES AND PARTICULAR RELIGION
THEORETICAL CONTEXTUALISATION: EMANCIPATORY GLOBAL RELIGION?
Religion and globalisation theory
Religion, ‘meta-theory’ and the ‘condition of postmodernity’
RELIGION AS RESOURCE: A ‘CULTURAL CAPITAL’ APPROACH
THE CHICAGO PARLIAMENT AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION
CHAPTER 10 Time, virtuality and the Goddess: transmutations of the religious field
INTRODUCTION
FINDING TIMES: TRANSMUTATIONS OF RELIGION, TIME AND IDENTITY
THEOLOGY, MODERNITY AND THE TEMPORAL MATRIX
MODERNISM AS POSTMODERNITY: THE TIME/SPACE MATRIX
VIRTUALITIES, CYBORGS AND REDEMPTIONS OF THE ‘FLESH’
GENDERED ULTIMACIES AND THE RELIGIOUS FIELD: THE CHTHONIC IMPERATIVE
Conclusion
CHAPTER 11 Identity as vocation: the prospect for religion

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