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Christianity, Modernity and Culture
John Stenhouse
G. A. Wood
其他書名
New Perspectives on New Zealand History
出版
ATF Press
, 2005
主題
History / Australia & New Zealand
Political Science / World / Australian & Oceanian
Religion / General
Religion / Christian Living / General
Religion / History
Religion / Christianity / General
Religion / Theology
ISBN
1920691332
9781920691332
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=h4NSPO-RM9sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
For much of the twentieth century, New Zealand historians, like most Western scholars, largely took it for granted that as modernity waxed religion would wane. Secularization--the fading into insignificance of religion--would distinguish the modern era from previous ages. Until the 1980s, only a handful of scholars around the world raised serious empirical and theoretical questions about a Grand Theory that had become central to the self-understanding of the social sciences and of the modern world. Heated debates since then, and the unmistakable resurgence of world religions, have raised fundamental questions about the empirical and theoretical adequacy of secularization theory, and especially about how far it applies outside Europe. This volume revisits New Zealand history when secularization is no longer taken for granted as the Only Big Story that illuminates the country's social and cultural history. Contributors explore how New Zealanders' diverse religious and spiritual traditions have shaped practical, everyday concerns in politics, racial and ethnic relations, science, the environment, family life, gender relations, and other domains.