03609nam 22005175 450 991081723040332120230823004259.00-8047-9278-X10.1515/9780804792783(CKB)3710000000167654(EBL)1731654(DE-B1597)563895(DE-B1597)9780804792783(MiAaPQ)EBC1731654(OCoLC)1178769714(EXLCZ)99371000000016765420200723h20202014 fg 0engur|nu---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFaith as an Option Possible Futures for Christianity /Hans JoasStanford, CA :Stanford University Press,[2020]©20141 online resource (205 p.)Cultural Memory in the PresentDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-8873-1 Front matter --Contents --Foreword --Introduction: Secularization and Intellectual Honesty --1. Does Modernization Lead to Secularization? --2. Does Secularization Lead to Moral Decline? --3. Waves of Secularization --4. Modernization as a Culturally Protestant Metanarrative --5. The Age of Contingency --6. Increased Options as a Danger? --7. Religious Diversity and the Pluralist Society --8. Religion and Violence --9. The Future of Christianity --10. Intellectual Challenges for Contemporary Christianity --Conclusion: Is Christianity Leaving Europe Behind? --Notes --Bibliography --Acknowledgments of Prior Publication --Index --Cultural Memory in the PresentMany people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society's spiritual and moral well-being. But does modernization lead to secularization? Does secularization lead to moral decay? Sociologist Hans Joas argues that these two supposed certainties have kept scholars from serious contemporary debate and that people must put these old arguments aside in order for debate to move forward. The emergence of a "secular option" does not mean that religion must decline, but that even believers must now define their faith as one option among many. In this book, Joas spells out some of the consequences of the abandonment of conventional assumptions for contemporary religion and develops an alternative to the cliché of an inevitable conflict between Christianity and modernity. Arguing that secularization comes in waves and stressing the increasing contingency of our worlds, he calls upon faith to articulate contemporary experiences. Churches and religious communities must take into account religious diversity, but the modern world is not a threat to Christianity or to faith in general. On the contrary, Joas says, modernity and faith can be mutually enriching.Cultural Memory in the PresentChurch history -- 21st centuryFaithSecularismChurch history -- 21st century.Faith.Secularism.270.8/3Joas Hansauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut123079DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910817230403321Faith as an Option3959394UNINA