03474nam 22006611 450 991082688060332120230126210827.00-231-53549-X10.7312/robe14752(CKB)2670000000410742(EBL)1321643(OCoLC)858358282(SSID)ssj0000983096(PQKBManifestationID)11632768(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983096(PQKBWorkID)10987265(PQKB)10070276(StDuBDS)EDZ0000605321(MiAaPQ)EBC1321643(DE-B1597)459266(OCoLC)979575073(DE-B1597)9780231535496(Au-PeEL)EBL1321643(CaPaEBR)ebr10765671(CaONFJC)MIL562294(EXLCZ)99267000000041074220121126h20132013 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrEncountering religion responsibility and criticism after secularism /Tyler RobertsNew York :Columbia University Press,[2013]©2013©20131 online resource (317 p.)Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and CultureInsurrectionsDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-14752-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Religion and incongruity -- Placing religion -- Encountering the human -- Encountering theology -- Religion and responsibility -- On psychotheology -- Criticism as conduct of gratitude.Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of religion" and an ideological and authoritarian "religion," he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach the field as a site of "encounter" and "response," illuminating the agency, creativity, and critical awareness of religious actors. To respond to religion is to ask what religious behaviors and representations mean to us in our individual worlds, and scholars must confront questions of possibility and becoming that arise from testing their beliefs, imperatives, and practices. Roberts refers to the work of Hent de Vries, Eric Santner, and Stanley Cavell, each of whom exemplifies encounter and response in their writings as they traverse philosophy and religion to expose secular thinking to religious thought and practice. This approach highlights the resources religious discourse can offer to a fundamental reorientation of critical thought. In humanistic criticism after secularism, the lines separating the creative, the pious, and the critical themselves become the subject of question and experimentation.Insurrections.ReligionPhilosophySocial sciencesReligionPhilosophy.Social sciences.200.7Roberts Tyler T.1960-1093818MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826880603321Encountering religion4077649UNINA