LEADER 03609nam 22005175 450 001 9910817230403321 005 20230823004259.0 010 $a0-8047-9278-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804792783 035 $a(CKB)3710000000167654 035 $a(EBL)1731654 035 $a(DE-B1597)563895 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804792783 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1731654 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769714 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000167654 100 $a20200723h20202014 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFaith as an Option $ePossible Futures for Christianity /$fHans Joas 210 1$aStanford, CA :$cStanford University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (205 p.) 225 0 $aCultural Memory in the Present 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-8873-1 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tIntroduction: Secularization and Intellectual Honesty --$t1. Does Modernization Lead to Secularization? --$t2. Does Secularization Lead to Moral Decline? --$t3. Waves of Secularization --$t4. Modernization as a Culturally Protestant Metanarrative --$t5. The Age of Contingency --$t6. Increased Options as a Danger? --$t7. Religious Diversity and the Pluralist Society --$t8. Religion and Violence --$t9. The Future of Christianity --$t10. Intellectual Challenges for Contemporary Christianity --$tConclusion: Is Christianity Leaving Europe Behind? --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments of Prior Publication --$tIndex --$tCultural Memory in the Present 330 $aMany people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society's spiritual and moral well-being. But does modernization lead to secularization? Does secularization lead to moral decay? Sociologist Hans Joas argues that these two supposed certainties have kept scholars from serious contemporary debate and that people must put these old arguments aside in order for debate to move forward. The emergence of a "secular option" does not mean that religion must decline, but that even believers must now define their faith as one option among many. In this book, Joas spells out some of the consequences of the abandonment of conventional assumptions for contemporary religion and develops an alternative to the cliché of an inevitable conflict between Christianity and modernity. Arguing that secularization comes in waves and stressing the increasing contingency of our worlds, he calls upon faith to articulate contemporary experiences. Churches and religious communities must take into account religious diversity, but the modern world is not a threat to Christianity or to faith in general. On the contrary, Joas says, modernity and faith can be mutually enriching. 410 0$aCultural Memory in the Present 606 $aChurch history -- 21st century 606 $aFaith 606 $aSecularism 615 4$aChurch history -- 21st century. 615 4$aFaith. 615 4$aSecularism. 676 $a270.8/3 700 $aJoas$b Hans$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0123079 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817230403321 996 $aFaith as an Option$93959394 997 $aUNINA