2000 years and beyond : faith, identity, and the 'common era' / / edited by Paul Gifford ... [et al.]
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| Titolo: |
2000 years and beyond : faith, identity, and the 'common era' / / edited by Paul Gifford ... [et al.]
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 200/.9/0511 |
| Soggetto topico: | Christianity |
| Religion | |
| Christianity - Forecasting | |
| Humanism | |
| Capitalism - Religious aspects - Christianity | |
| Postmodernism - Religious aspects - Christianity | |
| Altri autori: |
GiffordPaul <1944->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-219) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; 1 2000 years: looking backwards and forwards; 2 Progress and abyss; 3 Enlightenment humanism as a relic of Christian monotheism; 4 Historiography and the representation of the past; 5 The future of human nature; 6 The mimetic theory of religion: an outline; 7 Second comings: neo-Protestant ethics and millennial capitalism in Africa, and elsewhere; 8 Can a premodern bible address a postmodern world?; 9 Conclusion: dialogue on the 'Common Era'; Notes; Bibliography and further reading; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 2000 Years and Beyond brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time - specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory. In a horizon-scanning work, they look backwards and forwards to explore what links us to the matrix of the Judaeo-Christian tradition from which Western cultural identity has evolved.Their plural reflections raise searching questions about how we move from past to future - and about who 'we' are. What do the catastrophes of the twentieth century signify for hopes of progress? Can post - Enlightenment humanism and its notion of |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Two thousand years and beyond |
| Titolo autorizzato: | 2000 years and beyond |
| ISBN: | 1-134-47078-9 |
| 1-134-47079-7 | |
| 1-280-05676-2 | |
| 0-203-39848-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808474603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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