1. A Secular Age? The ‘Modern World’ and the Beginnings of the Sociology of Religion
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Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire: Transnational Approaches. Hrsg. / Rebekka Habermas. Berghahn Books Inc., 2019. S. 31-55 (New German Historical Perspectives; Band 10).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - 1. A Secular Age? The ‘Modern World’ and the Beginnings of the Sociology of Religion
AU - Knöbl, Wolfgang
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - A couple of years ago, Guy G. Stroumsa convincingly argued that the emergence of religious studies in seventeenth-century Europe could legitimately be interpreted as an intellectual revolution: the ‘discovery’ of the New World, the Renaissance with its interest in ancient Greece and Rome, and the so-called wars of religion, had created decisive structural conditions for new ways of thinking about religion.¹ From late antiquity up until that time, religion was usually interpreted as an internalized belief system, as something belonging to the inner life of the believer: ‘True religion … was … orthodox Christianity, while all other forms of religion...
AB - A couple of years ago, Guy G. Stroumsa convincingly argued that the emergence of religious studies in seventeenth-century Europe could legitimately be interpreted as an intellectual revolution: the ‘discovery’ of the New World, the Renaissance with its interest in ancient Greece and Rome, and the so-called wars of religion, had created decisive structural conditions for new ways of thinking about religion.¹ From late antiquity up until that time, religion was usually interpreted as an internalized belief system, as something belonging to the inner life of the believer: ‘True religion … was … orthodox Christianity, while all other forms of religion...
KW - Media and communication studies
U2 - 10.1515/9781789201529-002
DO - 10.1515/9781789201529-002
M3 - Chapter
T3 - New German Historical Perspectives
SP - 31
EP - 55
BT - Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
A2 - Habermas, Rebekka
PB - Berghahn Books Inc.
ER -