A God of One's Own: Religion's Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence - Ulrich Beck
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`A volume with more than enough ideas to inspire the study of religion for the foreseeable future. The author's acclaimed individualization thesis is put to work in the context of an emerging debate concerning the cultivation of humanity: one between believers in various forms of religious universals, and a form of cosmopolitanism which acknowledges that variety is the spice of life. Whatever the "God of one's own" owes to universalism, Beck's controversial argument is that the most effective God of one's own lies with non-essentialist, relatively modest and sceptical, cosmopolitan realism.' Paul Heelas, Lancaster University `This new book from one of Europe's leading thinkers is a welcome, thoughtful engagement with the prominence of religion in the contemporary world. Writing as an unabashed sociological secularist, but one who refuses the simplifications of typical ideas of secularization, Beck explores religion's contradictory potentials, patterns of individuation and group identity, and the relation of r...
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231 p. Paperback (In good condition.) Cambridge/Malden, Polity Press 2010 [Auteur: Beck, Ulrich] [Jaar: 2010] [Titel: A God of One's Own. Religion's Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence]
