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To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society. This volume examines and engages with larger debates around religion and proposes a new approach that moves beyond the usual binaries to analyse its role in our societies at large. Formatting Religion delves into these complexities and demonstrates the topical need for better understanding of how religion, society, culture, and law interact and are mutually influenced in periods of transition. It examines how over the last two decades, people and institutions have been grappling with the role of religion in socio-cultural and political conflicts worldwide. Drawing on a host of disciplines - including sociology, philosophy, anthropology, politics, media, law, and theology - the essays in this book analyse how religion is formatted today, and how religion continuously formats society, from above and from below. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of religious studies, politics, media and culture studies, and sociology.

There are certain things that can be explained and certain things that cannot be explained. This book is about the latter. It is a book about death: how death interrupts and influences the reflection on the self. It is a book about God: a detailed and critical discussion on how Kierkegaard and Derrida apply the concept of God in their philosophical reflections. The most ground-breaking analysis concerns the famous passage on the self (A.A) in The Sickness unto Death, where the author combines logical, rhetorical and dialectical means to establish a new perspective on Kierkegaard's thinking in

Whereas Samuel Moyn has argued that human rights represent the last utopia, sociologist Hans Joas suggests that the modern history of human rights represents a critical alternative to the common theory of secularization understood as disenchantment (Weber). In Joas's reading, the political and social emphasis on human rights contributes to a sacralization of the person, not only understood as utopia, but also as societal ideal. Following Durkheim, Joas understands the sacred within the society as the continuous process of refashioning the ideal society within the real society. Although acknowledging Joas's critique of Weber, the author is more critical of his idealization of universal human rights and his affirmative genealogy of this ideal running back to the so-called Axial Age. Mjaaland argues that the normative and formative functions of human rights are better served by a suspicious genealogy of morals, taking also the problematic aspects of human rights policy into account, including its dependence on new forms of violence and cruelty. He concludes that a more modest and pragmatic understanding of human rights may therefore strengthen rather than weaken their authority and future influence.

Hat die Reformation einen neuen Zugang zur Philosophie eingeführt? Wie hat es die wichtigsten Denker in der Geschichte der modernen Philosophie beeinflusst? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes behandeln die Reformation als ein philosophisches Ereignis in der Frühen Neuzeit – und seinen überraschenden Einfluss auf Schlüsselfragen der Philosophie bis heute.InhaltsübersichtMarius Timmann Mjaaland: Introduction I. Re-Formation of Philosophy in Christianity and Islam Philipp Stoellger: Reformation as Reformatting Religion: The Shift of Perspective and Perception by Faith as Medium – Safet Bektovic: The Signs of a Hidden God: Dialectics of Veiling and Unveiling God in Islam – Marius Timmann Mjaaland: On the Path of Destruction: Luther, Kant and Heidegger on Divine Hiddenness and Transcendence II. Philosophy in the Wake of the Reformation Burkhard Nonnenmacher: Hegel's Philosophy of Religion and Luther – Stian Grøgård: A Note on Revelation and the Critique of Reason in Schelling's Late Philosophy – Jayne Svenungsson: Idealism Turned against Itself: From Hegel to Rosenzweig – Jörg Disse: Immediate Certainty and the Morally Good: Luther, Kierkegaard and Cognitive Psychology – Jan-Olav Henriksen: The Reformer in the Eyes of a Critic: Nietzsche's Perception and Presentation of Luther III. Reformation, Phenomenology and Metaphysics Rasmus Nagel: Continuing the Discontinuity: Luther, Badiou and the Reformation – Patrick Ebert: A Phenomenological Inquiry about Transcendence as Radical Alterity – Taylor Weaver: Revolution of Passivity: Agamben on Paul and Politics – Svein Aage Christoffersen: The Beginning: K. E. Løgstrup's Metaphysics of Existence in the 1930s – Dorthe Jørgensen: Protestantism and Its Aesthetic Discontents IV. Critique, Protest and Reform Ulf Zackariasson: Religious Agency as Vehicle and Source of Critique: A Pragmatist Contribution – Timo Koistinen: The Personal in Philosophy of Religion – Atle Ottesen Søvik: Are the Lutheran Confessions Inconsistent in What They Say on Free Will? – Sven Thore Kloster: Community of Conflict: Towards an Agonistic Theology with Chantal Mouffe and Kathryn Tanner – Øystein Brekke: Critique of Religion, Critique of Reason: Criticising Religion in the Classroom