Davis, Charles, 1923-
Religion and the making of society : essays in social theology / Charles Davis. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994. - xiv, 208 p. ; 23 cm. - Cambridge studies in ideology and religion . - Cambridge studies in ideology and religion. .
General editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : from the secular to the supernatural -- -- Part I. Society, religion and human agency -- 1. Society and the critique of modernity -- 2. The present social function of religion -- 3. From inwardness to social action : the transformation of the political -- 4. The Christian question to radicalism -- -- Part II. Praxis, narrative and religious language -- 5. Theology and praxis -- 6. Revelation, historical continuity and the rationality of tradition -- 7. The political use and misuse of religious language -- -- Part III. From the modern subject to the post-modern self -- 8. Our new religious identity -- 9. Post-modernity and the formation of the self -- -- Part IV. The option for the future -- 10. What remains of socialism as a moral and religious ideal -- 11. Communicative rationality and the grounding of religious hope -- -- Index.
0521443105 0521447895 (pbk.)
Christian sociology.
Religion and sociology
Religion and politics
Ideology--Religious aspects
Religion and the making of society : essays in social theology / Charles Davis. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994. - xiv, 208 p. ; 23 cm. - Cambridge studies in ideology and religion . - Cambridge studies in ideology and religion. .
General editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : from the secular to the supernatural -- -- Part I. Society, religion and human agency -- 1. Society and the critique of modernity -- 2. The present social function of religion -- 3. From inwardness to social action : the transformation of the political -- 4. The Christian question to radicalism -- -- Part II. Praxis, narrative and religious language -- 5. Theology and praxis -- 6. Revelation, historical continuity and the rationality of tradition -- 7. The political use and misuse of religious language -- -- Part III. From the modern subject to the post-modern self -- 8. Our new religious identity -- 9. Post-modernity and the formation of the self -- -- Part IV. The option for the future -- 10. What remains of socialism as a moral and religious ideal -- 11. Communicative rationality and the grounding of religious hope -- -- Index.
0521443105 0521447895 (pbk.)
Christian sociology.
Religion and sociology
Religion and politics
Ideology--Religious aspects