Religious Experience, Secular Reason and Politics Around 1945: Sources for Rethinking Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Societies (Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society: Supplementa, 3)

Hardcover, xi + 209 pages, NOT ex-library. Book looks unread, clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Minor handling wear only. Issued without a dust jacket. -- The emergence and downfall of fascism and the Nazi regime in the mid-twentieth century mark the definitive decline of Europe's geopolitical hegemony. The end of the Second World War is the beginning of both decolonization processes and the founding of the United Nations as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this context, we find a variety of philosophical interpretations on religious traditions, secular conceptualizations of reason and political theories. In and outside of Europe, philosophical and spiritual movements develop different political orientations, whereas fruitful dialogues between religious and secular philosophical positions emerge. In this volume, such positions and interactions are explored in an exemplary way. -- The emergence and downfall of fascism and the Nazi regime in the mid-twentieth century mark the definitive decline of Europe's geopolitical hegemony. The end of the Second World War is the beginning of both decolonization processes and the founding of the United Nations as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this context, we find a variety of philosophical interpretations on religious traditions, secular conceptualizations of reason and political theories. In and outside of Europe, philosophical and spiritual movements develop different political orientations, whereas fruitful dialogues between religious and secular philosophical positions emerge. In this volume, such positions and interactions are explored in an exemplary way. -- Contents: Introduction; 1 Adorno's Philosophy, Religion, and the Second World War / Gerrit Steunebrink; 2 Bracketing the Future, or Simone Weil's Mystical Politics / Sandra Lehmann; 3 YHWH in the Drawer: Literary Tsimtsum in Hannah Arendt's Post-War Writings / Rafael Zawisza; 4 Disintegrated World: Paul Tillich's Interpretation of Modernity in the 1940s / Christian Danz; 5 Gerardus van der Leeuw: Phenomenology as Mystical Participation and Critique of Modernity / Herman Westerink; 6 Karl Jaspers: Philosophical Faith and the Vision of an Intercultural Democratic Global Order / Hans Schelkshorn; 7 Overcoming Nishitani: Nihilism and Nationalism in Keiji Nishitani's Political Philosophy of Religion / Fabian Volker; 8 Gandhi's Dual Concept of Religion and its Relation to Reason and Politics / Wolfgang Palaver; 9 Rebel Nun with a Cause: The Political Sophiology of St Mat' Mariia (Skobtsova) / Evert van der Zweerde; List of Contributors.…