Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 17
PART 1 Spirits of capitalism and the commodification of the soul......Page 29
CHAPTER 1 The closed circle: Marxism, Christianity and the ‘End of History’......Page 31
CHAPTER 2 Religion and the ‘enterprise culture’: the British experience from Thatcher to Blair (1979–2000)......Page 52
CHAPTER 3 Power and empowerment: New Age managers and the dialectics of modernity/postmodernity......Page 78
CHAPTER 4 The end of the university and the last academic?......Page 102
PART 2 Theology and power in the matrix of modernity/postmodernity......Page 127
INTRODUCTION......Page 129
THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE CONTEMPORARY ANGLICAN PROBLEM OF SELF-DEFINITION......Page 131
LORDSHIP AND BONDAGE: HEGEL’S PREFIGUREMENT OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL THEORY......Page 134
INTEGRITY: THE QUEST FOR METHOD......Page 138
IDENTITY: THE ASSERTION OF ESSENCE......Page 150
POWER: THE TRANSVALUATION OF AUTHORITY......Page 157
CONCLUSION......Page 172
CHAPTER 6 Ruling the Body: the care of souls in a managerial church......Page 177
FROM CRISIS OF AUTHORITY TO LEGITIMATION OF POWER: MANAGERIALISM AS ECCLESIAL RESTORATION......Page 181
THE MANAGER’S ‘RIGHT TO MANAGE’: RESTRUCTURING AN EXECUTIVE CHURCH......Page 184
CULTURES OF PERFORMATIVITY AND APPRAISAL: EPISCOPE AND THE ECCLESIAL PANOPTICON......Page 189
MANAGERIAL MODERNITY AND THE CLOSURE OF TRANSCENDENCE......Page 192
THE CARE OF ‘SOUL( S)’ IN THE SPIRITUAL MARKET-PLACE......Page 195
CONCLUSION: PRIMAL RELIGION AND THE ECOLOGIES OF THE SPIRIT......Page 203
INTRODUCTION......Page 206
THEOLOGIANS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: SURVEY AND TYPOLOGY......Page 208
Theology repels the social sciences: fundamentalism......Page 211
Ernst Troeltsch: sociology overcomes theology......Page 212
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: theology recruits sociology......Page 214
Edward Farley: theology and social science mutually merged?......Page 217
Postmodern quasi-fundamentalism (John Milbank)......Page 219
THEOLOGY’S USE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE: SOME OBSERVATIONS......Page 223
THEOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: A TENTATIVE AGENDA......Page 226
PART 3 Religion and social science: identity, globalisation and the transmutation of the religious field......Page 231
INTRODUCTION: ‘DIVINITY’ AND ITS DISCONTENTS......Page 233
THE ‘SOULS OF EUROPE’ AND THE POSTMODERN PROBLEMATIC......Page 235
‘EUROPE’ AS PERIODISATION AND TYPOLOGY......Page 239
PRE-MODERNITY IDENTITY: CATHOLIC TRADITION......Page 242
IDENTITY AS ACCOMMODATION: LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM......Page 247
PROMETHEAN MODERNITY: THE NEGATION OF ‘EUROPE’......Page 250
‘EUROPE’ AND THE OTHER......Page 253
THE ‘NEW EUROPE’ AND A ‘GREATER EUROPE’......Page 257
‘DIVINITY’ AND ITS TASKS......Page 260
INTRODUCTION......Page 264
THE 1993 PARLIAMENT: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE......Page 266
INTEGRATION STRATEGY: GLOBAL VALUES AND PARTICULAR RELIGION......Page 268
Religion and globalisation theory......Page 273
Religion, ‘meta-theory’ and the ‘condition of postmodernity’......Page 278
THE CHICAGO PARLIAMENT AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION......Page 280
INTRODUCTION......Page 285
FINDING TIMES: TRANSMUTATIONS OF RELIGION, TIME AND IDENTITY......Page 286
THEOLOGY, MODERNITY AND THE TEMPORAL MATRIX......Page 291
MODERNISM AS POSTMODERNITY: THE TIME/SPACE MATRIX......Page 292
VIRTUALITIES, CYBORGS AND REDEMPTIONS OF THE ‘FLESH’......Page 298
GENDERED ULTIMACIES AND THE RELIGIOUS FIELD: THE CHTHONIC IMPERATIVE......Page 304
Conclusion......Page 309
CHAPTER 11 Identity as vocation: the prospect for religion......Page 311
Bibliography......Page 322
Index......Page 342