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Sacred Modernities: Rethinking Modernity in a Post-Secular Age
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-01-04 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-09-02 |
| Announcement ID: |
163745 |
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The aim of this conference is to rethink the equation of modernity, secularity and disenchantment, and to explore the various conceptual and historiographical perspectives through which we might better understand the present. In both the West and the wider world, religion continues to make competing claims on the public sphere and public morals, despite once commonplace sociological predictions of its inevitable decline.
Developments like this have been accompanied by conceptual critique and innovation. Increasingly, traditional accounts of modernity are seen as Euro-centric and prescriptive, while there has been renewed interest in the question of political and civil religions and the more general relationship of the political and the theological. In sum, the aim of this conference is to take stock of these transformations in the context of what is often referred to as a ‘post-secular’ age comprised of ‘multiple modernities’. Its agenda is emphatically interdisciplinary and welcomes scholars from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, theology, and others.
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