New Heretics (eBook)

Skepticism, Secularism, and Progressive Christianity

Rebekka King (Autor)

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2023
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-9934-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Charts the development of progressive Christianity's engagement with modern science, historical criticism, and liberal humanismChristians who have doubts about the existence of God? Who do not believe in the divinity of Jesus? Who reject the accuracy of the Bible? The New Heretics explores the development of progressive Christianity, a movement of Christians who do not reject their identity as Christians, but who believe Christianity must be updated for today s times and take into consideration modern science, historical criticism, and liberal humanism.Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork in North America, Rebekka King focuses on testimonies of deconversion, collective reading practices, and the ways in which religious beliefs and practices are adapted to fit secular lives. King introduces the concept of lived secularity as a category with which to examine the ways in which religiosity often is entangled with and subsumed by secular identities over and against religious ones. This theoretical framework provides insight into the study of religious and cultural hybridity, new emerging groups such as the nones, atheism, religious apostasy, and multi-religious identities. The New Heretics pays close attention to the ways that progressive Christians understand themselves vis-a-vis a conservative or fundamentalist Christian other, providing context concerning the presumed divide between the religious right and the religious left. King shows that while it might be tempting to think of progressive Christians as atheists, there are religious and moral dimensions to their disbelief. For progressive Christians the act of questioning and rejecting God alongside other theological tenets is framed as a moral activity. Ultimately, the book showcases the importance of engaging with the ethics of belief in understanding contemporary Christianity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w illustration
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: agnosticism • anthropology of Christianity • Anthropology of Religion • apostacy • Atheism • Baby-Boomer • Bible study • Biblical Criticism • biblical reception • books about Christian history • books about Christian skeptics • books about religious skeptics • books on Anthropology of Religion • Choice • Christian skeptics • Collective reading • Congregational Dynamics • Contested Spaces • Conviction • Creationism • deconversion • development of progressive Christianity • disbelief • Discourse analysis • Eschatology • Ethics of belief • ethnography • Ethnography of Reading • Future • Gretta Vosper • heresy trial • Heretics • Heritage • history of Christian skeptics • Leadership • Lived Secularity • Mainline Christianity • membership • Middle-Class • Nones • North American religions • Oral History • outliers • Popular Theology • Progressive Christianity • Progressive Christians • Proximate Other • Purification • religious narratives • Religious Skepticism • Religious Skeptics • rewriting the Bible • Secularity and Secularism • simulacrum • Sincerity • skeptical faith • skepticism • Temporal Language • Textual Ideologies • United Church of Canada
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-9934-8 / 1479899348
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-9934-0 / 9781479899340