Bibliography 2: #BIB36450

Key	BIB36450
Reference type	Book
Title	Seven Ways of Looking at Religion : The Dominant Narratives
Author	Schewel, Benjamin
Year	2017
Date	2017
Publisher	Yale University Press
Place published	New Haven, CT ; London
Issue	10.
ISBN	9780300218473 (hardcover alk. paper)
Abstract	Western intellectuals have long theorized that religion would undergo a process of marginalization and decline as the forces of modernity advanced. Yet recent events have disrupted this seductively straightforward story. As a result, while it is clear that religion has somehow evolved from its tribal beginnings up through modernity and into the current global age, there is no consensus about what kind of narrative of religious change we should alternatively tell. Seeking clarity, Benjamin Schewel organizes and evaluates the prevalent narratives of religious history that scholars have deployed over the past century and are advancing today. He argues that contemporary scholarly discourse on religion can be categorized according to seven central narratives: subtraction, renewal, transsecular, postnaturalist, construct, perennial, and developmental. Examining the basic logic, insights, and limitations of each of these narratives, Schewel ranges from Martin Heidegger to Muhammad Iqbal, from Daniel Dennett to Charles Taylor, to offer an incisive, broad, and original perspective on religion in the modern world.
Notes	Bahá'í Faith: pp. 23, 128, 157, 195nn21-22. Also the Acknowledgements mention several Bahá'ís. LCCN 2016963571.
Language	English
Keywords	RELIGION; NARRATIVE; METHODOLOGY; THEORY
Number of pages	ix, 238
Accession number	19422945

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