Why the Church? by Hans Joas
In this accessible and questioning new work, Hans Joas traverses theological, church-historical, sociological, and ethical territory in search of a viable conception of the church adequate to contemporary globalized societies. This book considers the relation of a community of faith to contemporary ideas about the optimization of life.-
Dialectic of Enlightenment
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Husserl's Phenomenology
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Saint Paul
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The Implicated Subject
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Religion and Cultural Memory
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Empathic Vision
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Formations of the Secular
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Plato and Europe
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Monolingualism of the Other
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On Escape
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Paper Machine
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The Practice of Conceptual History
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Of Hospitality
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The Mark of the Sacred
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In the Self's Place
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Mourning Sickness
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Multidirectional Memory
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The Present Alone Is Our Happiness, Second Edition
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Veils
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The Humanity of Others
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True Materialism
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Negotiations
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Little Did I Know
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A Revolutionary Faith
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Double Exposure
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The Practice of Cultural Analysis
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Mimesis and Theory
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The Force of Art
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Badiou by Badiou
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Sediments of Time
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A Theory of /Cloud/
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Present Pasts
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For What Tomorrow . . .
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Can One Live After Auschwitz?
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The Confession of Augustine
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The Absent God and Other Critical and Philosophical Writings
"The modes of thought deployed here give this book a complexity of insight without sacrifice of coherence in argumentJoas is one of the leading sociologists of religion today and this is a testimony to the comprehensiveness of his thought."
—William Schweiker, The University of Chicago
"With Why the Church?, Joas further burnishes his status as one of our finest sociologists of religion. The book richly weaves together many of the principal strands of his thought."
—William Barbieri, The Catholic University of America
"Joas offers one of the most significant social-theoretical reflections on the Christian 'church' since Ernst Troeltsch. Highly recommended for anybody interested in moral universalism, civic cosmopolitanism, or the fate of the religious and secular options in the modern world."
—Jose Casanova, Georgetown University
—William Schweiker, The University of Chicago
"With Why the Church?, Joas further burnishes his status as one of our finest sociologists of religion. The book richly weaves together many of the principal strands of his thought."
—William Barbieri, The Catholic University of America
"Joas offers one of the most significant social-theoretical reflections on the Christian 'church' since Ernst Troeltsch. Highly recommended for anybody interested in moral universalism, civic cosmopolitanism, or the fate of the religious and secular options in the modern world."
—Jose Casanova, Georgetown University
Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin. For more than twenty years he was a Visiting Professor of Sociology and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books including The Power of the Sacred (2021) and Faith as an Option: Possible Futures for Christianity (Stanford, 2014).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781503640795 |
| ISBN 10 | 1503640795 |
| Title | Why the Church? |
| Author | Hans Joas |
| Series | Cultural Memory In The Present |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Year published | 2024-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
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