Rövid leírás:

Secular Religions: The Key Concepts provides a concise guide to those ideologies, worldviews, and social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that are most often described as the modern counterparts of traditional religions.

Hosszú leírás:

Secular Religions: The Key Concepts provides a concise guide to those ideologies, worldviews, and social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that are most often described as the modern counterparts of traditional religions.

Although there are many other terms in use (quasi, pseudo, ersatz, political, civil, etc.), it is ?secular religion? that best expresses the problematic nature of all such descriptions, which maintain that modern belief systems and practices are secular on the one hand and religious on the other. Today, the topic is as popular as ever, and secular religions are discovered far and wide. Hence, a critical summary is urgently necessary. The juxtaposed title is itself an expression of ironic distance. The book emphasizes inherent tensions of relevant literature in a critical and informative fashion. The author provides over 100 entries, from abortion to wokeness, as well as a detailed introduction, which gives an overview of the different definitions of ?religion? and ?secular religion? as well as the history of secular-religious comparisons. The main text reconstructs the argument of several key works on each given topic, while lists of sources for further reading are provided at the end of each entry.

This book provides a clear introduction to ?secular religions? and will appeal to researchers and students of religious studies, political philosophy, political theology, the history of ideologies, and cultural studies.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Introduction

A         Abortion

           Anarchism

           Animal Rights

           Anti-Racism

           Art

           Artificial Intelligence

           Atheism

B         Beauty

           Biotechnology

           BLM

           Bolshevism

           Boxing

C         Capitalism

           Celeb culture

           Climate Activism

           Cloning

           Colonialism

           Communism

           Computer Science

           Constitutionalism

           Consumerism

           Critical Race Theory

           Cultural Marxism

D         Dataism

           Darwinism

           Democracy

           DNA

E         Ecology

           Economics

           Electism

           Enlightenment

           Entertainment

           Environmentalism

           Evolutionism

F          Fandom

            Fascism

            Feminism

            Fitness

            Food

            Football

G         Gender

            Genetics

H         Health

            History

            Humanism

            Human Rights

I           Individualism

J           Juche

K         Kung Fu

L          Legalism

            Leninism

            Liberalism

            Love

M         Maoism

            Marxism

            Medicine

            Multiculturalism

N         Nationalism

            Nazism

            Nietzscheism

            Neoliberalism

O         Olympism

P          Pacifism

            Panopticism

            Patriotism

            Personality Cult

            Political Correctness

            Pop Culture

            Populism

            Positivism

            Postcolonialism

            Posthumanism

            Postmodernism

            Progress

            Psychology

R         Racism

            Republicanism

            Revolution

            Rock

S          Scientism

            Selfies

            Selfism

            Sex

            Singularity

            Skateboarding

            Social Justice Culture

            Social Media

            Socialism

            Sports

            Stalinism

           Statism

           Superintelligence

T          Technology

            Thinness

            Transhumanism

U         UFOs

           UN

           Übermensch

V         Veganism

           Vegetarianism

W         War

            Warmism

            Wokeness