Special Issue of Social Imaginaries, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2017
Special issue: Approaches to Religion
Guest Edited by Johann P. Arnason
Table of Contents
- Introduction, by Johann P. Arnason
- The Inner Lives of Javanese Muslims: Modern Sufi Visions in Indonesian Islam, by Joel S. Kahn
- ‘Religion’ as Conceptualised in a Roman Perspective, by Jörg Rüpke
- ‘Hermeneutik des Neuen’. Ruptures and Innovations of Religious Interpretation—Reflections from Indian Religious History: The Case of Bhakti, by Martin Fuchs
- Terrorism as ‘Apocalyptic Violence’: On the Meaning and Validity of a New Analytical Category, by Matthais Riedl
- Theorizing the History of Religions: The Weberian Agenda and its Unresolved Issues, by Johann P. Arnason
Varia section
- Critical Introduction to Alain Caillé and Marcel Gauchet: An Exchange on the Place of Religious Meaning in the Self-Institution of Human Societies, by Natalie J. Doyle
- On the Politico-Religious: Seventeen Embryonic Theses (Plus One) Written in the Spirit of Sociological Topics, by Alain Caillé (translated by Natalie J. Doyle)
- The Political and Religion: Twelve Propositions in Reply to Alain Caillé, by Marcel Gauchet (translated by Natalie J. Doyle)
- New Theses on Religion, by Alain Caillé (translated by Natalie J. Doyle and George Renuka)
- Cornelius Castoriadis and Claude Lefort: The Question of Autonomy, by Robert Legros (translated by Steve Rothnie)
- Emancipatory Alternatives, Sites of Resistance: Social Subversion, Political Contestation, and Dystopic Imaginaries, by Roger Savage
- Who Is Afraid of The Myth of the State? Remarks on Cassirer’s Unpublished Manuscript, by Chiara Bottici