Lorenz Trein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenz Trein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenz |
| FAMILY NAME | Trein |
| SIGNATURE | TREIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4350-5936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Säkulare Religion
Die Annahme einer Binarität von dem Säkularen versus dem Religiösen beruht letztlich noch auf dem Mythos des 19. Jahrhunderts: Die wieder erstarkte Papstkirche benötigte für ihren Mythos von der Enteignung (Säkularisation, Säkularisierung) genuin religiöser Bereiche durch die Französische Republik eine Definition, die menschlichen Zugriffen sakrosankt enthoben ist. Während Religion sich demnach durch den Bezug auf die metaphysische Transzendenz d…
Beobachtungen der Säkularisierung und Die Grenzen der Religion
Wie und anhand welcher Unterscheidungen wird das Verhältnis von religiösen und säkularen Perspektiven auf Religion heute beobachtet? Lorenz Trein zeigt, dass die postkoloniale Kritik am Säkularismus Modernediagnosen einer nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg geführten Debatte über den Zusammenhang von Christentum, Säkularisierung und Fortschritt aufgenommen hat. Diese hat mit der (Un-)Möglichkeit einer historischen Realisierung der eschatologischen Botscha…
Multiple Times of Disenchantment and Secularization
Narratives of Disenchantment and Secularization
"What does it really mean to be modern? The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber's historical idea of disenchantment and to develop further his understanding of what the contested relationship between modernity and religion represents. The approach is distinctive because it focuses on disenchantment as key to understanding those aspects of modern society and culture that Weber diagnosed. This is in opp…
On Genealogy Critique of Secularized Christianity
Genealogy critique has furthered the debate about how theological ideas continue to inform secular claims in modernity. At the same time, there are arguments suggesting that genealogy critique tends to locate secular modernity inside theological self-descriptions of the world-historical and eschatological orientation of Christianity. This article sheds light on theological debates that directly or indirectly informed notions of rupture and contin…
Feeling Religion (As a Matter of Method)
Contemporary debates about the renewed significance of emotions and affects in the study of religion perpetuate the disciplinary work of analyzing religion vis-à-vis contested approaches to the history of religions. The article takes a comparative and historio-theoretical approach to the burgeoning field of religious emotions and affects in order to ask how specific arguments about methodology resonate with contested scholarly ideas and narrative…
Governing the Fear of Islam
This article reflects on the historio-political quest for continuity and discontinuity between Orientalism and Islamophobia by looking at theories of emotions and the politics of secular affect in historical debate. It is argued that both contemporary Islamophobia and early twentieth-century colonial discourse converge in the transformation of Islam into a political subject matter of “affective governance” (Nitzan Shoshan), the rationale of which…
Islamophobia Reconsidered
1The article challenges the unexplained subject matter of emotions and affects in the study of Islamophobia. As a first step, I will pinpoint how scholars in the field of political and social sciences construe affective dimensions of Islamophobia as irrational in opposition to rational behavior and interest in politics and thereby virtually exclude emotions and affects as suitable subjects from scholarly discourse. In contrast, I will suggest ana…
Die Gegenwart der Religionsgeschichtsschreibung
This paper analyzes notions of the present in the discussion on history of European religion. It argues that meanings and concepts of the present can he seen as part of the debate on normativity of writing the history of religions. Focusing on theory of historiography, the discussion on a distinct perspective of the study of religion appears in a new light
Islamophobia Reconsidered
1The article challenges the unexplained subject matter of emotions and affects in the study of Islamophobia. As a first step, I will pinpoint how scholars in the field of political and social sciences construe affective dimensions of Islamophobia as irrational in opposition to rational behavior and interest in politics and thereby virtually exclude emotions and affects as suitable subjects from scholarly discourse. In contrast, I will suggest ana…
Feeling Religion (As a Matter of Method)
Contemporary debates about the renewed significance of emotions and affects in the study of religion perpetuate the disciplinary work of analyzing religion vis-à-vis contested approaches to the history of religions. The article takes a comparative and historio-theoretical approach to the burgeoning field of religious emotions and affects in order to ask how specific arguments about methodology resonate with contested scholarly ideas and narrative…
Die Gegenwart der Religionsgeschichtsschreibung
This paper analyzes notions of the present in the discussion on history of European religion. It argues that meanings and concepts of the present can he seen as part of the debate on normativity of writing the history of religions. Focusing on theory of historiography, the discussion on a distinct perspective of the study of religion appears in a new light
Islamophobia Reconsidered
1The article challenges the unexplained subject matter of emotions and affects in the study of Islamophobia. As a first step, I will pinpoint how scholars in the field of political and social sciences construe affective dimensions of Islamophobia as irrational in opposition to rational behavior and interest in politics and thereby virtually exclude emotions and affects as suitable subjects from scholarly discourse. In contrast, I will suggest ana…
Governing the Fear of Islam
This article reflects on the historio-political quest for continuity and discontinuity between Orientalism and Islamophobia by looking at theories of emotions and the politics of secular affect in historical debate. It is argued that both contemporary Islamophobia and early twentieth-century colonial discourse converge in the transformation of Islam into a political subject matter of “affective governance” (Nitzan Shoshan), the rationale of which…
Feeling Religion (As a Matter of Method)
Contemporary debates about the renewed significance of emotions and affects in the study of religion perpetuate the disciplinary work of analyzing religion vis-à-vis contested approaches to the history of religions. The article takes a comparative and historio-theoretical approach to the burgeoning field of religious emotions and affects in order to ask how specific arguments about methodology resonate with contested scholarly ideas and narrative…
Narratives of Disenchantment and Secularization
"What does it really mean to be modern? The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber's historical idea of disenchantment and to develop further his understanding of what the contested relationship between modernity and religion represents. The approach is distinctive because it focuses on disenchantment as key to understanding those aspects of modern society and culture that Weber diagnosed. This is in opp…
On Genealogy Critique of Secularized Christianity
Genealogy critique has furthered the debate about how theological ideas continue to inform secular claims in modernity. At the same time, there are arguments suggesting that genealogy critique tends to locate secular modernity inside theological self-descriptions of the world-historical and eschatological orientation of Christianity. This article sheds light on theological debates that directly or indirectly informed notions of rupture and contin…
Multiple Times of Disenchantment and Secularization
Beobachtungen der Säkularisierung und Die Grenzen der Religion
Wie und anhand welcher Unterscheidungen wird das Verhältnis von religiösen und säkularen Perspektiven auf Religion heute beobachtet? Lorenz Trein zeigt, dass die postkoloniale Kritik am Säkularismus Modernediagnosen einer nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg geführten Debatte über den Zusammenhang von Christentum, Säkularisierung und Fortschritt aufgenommen hat. Diese hat mit der (Un-)Möglichkeit einer historischen Realisierung der eschatologischen Botscha…
Säkulare Religion
Die Annahme einer Binarität von dem Säkularen versus dem Religiösen beruht letztlich noch auf dem Mythos des 19. Jahrhunderts: Die wieder erstarkte Papstkirche benötigte für ihren Mythos von der Enteignung (Säkularisation, Säkularisierung) genuin religiöser Bereiche durch die Französische Republik eine Definition, die menschlichen Zugriffen sakrosankt enthoben ist. Während Religion sich demnach durch den Bezug auf die metaphysische Transzendenz d…
Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)