Religious spaces as continually evolving modernities
Forms of encounter with modernity in Christian Orthodoxy and Islam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21492902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alina Pătru (0000-0002-5811-8306, University of Pretoria, corresponding author), Alina G Pătru |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0259-9422 • E-ISSN: 2072-8050 |
| Publisher | AOSIS (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.4102/hts.v77i4.6681 |
| OpenAlex | W3197035275 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
The present study deals with the encounter with modernity in two neighbouring religious spaces: Christian Orthodoxy and Islam. Relying on Eisenstadt’s theory about multiple modernities and on its further developments by Thomas Mergel and Kristina Stoeckl, Islamic and Christian-Orthodox dynamics in relation to the challenges of modernity are examined under two aspects: first, the decoupling between religion and culture as elaborated by Olivier Roy, and second, the development of modernist and fundamentalist currents as phenomena of modernity. The study contributes to the sketching of the profile of Islamic and the Christian-Orthodox modernities, pointing both to some of the commonalities and the differences, and inquiring the nature of their distinctiveness. Further on, it contributes to the theoretic discussion on modernity and its various, contextually shaped forms, shedding new light on the relation between the trigger of social changes and their processual character. Contribution: Inside the Christian Orthodox and the Islamic religious space the decoupling between religion and culture and the development of modernist and fundamentalist currents are analysed as markers of the second modernity that arises from the encounter of the worlds mentioned with the challenges of the first modernity
Epistemology · Islam · Modernity · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Orthodoxy · Sociology · Theology · Byzantine Studies and History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |