Religion, Theology and the Human SciencesReligion, Theology and the Human Sciences explores the religious consequences of the so-called 'end of history' and 'triumph of capitalism' as they have impinged upon key institutions of social reproduction in recent times. The book explores the imposition of managerial modernity upon successive sectors of society and shows why many people today feel themselves to be oppressed by systems of management that seem to leave them no option but to conform. Richard Roberts seeks to challenge and outflank such seamless, oppressive modernity, through reconfiguration of the religious and spiritual field. |
Contents
The closed circle Marxism Christianity and the End of History | 15 |
Religion and the enterprise culture the British experience from Thatcher to Blair 19792000 | 36 |
Power and empowerment New Age managers and the dialectics of modernitypostmodernity | 62 |
The end of the university and the last academic? | 86 |
THEOLOGY AND POWER IN THE MATRIX OF MODERNITYPOSTMODERNITY | 111 |
Lord bondsman and churchman integrity identity and power in Anglicanism | 113 |
Ruling the Body the care of souls in a managerial church | 161 |
Theology and the social sciences | 190 |
The souls of Europe identity religion and theology | 217 |
Globalised religion? The Parliament of the Worlds Religions Chicago 1993 in theoretical perspective | 248 |
Time virtuality and the Goddess transmutations of the religious field | 269 |
CONCLUSION | 293 |
Identity as vocation the prospect for rel1gion | 295 |
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RELIGION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE IDENTITY GLOBALISATION AND THE TRANSMUTATION OF THE RELIGIOUS FIELD | 215 |
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