Contents

pp ix-x

General editors' preface

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: from the secular to the supernatural

pp 1-18

PART I - Society, religion and human agency

pp 19-20

1 - Society and the critique of modernity

pp 21-38

2 - The present social function of religion

pp 39-47

3 - From inwardness to social action: the transformation of the political

pp 48-62

4 - The Christian question to radicalism

pp 63-74

PART II - Praxis, narrative and religious language

pp 75-76

5 - Theology and praxis

pp 77-95

6 - Revelation, historical continuity and the rationality of tradition

pp 96-111

7 - The political use and misuse of religious language

pp 112-128

PART III - From the modern subject to the postmodern self

pp 129-130

8 - Our new religious identity

pp 131-152

9 - Post-modernity and the formation of the self

pp 153-170

PART IV - The option for the future

pp 171-172

10 - What remains of socialism as a moral and religious ideal

pp 173-187

11 - Communicative rationality and the grounding of religious hope

pp 188-205

Index

pp 206-208

Cambridge Studies In Ideology And Religion

pp 209-209