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Religion and innovation : antagonists or partners? / edited by Donald A. Yerxa.

Contributor(s): Yerxa, Donald A, 1950- [editor.].
London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, ©2016Description: ix, 309 pages : 24 cm. illustrations.Content type: text. ISBN: 9781472591012 (HB); 9781472591289 (PB).Subject(s): Religion and culture | Civilization, Modern | Technology -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 201.7/R27 Other classification: CAS
Contents:
Introduction / Donald A. Yerxa -- Innovation, religion and authority at the formative period Andean cult centre of Chavín de Huántar / John W. Rick -- Religion and political innovation in ancient Mesoamerica / Arthur A. Joyce and Sarah B. Barber -- Religious innovation at the Emerald acropolis: something new under the moon / Timothy R. Pauketat and Susan M. Alt -- The first Enlightenment: the patristic roots of religious freedom / Timothy Samuel Shah -- Religion, innovation and secular modernity / Peter Harrison -- Religion, scientific naturalism and historical progress / Peter Harrison -- Religion, Enlightenment and the paradox of innovation, c. 1650-1760 / William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram -- Remembering the Reformation, 1817 and 1883: commemorating the past as agent and mirror of social change / Thomas Albert Howard -- Secularization and religious innovation: a transatlantic comparison / David Hempton and Hugh McLeod -- Christian transnationalists, nationhood and the construction of civil society / Dana L. Robert -- Sin, guilt and the future of progress / Wilfred M. McClay -- Religious innovation and economic empowerment in India: an empirical exploration / Rebecca Samuel Shah -- Century of progress? Chicago after Daniel Burnham / Philip H. Bess -- Technologies of imagination: secularism, transhumanism and the idiom of progress / J. Benjamin Hurlbut -- Afterword: innovation and religion, today and tomorrow / Adam Keiper.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-293) and index.

Introduction / Donald A. Yerxa -- Innovation, religion and authority at the formative period Andean cult centre of Chavín de Huántar / John W. Rick -- Religion and political innovation in ancient Mesoamerica / Arthur A. Joyce and Sarah B. Barber -- Religious innovation at the Emerald acropolis: something new under the moon / Timothy R. Pauketat and Susan M. Alt -- The first Enlightenment: the patristic roots of religious freedom / Timothy Samuel Shah -- Religion, innovation and secular modernity / Peter Harrison -- Religion, scientific naturalism and historical progress / Peter Harrison -- Religion, Enlightenment and the paradox of innovation, c. 1650-1760 / William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram -- Remembering the Reformation, 1817 and 1883: commemorating the past as agent and mirror of social change / Thomas Albert Howard -- Secularization and religious innovation: a transatlantic comparison / David Hempton and Hugh McLeod -- Christian transnationalists, nationhood and the construction of civil society / Dana L. Robert -- Sin, guilt and the future of progress / Wilfred M. McClay -- Religious innovation and economic empowerment in India: an empirical exploration / Rebecca Samuel Shah -- Century of progress? Chicago after Daniel Burnham / Philip H. Bess -- Technologies of imagination: secularism, transhumanism and the idiom of progress / J. Benjamin Hurlbut -- Afterword: innovation and religion, today and tomorrow / Adam Keiper.

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