Secular Religions

Auteur

Tamás Nyirkos is Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Politics and Government at the Ludovika University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary, and Associate Professor of the Institute of International Studies and Political Science at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary.

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Secular Religions: The Key Concepts provides a concise guide to those ideologies, worldviews, and social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that are most often described as the modern counterparts of traditional religions.

Résumé

Secular Religions: The Key Concepts provides a concise guide to those ideologies, worldviews, and social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that are most often described as the modern counterparts of traditional religions.

Although there are many other terms in use (quasi, pseudo, ersatz, political, civil, etc.), it is secular religion that best expresses the problematic nature of all such descriptions, which maintain that modern belief systems and practices are secular on the one hand and religious on the other. Today, the topic is as popular as ever, and secular religions are discovered far and wide. Hence, a critical summary is urgently necessary. The juxtaposed title is itself an expression of ironic distance. The book emphasizes inherent tensions of relevant literature in a critical and informative fashion. The author provides over 100 entries, from abortion to wokeness, as well as a detailed introduction, which gives an overview of the different definitions of religion and secular religion as well as the history of secular-religious comparisons. The main text reconstructs the argument of several key works on each given topic, while lists of sources for further reading are provided at the end of each entry.

This book provides a clear introduction to secular religions and will appeal to researchers and students of religious studies, political philosophy, political theology, the history of ideologies, and cultural studies.

Contenu

Introduction

A Abortion

Anarchism

Animal Rights

Anti-Racism

Art

Artificial Intelligence

Atheism

B Beauty

Biotechnology

BLM

Bolshevism

Boxing

C Capitalism

Celeb culture

Climate Activism

Cloning

Colonialism

Communism

Computer Science

Constitutionalism

Consumerism

Critical Race Theory

Cultural Marxism

D Dataism

Darwinism

Democracy

DNA

E Ecology

Economics

Electism

Enlightenment

Entertainment

Environmentalism

Evolutionism

F Fandom

Fascism

Feminism

Fitness

Food

Football

G Gender

Genetics

H Health

History

Humanism

Human Rights

I Individualism

J Juche

K Kung Fu

L Legalism

Leninism

Liberalism

Love

M Maoism

Marxism

Medicine

Multiculturalism

N Nationalism

Nazism

Nietzscheism

Neoliberalism

O Olympism

P Pacifism

Panopticism

Patriotism

Personality Cult

Political Correctness

Pop Culture

Populism

Positivism

Postcolonialism

Posthumanism

Postmodernism

Progress

Psychology

R Racism

Republicanism

Revolution

Rock

S Scientism

Selfies

Selfism

Sex

Singularity

Skateboarding

Social Justice Culture

Social Media

Socialism

Sports

Stalinism

Statism

Superintelligence

T Technology

Thinness

Transhumanism

U UFOs

UN

Übermensch

V Veganism

Vegetarianism

W War

Warmism

Wokeness