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What should we make of the return to the sacred evidenced by the new vitality of churches, sects, and religious beliefs in many parts of the world today? What are the boundaries between the essential traits of religion and those of ethics and justice? Is there a truth” to religion? This remarkable volume includes reflections on such questions by three of the most important philosophers of our timeJacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Together with other distinguished thinkers, they address a wide range of questions about the meaning, status, and future prospects of religion. In his meditation on the return of religion,” entitled Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of Religion’ at the Limits of Mere Reason,” Derrida addresses the ways in which this return is intrinsically linked to transformations of which the new media are both the carriers and the symptom. Derrida coins this process one of globalatinization . This neologism signals, among other things, the process of a certain universalization of the Roman word or concept of religion, which tends to become hegemonic, as well as a certain performativity discernible in the new media and in contemporary str

Who reads Religion (Cultural Memory in the Present)?

Author

Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo, David Webb

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804734868

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Religion, Social Science

Rating

3.87 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14