Master Class: “The Power of the Sacred” with Hans Joas
Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, ILOpen to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings. The first 15 registrants will receive free copies of The Power of the Sacred. In the last twenty or thirty years, the co-called secularization thesis has lost much of its plausibility. This thesis means more than empirical statements about quantitative developments in the area of religious faith, practices or institutions. Rather, it refers to a particular explanation for such developments - namely, that there is a strong causal connection between societal modernization and the weakening of religion - in...