{"title":"Richard Schaefer","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Schaefer’s work explores the intricate relationship between religion, culture, and society, with a focus on how faith shapes public life. His writing delves into the historical and social dimensions of spirituality, offering thoughtful analysis on the role of religion in innovation and cultural expression during the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find a nuanced examination of \u003cem\u003edevotional activism\u003c\/em\u003e and the ways religious beliefs influence both personal identity and collective movements. Schaefer’s books provide a rich perspective for those interested in the intersections of \u003cstrong\u003eReligion \u0026amp; Spirituality\u003c\/strong\u003e within historical and cultural contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"devotional-activism-public-religion-innovation-and-culture-in-the-nineteenthcentury-by-richard-schaefer-9781587311871","title":"Devotional Activism – Public Religion, Innovation and Culture in the Nineteenth–Century","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern history has not been neutral in telling the story of religion. Since it presumes the centrality of human motives and machinations as the one and only means of explicating the unfolding of ‘events’, it has helped set the terms for what counts as a viable motive and what does not, and this is evident in the systematic unmasking of religion as only really ever about ‘something else’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy distilling more substantive or primary economic, political, or other kinds of motives from the detritus of ‘religion’, the latter is thus consigned to the past as the primitive husk of more substantive and rational ways of thinking and acting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a set of historical case studies, the essays collected here forgo that tendency and suggest different possibilities for conceptualising the fate of religion in the modern world. They chart a different course, one of faith and self-assertion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays take up a variety of episodes from modern European and American history and explore, from various angles, three interrelated themes: \u003cem\u003epublic religion\u003c\/em\u003e, and the role of Catholicism as a determined critic of modernity; religion as an impetus for innovation; and the tendency to reduce religion to culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462831161580,"sku":"9781587311871","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781587311871-devotional-activism-public-religion-innovation-and-culture-in-the-nineteenth-century.jpg?v=1775024052"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/richard-schaefer.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}