Faith in Secular Life - Couverture souple

Percy, Martyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0718898230 ISBN 13 : 9780718898236

Editeur : Lutterworth Press, 2026

Synopsis

Faith in Secular Life finds signals of transcendence in the most unlikely places. Drawing on film, novels, popular culture, music, sport and secular buildings, the Very Revd. Prof. Martyn Percy shows that the modern world teems with transcendent debris. He tracks how quotidian 'Implicit Religion' (a term coined by Edward Bailey, 1935-2015) reveals sacred currents lying just beneath the surface of 'secular' life. Following Bailey, Percy holds that the lens of Implicit Religion is essentially 'bifocal' in nature. It allows simultaneous focus on elements in the foreground and aspects which lie at a greater distance. Observing immediate, ordinary human activity against the more distant horizon of 'secularisation', Bailey's bifocal aperture brought the two together and placed them in a single framework for discussion. However, whilst Implicit Religion was fundamentally about identifying people's commitments, Faith in Secular Life pursues the idea further to analyse specific areas of contemporary culture which would normally be seen as faithless. Individuals may be unconscious that their actions can be understood as 'religious', yet, Percy maintains, their participation remains saturated with sacredness and spirituality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Very Revd. Prof. Martyn Percy lives in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the Provost Theologian for Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui and Professor of Religion and Culture at the University of Saint Joseph Macao. He also works as Senior Research Associate at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, and as a Research Professor of Theology at the University of Bern, with further Fellowships at Edinburgh, London and Oxford universities. He writes and teaches on culture, faith, values and public life, and contributes to Prospect, The Guardian and The Times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lutterworth Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0718898230
• ISBN 13: 9780718898236
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 233
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