Exploring the Postsecular
The Religious, the Political and the Urban
Edited by Arie L. Molendijk, Justin Beaumont and Christoph Jedan, University of Groningen.
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Biographical note
Arie L. Molendijk, Ph.D. (1991) is Professor of the History of Christianity and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Groningen. His latest book is The Emergence of the Science of Religion in the Netherlands (Brill 2005).
Justin Beaumont, Ph.D. (2000) is Lecturer in Urban Geography and Planning at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. He is currently working on a monograph Cities of the Secular for consideration at Wiley-Blackwell.
Christoph Jedan, Ph.D. (1999) is Lecturer in Ethics at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen. His latest book is Stoic Virtues: Chrysippus and the Religious Character of Stoic Ethics (Continuum 2009).
Justin Beaumont, Ph.D. (2000) is Lecturer in Urban Geography and Planning at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. He is currently working on a monograph Cities of the Secular for consideration at Wiley-Blackwell.
Christoph Jedan, Ph.D. (1999) is Lecturer in Ethics at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen. His latest book is Stoic Virtues: Chrysippus and the Religious Character of Stoic Ethics (Continuum 2009).
Readership
All those interested in urban sociology, urban religion, urban geography and planning, religious studies and sociology of religion, as well as contextual theology and political philosophy.
Table of contents
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