Critical Transformations: Macrostructures, Religion, and Critique

Zuidervaart, Lambert

dc.contributor.author	Zuidervaart, Lambert
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-22T15:03:58Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-22T15:03:58Z
dc.date.issued	2013-11
dc.identifier.citation	Zuidervaart, Lambert. "Critical Transformations: Macrostructures, Religion, and Critique." Critical Research on Religion 1.3 (2013): 243-269	en_GB
dc.identifier.issn	2050-3032
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10756/305702
dc.description	The version of this essay in ICS’s Institutional Repository is the one accepted for publication. The final definitive version, which includes an abstract and keywords as well as a diagram of societal macrostructures, has been published in the journal Critical Research on Religion 1.3 (2013): 243-269 by SAGE Publications Ltd., All rights reserved. © Lambert Zuidervaart. The published version has the DOI 10.1177/2050303213506475 and can be found at the SAGE Journals Online site: http://online.sagepub.com	en_GB
dc.description.abstract	Can critical research on religion offer both an ideology critique and a critical retrieval of religious import? This essay suggests that it can, offering a programmatic sketch for a full-fledged critique of religion—a critique both aimed at religion and inspired by religion in a self-critical fashion. The sketch weds elements of a robustly normative critique of Western society with insights derived from the Frankfurt School. First the essay maps three societal macrostructures that organize much of contemporary social life—civil society, proprietary economy, and administrative state. Then it discusses solidarity, resourcefulness, and justice as societal principles that can sustain a critique of societal macrostructures. Next it identifies normative deficiencies within and between these macrostructures. On the basis of this architectonic critique, the essay then provides an account of religion in its critical and utopian roles. It concludes by envisioning a normative and emancipatory transformation of society as a whole.
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications Ltd.	en_GB
dc.relation.uri	DOI 10.1177/2050303213506475
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
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dc.subject	Administrative state	en_GB
dc.subject	Capitalism	en_GB
dc.subject	Civil society	en_GB
dc.subject	Critical theory	en_GB
dc.subject	Religion	en_GB
dc.subject	Social transformation	en_GB
dc.subject.lcsh	State, The	en_GB
dc.subject.lcsh	Capitalism	en_GB
dc.subject.lcsh	Civil society	en_GB
dc.subject.lcsh	Religion	en_GB
dc.title	Critical Transformations: Macrostructures, Religion, and Critique	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.contributor.department	Institute for Christian Studies and University of Toronto, Canada	en_GB
dc.identifier.journal	Critical Research on Religion	en_GB
dc.rights.holder	Published by: Sage Publications Ltd. Available online to libraries and individuals through SAGE Premier 2013. DOI 10.1177/2050303213506475	en_GB
refterms.dateFOA	2018-03-05T13:07:11Z
html.description.abstract	Can critical research on religion offer both an ideology critique and a critical retrieval of religious import? This essay suggests that it can, offering a programmatic sketch for a full-fledged critique of religion—a critique both aimed at religion and inspired by religion in a self-critical fashion. The sketch weds elements of a robustly normative critique of Western society with insights derived from the Frankfurt School. First the essay maps three societal macrostructures that organize much of contemporary social life—civil society, proprietary economy, and administrative state. Then it discusses solidarity, resourcefulness, and justice as societal principles that can sustain a critique of societal macrostructures. Next it identifies normative deficiencies within and between these macrostructures. On the basis of this architectonic critique, the essay then provides an account of religion in its critical and utopian roles. It concludes by envisioning a normative and emancipatory transformation of society as a whole.