Title Secularism, theology and Islam : the Danish social imaginary and the cartoon crisis of 2005-2006 / Jennifer Elisa Veninga

Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Framing the Cartoon Crisis; What was this all about?; What this book is, what this book is not; 1 A Historical Sequence of Events: The Crisis of 2005-2006; Kåre Bluitgen and Jyllands-Posten; Cartoons and cartoonists; Initial reactions in Denmark and abroad; Reprinting the cartoons; Legal decisions; Calming of the crisis; 2 Immediate Interpretations of the Crisis; The clash of civilizations; The role of international politics; 3 The Social Imaginary as Theological Methodology The public and social character of theologyThe imagination: An overview in Western philosophy and the Abrahamic traditions; The social imagination; Charles Taylor's social imaginary as critical methodology; 4 Popular Understandings: Folkelighed and N.F.S. Grundtvig; N.F.S. Grundtvig and Danish Folkelighed; Mythology, language and history in relation to Folkelighed; Freedom as an aspect of Folkelighed; Folkelighed as nationalism?; Folkelighed as theo-secular paradox; 5 Popular Practices and Their Critique: The People's Church and the Welfare System A brief history of the Danish Church through the nineteenth centuryKierkegaard's critique of Danish Christendom and the Folkekirke; The twentieth and twenty-first centuries: The development of the distant church; The welfare system: Another "theo-secular" paradox?; 6 Contextualizing the Danish Social Imaginary: Difference, Otherness, and Islam; Contextualizing Denmark: Europeandiversification and secularization; Narratives of difference and "Otherness" in the Danish social imaginary; Islam and the Danish imaginary: The Viking period to the nineteenth century Islam and the Danish imaginary: Immigration in the twentieth centuryPublic discourse on immigration and Islam before the cartoon crisis; 7 The Cartoons as Expression of Encounter; Appadurai and Kierkegaard on imagination, number, and minority; The religious and social meaning and function of images; Reactions, responses, and the Danish social imaginary; The intelligibility of moral claims and the social imaginary; Conclusion: The Possibilities of Paradox and Theology for a Secular Age; The possibilities of paradox; Face to face: Seeing the neighbor; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Secularism, Theology and Islam offers a uniquely theological analysis of the historic Danish cartoon crisis of 2005-2006, in which the publication of twelve images of the Prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten ignited violent global protests. The crisis represents a politically, culturally, and religiously important event of the early 21st century, and Jennifer Veninga explores the important question of why the cartoons were published in Denmark when they were and why this matters to the larger global community. The book outlines three main interpretations of the affair as th Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Caricatures and cartoons SUBJECT Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 fast Subject Muslims -- Denmark Caricatures and cartoons -- Political aspects -- Denmark Social conflict -- Denmark -- Religious aspects Culture conflict -- Denmark -- Religious aspects Islam -- Denmark Islam. Theology. Religion: general. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Caricatures and cartoons -- Political aspects Culture conflict -- Religious aspects Ethnic relations Islam Muslims Social conflict -- Religious aspects SUBJECT Denmark -- Ethnic relations Subject Denmark Genre/Form Caricatures and cartoons Form Electronic book ISBN 9781472528643 1472528646 9781472594631 1472594630 147252389X 9781472523891

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