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Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin. For more than twenty years, he was a Visiting Professor of Sociology and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Among his numerous prizes are the Max Planck Research Award in 2015; the Prix Paul Ricoeur in 2017; and the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award of the German Sociological Association in 2022. Some of his books in English include The Power of the Sacred (Oxford, 2021); G.H. Mead, A Contemporary Re-examination of His Thought, Pragmatism and Social Theory; The Creativity of Action, The Genesis of Values, War and Modernity, The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights, and Faith as an Option: Possible Futures for Christianity. He has also published two books with Wolfgang Knoebl: Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures and War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present and has edited several volumes, including The Axial Age and Its Consequences (with Robert Bellah).
Hans Joas, for decades now one of the world's most influential social theorists, sociologist and theorist of religion, and diagnostician of the modern age, has written an extraordinary, bracing book about the relation between the modern discourses of about religion and the modern idea of freedom. No one interested in any of these topics, especially no one interested in accounts of secularization and its meaning, can afford to ignore Joas's passionate, pellucid discussion. * Robert Pippin, The University of Chicago * Hans Joas is arguably the most important moral philosopher writing in German today. This book will go a long way in making clear to the Anglophone world why that is so. * Robert Norton, University of Notre Dame * Hans Joas is one of the most recognized and renowned contemporary sociologists of religion. In this book, he tackles a center question in the modern discussion of religion. What is the relation, if any, between public freedom and religious conviction? Through a wide-ranging discussion of crucial topics and thinkers, Under the Spell of Freedom takes the reader into the depths of this question. Importantly, Joas draws on his previous work on American pragmatism, human dignity, and human rights to offer an alternative conception of the connection between religion and freedom. This should be read and pondered by every serious student of religion and society. It is a fresh and exciting contribution to the field. * William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, The University of Chicago *
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