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history and remains subject to ongoing development, effectively reifies what it intends to study. The Frankfurt theorists argue ...

tial for freedom calls for criticizing what an inevitable formalization has made of the potential.” The tension that arises beca ...

Examining rational choice theory on religion through the lens of Horkheimer and Adorno’s criticism of positivism demonstrates th ...

Adorno and Horkheimer on Religion The different theoretical basis of the critical theory of Horkheimer and Adorno results in a v ...

Adorno and Horkheimer, theorists like Stark and Iannaccone reduce religion to a theory of compensators, without probing into the ...

dence of a deeper social experience than does a mere account of currently existing attitudes. It offers an opportunity to examin ...

by rational choice theory. For Adorno, “certainly a ratiothat does not wan- tonly absolutize itself as a rigid means of dominati ...

posits itself as absolute. Language in the emphatic sense, language which wants to be truth, is chattering silence” (1978:178). ...

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Kenneth G. MacKendrick Intersubjectivity and Religious Language: Toward a Critique of Regressive Trends in Thanatology^1 We are ...

with an emphasis on death and dying and, second, to outline a critique of recent trends in thanatology that encourage or contrib ...

Traditional Death Walter ’s analysis of the postmodern attitude toward death is situated as part of one of three schemas illustr ...

One of the strongest indicators of the nature and coherence of “traditional death” is the relatively stable view of a prototypic ...

(Walter 1994:15). In the modern context there is very little overall opposition to processes and procedures of rationalization a ...

lack of emotional depth and communicative connection, what surfaces in these impersonal rational processes is the recognition of ...

prehensible. Thus, religious language may be more of a hindrance to pro- viding care to the dying and the bereaved. This is not ...

According to Walter, one of the dangers of postmodern authority is that it eclipses the traditional separation of public and pri ...

To be sure, the way in which death and dying are viewed, either philo- sophically or culturally, tells us something about the so ...

arguing that it is better to acknowledge that western society paradoxically denies death and affirms it simultaneously (Walter 1 ...

mechanisms of support and comfort rather than as authoritative normative structures. The return of religion, within the sphere o ...