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Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one's ethical gaze. Evil and moral blindness lurk in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of everyday life, and not just in the abnormal and exceptional cases. The distinctive kind of moral blindness that characterizes our societies...

Social ethics --- Apathy. --- Social ethics. --- Adiaphora --- Apathy --- Indifferentism (Religion) --- Ethics --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Indifference, Religious --- Religious indifference --- Religion --- Impassivity --- Indifference --- Unconcern --- Emotions --- Middle things --- Casuistry --- Rites and ceremonies --- Theology, Doctrinal

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This book provides a conceptually and empirically rich introduction to religious indifference on the basis of original anthropological, historical and sociological research. Religious indifference is a central category for understanding contemporary societies, and a controversial one. For some scholars, a growing religious indifference indicates a dramatic decline in religiosity and epitomizes the endpoint of secularization processes. Others view it as an indicator of moral apathy and philosophical nihilism, whilst yet others see it as paving the way for new forms of political tolerance and solidarity. This volume describes and analyses the symbolic power of religious indifference and the conceptual contestations surrounding it. Detailed case studies cover anthropological and qualitative data from the UK, Germany, Estonia, the USA, Canada, and India analyse large quantitative data sets, and provide philosophical-literary inquiries into the phenomenon. They highlight how, for different actors and agendas, religious indifference can constitute an objective or a challenge. Pursuing a relational approach to non-religion, the book conceptualizes religious indifference in its interrelatedness with religion as well as more avowed forms of non-religion.

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Indifference [Religious ] --- Indifferentism (Religion) --- Indifferentisme (Godsdienst) --- Indifférence (Religion) --- Indifférence religieuse --- Indifférentisme (Religion) --- Onverschilligheid [Godsdienstige ] --- 299.6 --- 266.2*0 <6> --- Indifference, Religious --- Religious indifference --- Religion --- Godsdiensten van Bantoes, Niloten, Soedannegers, Pygmeeën, Kaffers, Hottentotten, Bosjesmannen, Galla's, Bassuto's, Zoeloes --- Lokale theologieën. Indigenisatie. Acculturatie--(algemeen)--Afrika --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- -Africa, Black --- Africa, Subsaharan --- Africa, Tropical --- Africa South of the Sahara --- Black Africa --- Sub-Sahara Africa --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Subsahara Africa --- Subsaharan Africa --- Tropical Africa --- -Religion --- 266.2*0 <6> Lokale theologieën. Indigenisatie. Acculturatie--(algemeen)--Afrika --- 299.6 Godsdiensten van Afrikaanse zwarte volkeren --- 299.6 Godsdiensten van Bantoes, Niloten, Soedannegers, Pygmeeën, Kaffers, Hottentotten, Bosjesmannen, Galla's, Bassuto's, Zoeloes --- Godsdiensten van Afrikaanse zwarte volkeren --- Indifferentism (Religion). --- Religion. --- C1 --- Afrika [werelddeel] --- christendom --- Kerken en religie --- Africa [Sub-Saharan ]