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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] Future Knowledge and Religion. Competitive Practices and Discourses of Time and Temporality (1700–1900)
DESCRIPTION:The openness of the future and the associated freedom for manufacturing future times are considered privileges of modernity.However, in the face of competitive patterns of interpretation, freedom and optimism in shaping the future seem to be reaching their limits at the moment. While the future is beginning to transform itself into a technological vision of progress, it is imagined as an apocalyptic doomed scenario due to environmental damage and the climate catastrophe. Regardless of whether it is positive or negative, under the time regime of the threatened future, time itself seems to be shrinking more and more. Suddenly, the anticipated shortened future of this kind comes remarkably close to the prospect of the divine Last Judgement, which has already been overcome. In both concepts, man is addressed as accelerator of the available time. However, this means that thinking and acting in a predetermined future can no longer be limited to the ‘premodern’ with its traditional religious time models. Considering this reluctant handling of time and temporality, the section asks for competitive practices in the making of the future across the epochs. It will analyze the complex interweaving of time knowledge and religion. According to the main historiographical narrative, it is only the secularization of the future, in the course of the Enlightenment, that has enabled a drastic change in the conception of time and thus the development of an open action-oriented future. Consequently, religion does not appear or no longer appears as a tool for manufacturing the future.While there is nowadays a consensus in historiographical future research that manufacturing of future times cannot be regarded as a privilege of the modern age, the question of the importance of religion for conceptions of the future is still a blind spot. This desideratum is taken up by scholars of the sociology of religion and history gathered in the section. They will discuss the crucial role of religion for conceptions of the future between 1700 and 1900.


      


  
Der Beitrag Future Knowledge and Religion. Competitive Practices and Discourses of Time and Temporality (1700–1900) erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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