Pierre Bourdieu
Bourdieu's term for the arena of social competition, such as the religious one.
What is a field?
Foucault's method of analyzing the historical link between power and knowledge.
What is genealogy?
This term for a grand, overarching story (like secularism's triumph) collapsed, making space for religion's return.
What is a metanarrative or master narrative?
This term describes the embodied, pre-reflective dispositions that generates religious practice.
What is habitus?
Foucault described his work as a "history of" this temporal moment.
What is the present?
This philosopher is cited for seeing religion as the most powerful "symbolic form" humanity has created.
Who is Terry Eagleton?
The process where religious capital, like sacraments, is converted into social or political power.
What is transubstantiation?
This term, central to his later work, refers to practices through which individuals transform themselves to attain truth.
What are technologies of the self?
Gianni Vattimo argues that Western modernity is essentially this, but in a secularized form.
What is Christianity?
Bourdieu argued religion does this to the social order by making inequality seem natural.
What is legitimate or consecrate?
Foucault argued that in Western societies, life was controlled through a scientific knowledge of the sexual body, or through this.
What is scientia sexualis?
The concept, used by Jantzen and Irigaray, of a "sensible" form of this, which is wholly immanent to the world.
What is the transcendental (or "sensible transcendental")?
Bourdieu's fundamental answer to what religion provides: a systematic answer to these, such as suffering and death.
What are ultimate questions?
Foucault's concept for the process of showing how and why certain issues become objects of concern at specific historical moments.
What is problematization?
This movement, led by John Milbank, responded to the philosophical opening by reasserting the legitimacy of older Christian understandings of truth.
What is Radical Orthodoxy?