Abstract

This issue of Telos includes several articles that address questions of religion and liturgy, especially in their capacity as vehicles of a critique of modernity. The arguments are varied and the accounts of religion by no means mutually compatible. Yet, prior to any consideration of the individual positions, it is urgent to anticipate the apprehension that this “liturgical turn” probably awakens. Readers of the journal are accustomed to theory, of course, but typically in its relation to philosophical or political issues which in one way or another derive from the concerns of a self-critical Left: heterodox neo-Marxism, East European dissidence,…