In 1966 Hans Blumenberg published Die Legitimitat der Neuzeit, which launched the Lowith-Blumenberg debate over the nature of secularization and the legitimacy of the modern age. ' The widespread discussion the book generated prompted Blumenberg to prepare a revised and expanded three-volume edition between 1973 and 1976. A decade later, with the debate still going strong, Robert M. Wallace mad...

Decentralized and internally diverse, the Global Justice Movement (GJM) is thought to be influenced by its use of the internet. Operating in an environment characterized by the conditions of globalization and late modernity, the movement strives to be a collective that accommodates individual difference. Focusing on the organizing process of the European Social Forum, this article examines the ...

What place is there for holy play in experience-oriented society? Is it possible and useful to make analytic distinctions between the liturgical quality of events? I explored these questions by doing research on the boundaries between the religious field and the field of leisure. Fifty site visits to public events in the Netherlands (2006-2014) resulted in a collection of ethnographic data. I u...

Based on the concept of health as openness to risk, as outlined by Canguilhem in 1946, the authors seek to distinguish between risks that require social protection networks and those that should be tolerated as part of the human condition. To understand this issue, the article analyzes the historical emergence of the risk concept as viewed in early industrial society and its link to the idea of...

In this article, I argue that BDSM sexuality should be conceptualized as a form of "working at play." Considering two dominant models of sexuality, identity and lifestyle, I argue that BDSM is more fluid and less binary than identity Moreover, while lifestyle focusses attention on BDSM as consumptive labour, this model does not adequately address the pleasure or sociality BDSM practitioners the...