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Religion and Everyday Life.
This introductory text explores the historical and contemporary relevance of religion to social life, through an examination of practice and belief. Author Hunt reconsiders how theories and concepts are lived at the level of selfhood and cultural identity, through religious and spiritual belief. At...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | New sociology series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; PREFACE; Introduction; 1 Contemporary religion: changing definitions; 2 Postmodernist perspectives: the yet but not yet; 3 Rational choice theory and its discontents; 4 The context of everyday religion; 5 Demographic variables: continuity and change; 6 From 'church' to 'choice': transformations in contemporary Christianity; 7 Faiths of certainty: fundamentalism and the religions of ethnic minorities; 8 The rise and fall of the New Religious Movements; 9 The New Age, self-spiritualities and quasi-religions.
- Conclusion: the religious and the sacred in everyday lifeBIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.