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The Salt of the Earth : Religious Resilience in a Secular Age.
"This is a sparkling collection of essays by one of Britain's best-known and acute commentators of the church scene and of contemporary religious life. Martyn Percy explores new liberalism, the churches and human rights in the European Union, football and religion, pilgrimage, demonology,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2016.
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| Colección: | Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction; Salt, Earth and Resilience; After Niebuhr; The Methodological Horizon; PART ONE: CHURCH AND CULTURE; Chapter 1 Resistance and Accommodation: Theology and Contemporary Culture; The Cultural Web: A Brief Tour; Strategies of Resistance; Models of Accommodation; Theology for and against Culture: Modelling Integrated Resilience; Chapter 2 A Knowledge of Angles: How Spiritual Are the English?; The English Spirit?; An Unfinished Symphony? Some Sonatas of Secularization Theory.
- Secularization: More CaveatsChapter 3 Cultural History: The Revision of Secularization Theories; Sketching the Antithesis; Back to the Future? Revisiting the English Church; Secularization in the Church; Chapter 4 Church-State Relations in Britain: Transforming Culture; Clarity in Complex Cultures: The Principle of Theological Refraction; Praxis and Pluralism; 'High' and 'Low' Establishment; Political Pragmatism; Civic Religion in a Civil Society; Chapter 5 A Clash of Cultures: Church Autonomy and Human Rights; The Church and the Human Rights Act: An Interrogative Discussion.
- Conflating Secular and Sacred Cultures: Paradigms of Civil ReligionCommonweal in Uncommon Cultures; PART TWO: CHRISTIANITY AND POPULAR CULTURE; Chapter 6 The Church in the Market-Place: Advertising, Media and Religion; Advertising Christianity: An Overview; Peter Berger and the Theological Construction of Reality; Antithesis: Advertising as Religion; The Speechless Word: Ideologies in Religious Advertising; Postscript; Chapter 7 Shopping for God: Production, Consumption and Globalization; The Consumer's Choice? Assessing Alpha; Modernity's Spiritual Market-Place?
- Chapter 8 Leisure, Ecstasy and Identity: Football and Contemporary ReligionSomething for the Weekend?; The Final Whistle?; Chapter 9 From Eternity to Here: Sin, Censorship and Society; Adultery: Preliminary Remarks; Policing Promiscuity; Nudity, Censorship and Popular Music; Chapter 10 Sympathy for the Devil: On Discerning the Demonic; The Demonic and the Devil: Two Concepts with a Career; Discerning the Demonic; PART THREE: MINISTRY AND MISSION IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE; Chapter 11 Pilgrimage and Place: The Journey Within; Locating the 'Toronto Blessing'; The 'Toronto Blessing' Observed.
- The Social Context of Urban RevivalismThe Inward Journey: A Reductive Reading; The Morphology of Protestant-Charismatic Pilgrimage: Disassociation and the Journey Within; Chapter 12 Religious Power: People, Politics and Prophecy; Religious Power and Mobilization: An Overview; Theories of Power and Mobilization; Power, Prophecy and Hope; Chapter 13 Care-Taking and Health in Contemporary Culture: Exploring the Vocational; Spiritual Care; The Vocational Life; Making Space for Death; Postscript; Chapter 14 The Gift of Authority: Of Ministry, Morals and Money.