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Religion and modern society : citizenship, secularisation and the state /
Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of mul...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicultural, multi-faith societies and legal pluralism in terms of citizenship and the state, with special emphasis on the problems of defining religion and the sacred in the secularisation debate. He explores a range of issues central to current debates: the secularisation thesis itself, the communications revolution, the rise of youth spirituality, feminism, piety and religious revival. Religion and Modern Society contributes to political and ethical controversies through discussions of cosmopolitanism, religion and globalisation. It concludes with a pessimistic analysis of the erosion of the social in modern society and the inability of new religions to provide 'social repair'. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 344 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-332) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139076869 1139076868 9780511975660 051197566X 1139081411 9781139081412 9781139079143 113907914X 9781283110747 1283110741 9781139074612 113907461X 1107218500 9781107218505 1139062530 9781139062534 9786613110749 6613110744 1139068822 9781139068826 |