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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the state of the sociology of religion
- 1. Religion, religions and the body
- 2. Emile Durkheim and the classification of religion
- 3. Max Weber and comparative religion
- 4. Talcott Parsons and the expressive revolution
- 5. Mary Douglas and modern primitives
- 6. Pierre Bourdieu and religious practice
- 7. The secularization thesis
- 8. Legal pluralism, religion and multiculturalism
- 9. Managing religions: liberal and authoritarian states
- 10. Religious speech: on ineffable communication
- 11. Spiritualities: the media, feminism and consumerism
- 12. Religion, globalization and cosmopolitanism
- 13. Civil religion, citizenship and the business cycle
- 14. The globalization of piety.