Religion and Everyday Life
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Religion and Everyday Life

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Religion and Everyday Life

About this book

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 the same time he looks at contemporary changes in religious life and how these are impacted by socialization, institutional belonging, and belief, and at the significance of class, gender, age and ethnicity. Individual chapters cover a range of issues, such as:

  • religion, identity and community
  • secularization and pluralism
  • traditional Christianity: change and continuity
  • globalization and the global context
  • religion and ethnicity.

The text challenges much current sociological thought and deals with contemporary Christianity, a range of world faiths and new and developing expressions of religion and spirituality. With tables and diagrams to illustrate key points and trends, it provides an accessible and captivating introduction to the sociology of religion.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781134265473

Table of contents

  1. Religion and Everyday Life
  2. The New Sociology
  3. Full Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Series Editor’s Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Contemporary religion: changing definitions
  10. 2 Postmodernist perspectives: the yet but not yet
  11. 3 Rational choice theory and its discontents
  12. 4 The context of everyday religion
  13. 5 Demographic variables: continuity and change
  14. 6 From ‘church’ to ‘choice’: transformations in contemporary Christianity
  15. 7 Faiths of certainty: fundamentalism and the religions of ethnic minorities
  16. 8 The rise and fall of the New Religious Movements
  17. 9 The New Age, self-spiritualities and quasi-religions
  18. Conclusion
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index