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Religion and modern society : citizenship, secularisation and the state / Bryan S. Turner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 344 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781139076869
  • 1139076868
  • 9780511975660
  • 051197566X
  • 1139081411
  • 9781139081412
  • 9781139079143
  • 113907914X
  • 9781283110747
  • 1283110741
  • 9781139074612
  • 113907461X
  • 1107218500
  • 9781107218505
  • 1139062530
  • 9781139062534
  • 9786613110749
  • 6613110744
  • 1139068822
  • 9781139068826
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion and modern society.DDC classification:
  • 306.6 22
LOC classification:
  • BL60 .T85 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)366257

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-332) and index.

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.

Print version record.

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'.

English.