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The Many Altars of Modernity : Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age / Peter L. Berger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (147 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781614517504
  • 9781614519676
  • 9781614516477
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Pluralist Phenomenon -- Chapter 2: Pluralism and Individual Faith -- Chapter 3: Pluralism and Religious Institutions -- Chapter 4: The Secular Discourse -- Chapter 5: Religion and Multiple Modernities -- Chapter 6: The Political Management of Pluralism -- Response by Nancy T. Ammerman: Modern Altars in Everyday Life -- Response by Detlef Pollack: Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociology of Religion? -- Response by Fenggang Yang: Agency-Driven Secularization and Chinese Experiments in Multiple Modernities -- Index
Summary: This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L. Berger, an internationally renowned sociologist of religion. Secularization theory-which saw modernity as leading to a decline of religion-has been empirically falsified. It should be replaced by a nuanced theory of pluralism. In this new book, Berger outlines the possible foundations for such a theory, addressing a wide range of issues spanning individual faith, interreligious societies, and the political order. He proposes a conversation around a new paradigm for religion and pluralism in an age of multiple modernities. The book also includes responses from three eminent scholars of religion: Nancy Ammerman, Detlef Pollack, and Fenggang Yang.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Pluralist Phenomenon -- Chapter 2: Pluralism and Individual Faith -- Chapter 3: Pluralism and Religious Institutions -- Chapter 4: The Secular Discourse -- Chapter 5: Religion and Multiple Modernities -- Chapter 6: The Political Management of Pluralism -- Response by Nancy T. Ammerman: Modern Altars in Everyday Life -- Response by Detlef Pollack: Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociology of Religion? -- Response by Fenggang Yang: Agency-Driven Secularization and Chinese Experiments in Multiple Modernities -- Index

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This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L. Berger, an internationally renowned sociologist of religion. Secularization theory-which saw modernity as leading to a decline of religion-has been empirically falsified. It should be replaced by a nuanced theory of pluralism. In this new book, Berger outlines the possible foundations for such a theory, addressing a wide range of issues spanning individual faith, interreligious societies, and the political order. He proposes a conversation around a new paradigm for religion and pluralism in an age of multiple modernities. The book also includes responses from three eminent scholars of religion: Nancy Ammerman, Detlef Pollack, and Fenggang Yang.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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