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  • An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

    Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by Inger Furseth, Pål Repstad ...
    What are religion and nonreligion? How do fundamentalism and religious radicalization emerge and grow? How do social class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and other factors affect religious beliefs, practices, and organizations? Is religion a fundamental driving force or do political leaders use religion for their own purposes? In exploring these pertinent questions, An Introduction to the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • God After the Church Lost Control

    Sociological Analysis and Critical-Constructive Theology

    by Jan-Olav Henriksen, Pal Repstad ...
    Series series Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
    This book combines insights from sociology of religion and theology to consider the fundamental changes that have taken place in how people think about God in contemporary Western society. It can be said that God has become irrelevant for many people, often as a result of well-grounded ethical critique of churches. Here the authors argue for the necessity of rethinking God-talk in a pluralist and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Modern Sociologists on Society and Religion

    by Inger Furseth, Pål Repstad ...
    Modern Sociologists on Society and Religion provides an introduction to some of the most influential figures in contemporary social theory with an emphasis on their analyses of society and religion. The figures profiled include Erving Goffman, Zygmunt Bauman, Michel Foucault, Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann, Jürgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, Arlie Hochschild, Richard Sennett, and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Religion and Welfare in Europe

    Gendered and Minority Perspectives

    by Grace Davie, Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon, Anne Birgitta Pessi, Effie Fokas, Annalisa Frisina, Pia Karlsson Minganti, Annette Leis-Peters, Lina Molokotos-Liederman, Margarita Markoviti, Zrinkscak Sinisa0, Marjukka Laiho1, Olav Helge Angell2, Pal Repstad3, Anders Backstrom4 ...
    Using welfare as a prism, Religion and Welfare in Europe explores regional conceptions and variations in welfare and religion across Europe.Methodological approaches to research and practice draw thematic comparisons on these issues using case studies focused on gendered and minority perspectives as they relate to the varied provision of social welfare in selected European countries.Contributors ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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  • The Sociology of Religion

    A Critical Agenda

    by Grace Davie ...
    Why is religion still important? Can we be fully modern and fully religious?In this new edition, Davie follows up her discussion of the meaning of religion in modern society and considers how best to research and understand this relationship. Exploring the rapid movements within the sociology of religion today, this revised and updated book:• Describes the origins of the sociology of religion• ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • An Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture

    by Stephen Fay, Liam Haydon ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Homi K. Bhabha’s 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters between the western colonial powers and the nations across the globe that they colonized. Colonization was not just an economic, military or political ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • The Post-Secular in Question

    Religion in Contemporary Society

    Edited by David Kyuman Kim, Philip Gorski, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, John Torpey ...
    Series Book 7 - Social Science Research Council
    The Post-Secular in Question considers whether there has in fact been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in recent decades. This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today’s world. Foregrounding the most urgent and compelling questions ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures

    Selected Essays

    by Abena Dadze-Arthur ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Clifford Geertz has been called ‘the most original anthropologist of his generation’ – and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and approaches of anthropological interpretation that he outlined in The Interpretation of Cultures.The centrality of interpretative skills to anthropology is uncontested: in a subject that is all about understanding mankind, and ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Social Theory and Religion

    by James A. Beckford ...
    Many aspects of religion are puzzling these days. This 2003 book looks at ways of improving our understanding of religious change by strengthening the links between social theory and the social scientific study of religion. It clarifies the social processes involved in constructing religion and non-religion in public and private life. Taking illustrations of the importance of these boundaries from ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Making Sense of God

    Finding God in the Modern World

    by Timothy Keller ...
    We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives?In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Rethinking Secularism

    Edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jonathan VanAntwerpen ...
    This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The volume will introduce readers to some of the most compelling new conceptual and theoretical understandings of secularism and the secular, while also examining socio-political ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • A Public Faith

    How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good

    by Miroslav Volf ...
    Covering such timely issues as witness in a multifaith society and political engagement in a pluralistic world, this compelling book highlights things Christians can do to serve the common good. Now in paperback.Praise for the cloth editionNamed one of the "Top 100 Books" and one of the "Top 10 Religion Books" of 2011 by Publishers Weekly"Accessible, wise guidance for people of all faiths."- ... Read more

    $17.29 USD