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  • Sociology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steve Bruce ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society's role in shaping the individual, and demonstrates the value of sociology for understanding the modern world. In this new edition Steve Bruce discusses ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Secularization

    In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory

    by Steve Bruce ...
    The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety of recent attempts at rebuttal and refutation. Using the best available ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Researching Religion

    Why We Need Social Science

    by Steve Bruce ...
    Researching Religion: Why We Need Social Science establishes the relevance of social science for the study of religion and promotes a particular kind of social science. Even if we confine ourselves to academic disciplines, there are very many ways of viewing religion. Certain kinds of questions about religion can only be answered by the methods and approaches of social science: if one is ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Sexual Abuse in Religion

    by Marta Trzebiatowska, Steve Bruce ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the complex and troubling relationship between religion and sexual abuse through a sociological lens. Drawing on hundreds of examples spanning two centuries, it offers a comparative analysis of abuse in religious versus secular contexts and investigates systematic differences across various religions. From motives and opportunities to the organisational constraints that shield ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • British Gods

    Religion in Modern Britain

    by Steve Bruce ...
    The big picture is well-known: over the last century, religion in Britain has lost power, popularity, and plausibility. Here, Steve Bruce charts the quantifiable changes in religious interest and observance over the last fifty years by returning to a number of towns and villages that were the subject of detailed community studies in the 1950s and 1960s, to see how the status and nature of religion ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology

    by Steven Yearley, Steve Bruce ...
    "Undoubtedly the most accessible, readable and downright interesting - even amusing - dictionary of its type. In being all of those things - and more - the dictionary does not sacrifice on quality. There are many well-chosen entries and they are quite informative. A useful addition to any scholar′s library while at the same time being an excellent resource for both graduate and undergraduate ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The Rapture of Politics

    Christian Right as the United States Approaches the Year 2000

    by Steve Bruce ...
    Theologically conservative Protestants have entered the political arena with an agenda that is at once political and religious. Assessing the current impact of this New Christian Right (NCR) on American politics, the contributors to this new book present provocative and diverse perspectives on a phenomenon that has, despite its pervasiveness in American culture, been too little examined. While ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Religion in Secular Society

    Fifty Years On

    by Bryan R. Wilson ...
    Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work. It is one of the clearest articulations of the secularization thesis: the claim that modernizations brings with it fundamental changes in the nature and status of religion. For Wilson, secularization refers to the fact that religion has lost influence at the societal, the institutional, and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Pray TV

    Televangelism in America

    by Steve Bruce ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion
    In this book, first published in 1990, the significance of televangelism in America is examined in detail. This well-informed, measured analysis includes discussion of the place of televangelism in the history of American Protestantism; the styles of leading TV preachers and the televangelical star system; the relation of televangelism to conservatism and politics. It also answers the questions of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Scottish Gods

    Religion in Modern Scotland 1900-2012

    by Steve Bruce ...

    $27.99 USD

  • Secular Beats Spiritual

    The Westernization of the Easternization of the West

    by Steve Bruce ...
    The decline of the Christian churches in the West is undeniable but commentators differ in their understanding of what this represents. For some it shows a decline in interest in religion as such; for others, religion has not declined, it has only changed its shape. Possible candidates for Christianity's replacement are the new religious movements of the late 1960s and what is variously called New ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • A House Divided

    Protestantism, Schism and Secularization

    by Steve Bruce ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion
    The main concern of this study, first published in 1990, is the part played by Protestantism in the complex of social processes of ‘secularization’. The book deals with the way in which Protestant schism and dissent paved the way for the rise of religious pluralism and toleration; and it also looks at the fragility of the two major responses to religious pluralism – the accommodation of liberal ... Read more

    $48.99 USD