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“The editor has shown clearly the new dimensions in sociology of religion which the classical schools neglected as personal and private concerns and which do not fit into the positivistic approach to the study of religion. This book introduces new pardigms in the study of sociology of religion to be developed in the context of new religious movements…. This book is a valuable addition to the fields of sociology of religion and new social movements.” –Economic and Political Weekly From the evangelical and charismatic Christianity to the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, society today is witnessing an explosion of religious activity and revival. Yet, since the 1960s, sociologists have been proclaiming that religion has been in its death throes. Can such dynamic religious forces be at work if religion is dying? What is happening? And what do we expect to happen to religion in the coming decades? In A Future for Religion?, a leading team of scholars responds to these questions and offers a glimpse of where religion is heading. In their analyses, the authors explore several areas traditionally excluded from sociology of religion texts: religious experience, emotional renewal, religion and the body, comparative analyses, the links between religion and politics, social movements, and immigration. Each chapter summarizes a particular direction, provides data from current research, and offers an agenda for future research. Written in an accessible, inviting style, A Future for Religion? is ideally suited to courses in the sociology of religion. “This is a useful and sometimes very interesting handbook…. It combines theory and practical sense in good measure.” –Seminar
Present-Day Emotional Renewals: The End of Secularization or the End of Religion?
Present-Day Emotional Renewals: The End of Secularization or the End of Religion?
The issue of the status and the future prospects of religion in modern society has dogged sociological research since the early days of the discipline. For many years, the main idea put forward was that the social and cultural repression of religion in modern society ran parallel with the rise of Man's affirmation of his creative autonomy and of his power over nature. This classic approach to the process of secularization was coextensive with a theory of modernity that assumed that the historical development of rationalization and the emergence of personal autonomy were two aspects of a single movement—a movement culminating in ...
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