Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion

✍ Scribed by Kieran Flanagan, Peter C. Jupp (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 238
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This topical collection of eleven commissioned essays by well-established contributors from sociology, religious studies and theology, is one of the first treatments of the relationship between postmodernity and religion from a sociological perspective. The essays cover a diversity of interests, but treat postmodernity in terms of its implications for the self, the New Age and theology, particularly Catholicism and Judaism. Two of the essays are original appraisals of two important French writers on religion: Jean-Luc Marion and Daniele Hervieu-Leger.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Religion and the Postmodern: Old Problems, New Prospects....Pages 14-29
Postmodernity, High Modernity and New Modernity: Three Concepts in Search of Religion....Pages 30-47
Postmodernity, Architecture, Society and Religion: ‘A Heap of Broken Images’ or ‘A Change of Heart’....Pages 48-63
De-traditionalisation of Religion and Self: The New Age and Postmodernity....Pages 64-82
The Goddess/God Within: The Construction of Self-Identity through Alternative Health Practices....Pages 83-100
Religion and Modernity: The Work of Danièle Hervieu-Léger....Pages 101-117
Traditional, Modern or Postmodern? Recent Religious Developments among Jews in Israel....Pages 118-133
The Self and Postmodernity....Pages 134-151
Postmodernity and Culture: Sociological Wagers of the Self in Theology....Pages 152-173
Theology, Social Science and Postmodernity: Some Theological Considerations....Pages 174-189
Between Postmodernism and Postmodernity: The Theology of Jean-Luc Marion....Pages 190-205
Back Matter....Pages 206-224

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Education;Sociology of Education;Sociology of Culture;Philosophy of Religion;Religious Studies, general;Cultural Studies

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