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Essentiality of Work
Raising pressing questions about the essence of work and its place in contemporary society, this volume inspires new debates about the centrality of the work experience in modern life for those working as well as those who benefit from that work.
Embodying Irish Abortion Reform
Offering a unique perspective, this book explores the lived, embodied and affective experiences of reproductive rights activists living under, and mobilizing against, Ireland’s constitutional abortion ban. Through qualitative research and in-depth interviews with activists, the author exposes the subtle influence of the 8th Amendment on Irish women and their (reproductive) bodies, whether or not they have ever attempted to access a clandestine abortion. It explains how the everyday embodied practices, bodily labours and affective experiences of women and gestating people were shaped by the 8th amendment and through the need to ‘prepare’ for crisis pregnancies. In addition, it reveals the integral role of women’s bodies and emotions in changing the political and social landscape in Ireland, through the historical transformation of the country’s abortion laws.
(Un)Believing in Modern Society
This landmark study in the sociology of religion sheds new light on the question of what has happened to religion and spirituality since the 1960s in modern societies. Exposing several analytical weaknesses of today's sociology of religion, (Un)Believing in Modern Society presents a new theory of religious-secular competition and a new typology of ways of being religious/secular. The authors draw on a specific European society (Switzerland) as their test case, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to show how the theory can be applied. Identifying four ways of being religious/secular in a modern society: 'institutional', 'alternative', 'distanced' and 'secular' they show how and why these forms have emerged as a result of religious-secular competition and describe in what ways all four forms are adapted to the current, individualized society.
Spiritualizing the City
Urban spaces have always functioned as cradles and laboratories for religious movements and spiritualities. The urban forms a central and nourishing agent for the creation of new religious expressions, and continually negotiates new ways of being spiritual and establishing spiritual ideas and practices. This book explores the intense and complex interplay between the (post) modern city and new religious and spiritual movement, bringing the city and its annexes into the foreground of current research into religion. It develops a new, ethnography-based analysis of the ways in which the pluralist experience of the "urban" inscribes itself into various religious practices and vice versa: how do ...
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
The main goal of the second issue of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, devoted entirely to religion and politics, is precisely to question the sense of a reconstruction of the mutual and simultaneous relations between these two spheres of social life. What does this process mean and where is it taking us?
Religious Pluralism
This volume illustrates both theoretically and empirically the differences between religious diversity and religious pluralism. It highlights how the factual situation of cultural and religious diversity may lead to individual, social and political choices of organized and recognized pluralism. In the process, both individual and collective identities are redefined, incessantly moving along the continuum that ranges from exclusion to inclusion. The book starts by first detailing general issues related to religious pluralism. It makes the case for keeping the empirical, the normative, the regulatory and the interactive dimensions of religious pluralism analytically distinct while recognizing ...
Congregations in Europe
This volume describes and maps congregations of Christian confessions and denominations, as well as groups with Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, and various other spiritual faiths, in different European countries. Consisting of three parts, it presents concrete sociological studies addressing how established and not established, old and new congregations of various faiths create a new kind of religious diversity at the country level; how religious congregations are challenged and thrive in large cities; and how religious congregations change in the 21st century. The book enlightens by its descriptive analysis and the theoretical questions it raises concerning the religious transformations ha...
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 2 (2011)
Over the past thirty years, religion has increasingly played a relevant role, both on a national level and in international affairs. The attempt made by politicians to reframe the policy of social cohesion in a neo-nationalist light (one land, one language, one religion = one political community), demising any kind of multiculturalism, facilitating instead a return to assimilation shaped by fear of the other (culture, religion, language, and so on), is very often associated with a restoration of the primacy of religious discourse in the public sphere. It is not just a return of religion in the public sphere, but the exploitation of religion by politics to reconstruct a social cohesion in the absence of ideological resources.
"O dass ich tausend Zungen hätte ..."
Moglichkeiten und Grenzen christlicher Pluralitat: Dem Thema, das in Zurich die Kirchensynode dem Kirchenrat stellte, widmet sich der neue denkMal-Band. Das Buch gliedert sich in drei Teile. Der erste gilt der praktischen Gemeindearbeit: Ein Sigrist, eine Diakonin, eine Kantorin, eine Prasidentin, ein Pfarrer und ein Dekan beurteilen die kirchenratliche Antwort. Der zweite gehort der grossraumigen Verantwortung: Ein Religionenbeobachter, ein Padagoge, eine Soziologin, eine Technikerin, ein Publizist und ein Regierungsrat diskutieren das Papier. Der dritte wendet sich der theologischen Gesamtverantwortung zu: Ein Professor fur Praktische Theologie nennt Aussichten und Abgrunde im Umgang mit Pluralitat und der Kirchenratsprasident blickt auf seine Jahre im kirchenleitenden Amt zuruck.
Ekklesiologie der Volkskirche
Die Mitgliederzahlen der Kirchen gehen zurück, Kirchgemeinden fusionieren, Kirchgebäude werden umgenutzt, die Verhältnisse von Kirche und Staat neu austariert. Ist die Rede von der Volkskirche im Horizont solcher Transformationsprozesse überhaupt noch sinnvoll? Der Begriff Volkskirche dient nicht nur zur Beschreibung und Orientierung kirchlicher Praxis, sondern besitzt auch Potenziale für ein zukunftsfähiges theologisches Kirchenverständnis. Genau dies zeigen die Autorinnen und Autoren auf, indem sie Volkskirche empirisch erforschen, ihre Geschichte, praktisch-theologische Modelle und Theologien der Volkskirche untersuchen und Thesen zu einer Ekklesiologie der Volkskirche entwickeln.
