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Post-Secular Society
Post-Secular Society argues for several characteristics of the secular: the experience of living in a secular age and the experience of living without religion as a normal condition. Religion in the West is often seen as marked by both innovation and disarray. In spite of differing approaches and perspectives of secularization, rational choice and de-secularization, many scholars agree that the West is experiencing a general "resurgence" of religion across most Western societies. Post-Secular Society discusses the changes in religion related to globalization and New Age forms of popular religion. The contributors review religion that is rooted in the globalized political economy and the relationship of post-secularism to popular consumer culture. Also reviewed is innovative discourse as a religious belief system, theories of the post-secular, religious, and spiritual well-being, and healing practices in Finland and environmentalism. This paperback edition includes a new preface by Peter Nynas.
Death, Life and Laughter
11 Where does Islamic Studies fit? -- 12 From Jevons to Collini (via Douglas Davies): reflections on higher education and religious identity -- 13 A break from prose: defying the boundaries of genre -- 14 An inquisitive presence: thinking with Douglas Davies on the study of religion -- Epilogue: a response -- Index
Funerary Practices in the Netherlands
This book explores the funerary culture in the Netherlands through a mixture of photographs, figures and case studies. The nine chapters demonstrate the process of funeralising and ideas about death in the Netherlands, providing an overview of contemporary funerary practices and their changes over time.
A Sociology of Religious Emotion
Thoughtfully illustrated with photographic plates that capture the global range of religions and cultures discussed. --Book Jacket.
Doing Multidisciplinary Research on Religion
Religion is increasingly visible in the contemporary world as a complex phenomenon – requiring multidisciplinary research to do justice to the complexity. Multidisciplinary research is however, though lauded by many, notoriously difficult to bring to fruition. This volume takes on the challenge to bridge the gap. Contributions formulate the challenges many have faced, but few yet analysed and put into the hands of researchers concrete tools with which to set about designing and executing multidisciplinary research on religions, beliefs and religious behaviour. In an era where research funding increasingly expects interdisciplinary collaboration it provides guidance on constructive pathways and pitfalls to avoid. Contributors are: Riho Altnurme, Anders Bäckström, Lori G. Beaman, Karin Borevi, Leon van den Broeke, Valerie DeMarinis, Victoria Enkvist, Jonny Långstedt, Annette Leis-Peters, Anna-Sara Lind, Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon, Cecilia Nahnfeldt, Per-Erik Nilsson, Peter Nynäs, Margit Warburg, and Anne-Laure Zwilling.
Det gudlösa folket : de postkristna svenskarna och religionen
Är svenskarna världens mest sekulariserade folk? Varför tycker många att det är lite pinsamt att vara kristen? Varför upplevs buddhismen som sympatisk medan islam känns hotfull och främmande? I Det gudlösa folket följer David Thurfjell uppkomsten och utvecklingen av de idéer om religion som vi idag tar för givna, från 1500-talets reformation via pietismen, upplysningen, teosofin och kolonialismen till 2000-talets religionsdebatter. Det blir till en berättelse om vilka vi - de sekulära svenskarna - är, varför vi tänker som vi gör och om hur vår internationellt sett unika religionssituation har uppkommit. David Thurfjell är religionshistoriker och professor i religionsvetenskap vid Södertörns högskola.
Bulletin bibliographique
Ce bulletin bibliographique réunit plus d'une centaine de recensions d'ouvrages pour l'année 2011. Il fait appel aux principales disciplines de connaissance des faits religieux, telles que la sociologie, l'histoire, l'ethnologie ou la philosophie. Les multiples religions du monde sont appréhendées dans divers moments et contextes en même temps que les systèmes d'idées et d'usages avec lesquelles elles composent ou s'affrontent dans l'espace public. Outre les comptes rendus, plusieurs notes critiques reviennent sur la production du savoir : le sens des mots-clés d'hier et d'aujourd'hui dans les dictionnaires savants sur les phénomènes religieux ; les anthropologues et la religion en France et dans le monde ; l'histoire et la sociologie des mouvements messianiques et millénaristes ; les raisons de l'effervescence pentecôtiste au Nigeria ; les enjeux de l'engagement congréganiste dans l'éducation italienne du XIXe siècle.
Spiritualité et pouvoir
Les pratiques religieuses contemporaines, marquées à la fois par l’individualisation, le déclin de l’institution et l’essor de nouvelles « spiritualités », peuvent sembler à première vue évacuer les enjeux de pouvoir et d’autorité, au profit de sociabilités moins contraignantes centrées sur l’émancipation personnelle. En s’appuyant sur des enquêtes ethnographiques dans les milieux du « New Age » mais aussi dans le contexte du méthodisme londonien, Matthew Wood invite à réexaminer cette question du pouvoir afin de réinscrire pleinement le fait religieux dans son contexte social. Il nous montre que si les formes de l’autorité évoluent, celle-ci ne disparaît pas pour autant. Un ensemble de rapports sociaux de pouvoir structurent toujours la vie religieuse, dont la sociologie doit rendre compte afin d’éclairer les transformations en cours au sein des sociétés néolibérales. Ces réflexions dessinent les contours d’une sociologie des religions plus ouverte sur les débats théoriques qui traversent aujourd’hui les sciences sociales, afin de repenser les relations entre religion, classes sociales, ethnicité et sécularisation.
Postgrowth and Wellbeing
This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era. It highlights the close links between economic growth, market capitalism, and the welfare state demonstrating that, in many ways, wellbeing outcomes currently depend on the growth paradigm. Here the authors argue that notions of basic human needs deserve greater emphasis in debates on postgrowth because they are more compatible with limits to growth. Drawing on theories of social practices, the book explores structural barriers to transitions to a postgrowth society, and ends with suggestions for policies and institutions that could support wellbeing in the context of postgrowth. This thought-provoking work makes a valuable contribution to debates surrounding climate change, sustainability, welfare states and inequality and will appeal to students and scholars of social policy, sociology, political science, economics, political ecology and human geography.
Archaeological Human Remains
This volume addresses the directions that studies of archaeological human remains have taken in a number of different countries, where attitudes range from widespread support to prohibition. Overlooked in many previous publications, this diversity in attitudes is examined through a variety of lenses, including academic origins, national identities, supporting institutions, archaeological context and globalization. The volume situates this diversity of attitudes by examining past and current tendencies in studies of archaeologically-retrieved human remains across a range of geopolitical settings. In a context where methodological approaches have been increasingly standardized in recent decades, the volume poses the question if this standardization has led to a convergence in approaches to archaeological human remains or if significant differences remain between practitioners in different countries. The volume also explores the future trajectories of the study of skeletal remains in the different jurisdictions under scrutiny.
