A Sociology of Seeking: Portents of Belief

ISBN-13: 9781032322803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 368 str.

UK) Flanagan Kieran (University of Bristol

Opis

This book explores the remains of Christianity that lurk as portents in a progressively de-Christianised society, examining both the place of sociology in Christian theology and the failure of theology to connect to its surrounding culture, asking how the two disciplines might meld profitably together.

Spis treści

Prologue  1. Prophets and oracles: Zeitgeist and a sociology of indeterminacy  2. Change and decay: Missing something missing  3. Religion: A concept of no fixed abode  4. Images and icons: The ocular dilemmas of the state  5. The finger: A portent of sociological deliverance  Epilogue

O autorze

Kieran Flanagan is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of: Sociological Noir: Irruptions and the Darkness of Modernity (2017); Sociology in Theology: Reflexivity and Belief (2007); Seen and Unseen: Visual Culture, Sociology and Theology (2004); The Enchantment of Sociology: A Study of Theology and Culture (1996); Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentations of the Holy (1991); and co-editor with Peter C. Jupp of: Sociology of Spirituality (2007); Virtue Ethics and Sociology: Issues of Modernity and Religion (2001); and Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996).