Religion and Advanced Industrial Society

ISBN-13: 9780367024659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 198 str.

James a. Beckford

Opis

This book, first published in 1989, demonstrates that sociologists have much to gain from a strengthening of the connections between general theories about the changing character of modern western societies and specific studies of religion.

Spis treści

1. The Isolation of Religion  2. Religion in Classical Models of Industrial Society  3. Fallow Period and Second Harvest  4. Systems, Symbols, Societalization, Secularization, Subjectivity  5. Differentiation and its Discontents  6. Ideology, New Social Movements and Spirituality

O autorze

James A. Beckford