Traditional Religion and Culture in a New Era

ISBN-13: 9781138517417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 229 str.

Opis

Where will postmodern culture lead us in the twenty-first century? Will it destroy traditional cultures together with the old, established religions that were its foundation? These questions and the new concerns they evoke are explored in this important collection of original essays

Spis treści

Part 1: Novel Views of Traditional Religion, Culture, and Values 1. A Look at the Past and the Future of Traditional Japanese Religion 2. Traditional Religion in Late Modernity 3. Religion, Identity, and Postmodernity: Globalization and the Fundamentalist Revival 4. Faith for the Future? Conservative Protestantism as a Social Movement for the Twenty-First Century 5. The Future of Religion: The Rescue of Religious Motives and Motivations through Their Inversion into Secular Discourse 6. A Buddhist Paradigm for a Sustainable Future 7. Human Values, Social Change and the Future, 8. The Future of Traditional Culture and Religion Part 2: Toward a New Awareness of Spirituality, Religion, and Culture 9. New Spirituality Culture and Religious Tradition 10. Women and Spirituality in the New Millennium 11. Culture, Globlization, and the Role of Women 12. Religion as a Fundamental Category of Culture

O autorze

Reimon Bachika is professor of the sociology of religion at Bukkyo University, Kyoto, and president of the Research Committee of Futures Studies (RC07) of the International Sociological Association. He is co-author of An Introduction into the Sociology of Religion (in Japanese, with M. Tsushima), and has written numerous articles both in Japanese and English on the sociology of religion and related problems of culture.