Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Sociology of Religion

The Western World is becoming atheist. In the space of three generations churchgoing and religious belief have become alien to millions. We are in the midst of one of humankind's great cultural changes. How has this happened?

Becoming Atheist explores how people of the sixties' generation have come to live their lives as if there is no God. It tells the life narratives of those from Britain, Western Europe, the United States and Canada who came from Christian, Jewish and other backgrounds to be without faith. Based on interviews with 85 people born in 18 countries, Callum...

Ours are times when religion is systematically being used: unconsciously by some and deliberately by others, in the service of politics and personal gain, rather then spirituality. However, perceptive and honest minds among all religious communities view different religions as diverse "languages of the spirit," each valid and nourishing in its own way. An impartial study of different religions shows the underlying unity in the diversity of religions. All religions are attempts to satisfy the human sense of wonder and awe at the inscrutable mystery of the universe. This common function...

La sociEtE moderne a une perception nouvelle de la religion. Les indicateurs manifestes sont, entre autres, le changement dans les sphEres Economiques, sociales et politiques; le dEclin de la religion avec l'Emancipation personnelle, collective et du monde vis-A-vis de Dieu en raison de la montEe de rationalitE technico-scientifique; et la perte par l'Eglise de son autoritE dans les institutions et dans la vie des individus. Ceci dEnote le glissement d'un Etat religieux A l'Etat sEculier, la sEparation de l'Eglise d'avec l'Etat, la diffErentiation fonctionnelle et la concentration de...

From recent sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, to arguments about faith schools and religious indoctrination, this volume considers the interconnection between the actual lives of children and the position of children as placeholders for the future. Childhood has often been a particular site of struggle for negotiating the location of religion in public and everyday social life, and children's involvement and non-involvement in religion raises strong feelings because they represent the future of religious and secular communities, even of society itself. The Bloomsbury...

Amongst books on religion and the internet, this collection is distinctive in addressing the interaction between social and mass media in the construction of contemporary religion and spirituality, and public understandings of them. Topics discussed include the implications of social media for religious authority, the implications of mediatisation for community relations, and the challenges of social media for traditional religious communities.