Sociology of religion for generations X and Y
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| Language: | English |
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London ; Oakville, CT :
Equinox,
2009.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10386852 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Xers and Yers as cohorts of the post-1970s generation
- 1. Religious diversity and the politics of definition
- 2. Religion and popular culture
- 3. Religion and modernity : Marx, Durkheim and Weber
- 4. Religion, spirituality and the post-secularisation approach
- 5. Religion and postmodernity (Part A) : consumer religions
- 6. Religion and postmodernity (Part B) : hyper-reality and the Internet
- 7. Esotericism, its McDonaldisation, and its re-enchantment process
- 8. Monotheistic fundamentalism(s) as an outcome of consumer culture
- 9. Buddhism, its westernisation and the easternisation of the west
- 10. Christianity : churches and sects in a post-Christian world
- 11. The multiple-modernites of Islam?
- 12. New religious movements and the death of the new age
- 13. Witchcraft, the Internet, and consumerism
- Conclusion : What do sociologists of religion in academia do apart from teaching and marking? Their work as intellectuals.