Religion and modern society
Subtitle: citizenship, secularisation and the state
By: Bryan S. Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521858649; 9780521675321
Subjects: Globalization; Religion and state; Secularism; Religion and sociology; Religious aspects
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the state of the sociology of religion; Part I. Theoretical Frameworks: The Problem of Religion in Sociology: 1. Religion, religions and the body; 2. Emile Durkheim and the classification of religion; 3. Max Weber and comparative religion; 4. Talcott Parsons and the expressive revolution; 5. Mary Douglas and modern primitives; 6. Pierre Bourdieu and religious practice; Part II. Religion, State and Post-Secularity: 7. The secularization thesis; 8. Legal pluralism, religion and multiculturalism; 9. Managing religions: liberal and authoritarian states; 10. Religious speech: on ineffable communication; 11. Spiritualities: the media, feminism and consumerism; 12. Religion, globalization and cosmopolitanism; 13. Civil religion, citizenship and the business cycle; 14. The globalization of piety.