British Sociological Association

Sociology of Religion Study Group

Hardback
November 1996
240 pages

216mm x 138mm
ISBN:0333630092
£57.50.

Description:
This topical collection of eleven commissioned essays by well-established contributors from sociology, religious studies and theology, is one of the first treatments of the relationship between postmodernity and religion from a sociological perspective. The essays cover a diversity of interests, but treat postmodernity in terms of its implications for the self, the New Age and theology, particularly Catholicism and Judaism. Two of the essays are original appraisals of two important French writers on religion: Jean-Luc Marion and Daniele Hervieu-Leger.

Contents:
Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Religion and the Postmodern: Old Problems, New Prospects; D.Lyon - Postmodernity, High Modernity and New Modernity: Three Concepts in Search of Religion; J.A.Beckford - Postmodernity, Architecture, Society and Religion: 'A Heap of Broken Images' or 'A Change of Heart'; M.York - Detraditionalisation of Religion and Self: the New Age and Postmodernity; P.Heelas - The Goddess/God within: the Construction of Self Identity through Alternative Health Practices; M.Birch - Religion and Modernity: the Work of Daniele Hervieu-Leger; G.Davie - Traditional, Modern or Postmodern? Recent Religious Developments among Jews in Israel; S.Sharot - The Self and Postmodernity; R.Ambler - Postmodernity and Culture: Sociological Wagers of the Self in Theology; K.Flanagan - Theology, Social Science and Postmodernity: Some Theological Considerations; L.Ayres - Between Postmodernism and Postmodernity: the Theology of Jean-Luc Marion; G.Ward - Notes and References - Bibliography - Index

First paperback edition 1999