Religion and Everyday Life

Name: Religion and Everyday Life
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ISBN: 9780415351546

ISBN-10: 0415351545

ISBN-13: 9780415351546

Edition: 2005

Authors: Stephen Hunt

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This introductory text explores the historical and contemporary relevance of religion to social life, through an examination of practice and belief. Author Hunt reconsiders how theories and concepts are lived at the level of selfhood and cultural identity, through religious and spiritual belief. At the same time he looks at contemporary changes in religious life and how these are impacted by socialization, institutional belonging, and belief, and at the significance of class, gender, age and ethnicity. Individual chapters cover a range of issues, such as: religion, identity and community secularization and pluralism traditional Christianity: change and continuity globalization and the…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/23/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Stephen Hunt is the author of 'The Court of the Air'. He set up one of the first science fiction and fantasy websites, www.SFcrowsnest.com, in 1994. Today the site has 340,000 readers a month. Stephen Hunt is in his thirties and lives with his wife and children in Surrey.



Series Editor's Foreword


Preface


Introduction



Contemporary religion: changing definitions



Postmodernist perspectives: the yet but not yet



Rational choice theory and its discontents



The context of everyday religion



Demographic variables: continuity and change



From 'church' to 'choice': transformations in contemporary Christianity



Faiths of certainty: fundamentalism and the religions of ethnic minorities



The rise and fall of the New Religious Movements



The New Age, self-spiritualities and quasi-religions


Conclusion: the religious and the sacred in everyday life


Bibliography


Index