Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion - Hardcover

Kieran Flanagan; Peter C. Jupp; Eds.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312161093 ISBN 13: 9780312161095

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1996

Synopsis

This topical collection of eleven commissioned essays assesses the link between postmodernity and religion from a sociological perspective. It breaks new ground in an increasingly lively debate. The implications of postmodernity and its domain qualities are treated in terms of the self, New Age, Catholicism and Judaism. Critical attention is given to Giddens and his treatment of late modernity. Sociological perspectives on postmodernity are linked to debates on the nature of belief in the sociology of religion and theology. Two of the essays provide critical appreciations of two largely untranslated French writers on post-modernity, Jean-Luc Marion and Daniele Hervieu-Leger. A number of the writers refer to one another's papers in this critical debate in a way that should stimulate further responses. The increasing importance of religion in the context of culture and sociological theory is recognised in this indispensable collection of essays.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0312161093
• ISBN 13: 9780312161095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224