Mapping Religion and Spirituality in a Postsecular World (Religion and the Social Order, 22) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 900423022X ISBN 13: 9789004230224

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2012

Synopsis

This volume offers eleven case studies of contemporary movements from around the world where religious, secular and spiritual dynamics interplay in the postmodern condition of the 21st century, as traditional and contemporary sources are combined in new and dynamic ways.

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About the Author

Giuseppe Giordan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Padua. From 2007 he has served as Secretary of the Sociology of Religion Section of the Italian Sociological Association, and from 2009 as General Secretary of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR/SISR). With Enzo Pace and Luigi Berzano he edits the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, also published by Brill.

Enzo Pace, Professor of Sociology and Sociology of Religion at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Padua, is the Director of the Department of Sociology and of the Interdepartmental Center on Intercultural Studies of the University of Padua. He is also Past-President of the International Society for the Sociology (ISSR/SISR) and a Directeur d'Études at ÉHÉSS in Paris.

Contributors include: Anhony J. Blasi, Yong Chen, Monica Chilese, Emanuela Contiero, Elisabetta di Giovanni, Anat Feldman, Isabella Jonveaux, Ruth Illman, Liselotte Frisk, Fatma Sundal, and Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 900423022X
• ISBN 13: 9789004230224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 203
• Editor: Giordan Giuseppe, Pace Enzo