The Changing Face of Religion (SAGE Studies in International Sociology) - Hardcover

Críticas

`Beckford and Luckmann have collected nine intriguing, richly detailed papers, whose importance is well worth the brief time it takes for their study' - Sociological Analysis

`a most useful introduction to, survey and discussion of, the variety of approaches to secularisation and the position of religion in the modern world. The book deserves a central place...' - Reviewing Sociology

Reseña del editor

This innovative book, newly available in paper, examines the global significance of religion, and the different and complex ways in which the role of religion has changed - and is changing - in different societies. Has a process of separating religion from politics been reversed by recent developments? To what extent do the central values and concepts of traditional religion remain embedded in a society in which substantial numbers no longer formally follow the faith? How has the balance of religious influence between mainline denominations and `cults' changed, and what is the significance of such change?