Post-Secular Society - Softcover

-Religion is more protean and malleable than conceived by the secularization hypothesis, as demonstrated in this accessible collection of essays from mostly Scandinavian scholars associated with Abo Akademi University, Finland. Religion's dynamic character has led to new configurations of religiousness and societies' relations with religion that, following Habermas, the authors refer to as postsecular.... Each essay stands on its own, presenting its methodological focus and summarizing how such a focus deepens the understanding of religion.... Recommended.- --S. Young, Choice "Religion is more protean and malleable than conceived by the secularization hypothesis, as demonstrated in this accessible collection of essays from mostly Scandinavian scholars associated with Abo Akademi University, Finland. Religion's dynamic character has led to new configurations of religiousness and societies' relations with religion that, following Habermas, the authors refer to as postsecular.... Each essay stands on its own, presenting its methodological focus and summarizing how such a focus deepens the understanding of religion.... Recommended." --S. Young, Choice "Religion is more protean and malleable than conceived by the secularization hypothesis, as demonstrated in this accessible collection of essays from mostly Scandinavian scholars associated with Abo Akademi University, Finland. Religion's dynamic character has led to new configurations of religiousness and societies' relations with religion that, following Habermas, the authors refer to as postsecular.... Each essay stands on its own, presenting its methodological focus and summarizing how such a focus deepens the understanding of religion.... Recommended." --S. Young, Choice