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Post-Secular Society argues for several characteristics of the secular: the experience of living in a secular age and the experience of living without religion as a normal condition. Religion in the West is often seen as marked by both innovation and disarray. In spite of differing approaches and perspectives of secularization, rational choice and de-secularization, many scholars agree that the West is experiencing a general "resurgence" of religion across most Western societies. Post-Secular Society discusses the changes in religion related to globalization and New Age forms of popular religion. The contributors review religion that is rooted in the globalized political economy and the relationship of post-secularism to popular consumer culture. Also reviewed is innovative discourse as a religious belief system, theories of the post-secular, religious, and spiritual well-being, and healing practices in Finland and environmentalism. This paperback edition includes a new preface by Peter Nynas.

Table of Contents:
1. Trajectories of Post-Secular Complexity: An Introduction, 2. Are We Still Secular? Explorations on the Secular and the Post-Secular, 3. Characteristics of Contemporary Religious Change: Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Interpretative Tendencies, 4. The Global Political Economy, Welfare State Reforms, and the Governance of Religion, 5. The Concept of the Post-Secular and the Contemporary Nexus of Religion, Media, Popular Culture, and Consumer Culture, 6. Dimensions of Innovationism, 7. Authenticity Matters: Reflections on Lutheran and Muslim Perspectives of Individual Religiosity in Post-Secularity, 8. Combining Choice and Destiny: Identity and Agency within Post-Secular Well-being Practices, 9. Environmentalism as a Trend in Post-Secular Society, 10. Grappling with Liquid Modernity: Investigating, Post-Secular Religion, List of Contributors, Author Index, Subject Index

About the Author :
Peter Nynas is head of the department of comparative religion at Abo Akademi University in Finland and chief editor of Finsk Tidskrift. He is the co-editor of Bridges of Understanding. Mika Lassander received his PhD in religious studies from the Open University, UK in 2010. His work explores the links between values and religious change. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher at the Abo Akademi University, Finland. Terhi Utriainen is senior lecturer in the study of religions and adjunct professor in the study of religions and gender studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Review :
-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


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  • ISBN-13: 9781412854825
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1412854822
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 362 gr


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