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(Un)Believing in Modern Society

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(Un)Believing in Modern Society

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Religion, Spirituality, and Religious-Secular Competition

(Un)Believing in Modern Society

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(Un)Believing in Modern Society book

Religion, Spirituality, and Religious-Secular Competition
ByJörg Stolz, Judith Könemann, Mallory Schneuwly Purdie, Thomas Englberger, Michael Krüggeler
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 29 June 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315562711
Pages 310
eBook ISBN 9781315562711
Subjects Humanities, Social Sciences
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Stolz, J., Könemann, J., Purdie, M.S., Englberger, T., & Krüggeler, M. (2016). (Un)Believing in Modern Society: Religion, Spirituality, and Religious-Secular Competition (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315562711

ABSTRACT

This landmark study in the sociology of religion sheds new light on the question of what has happened to religion and spirituality since the 1960s in modern societies. Exposing several analytical weaknesses of today's sociology of religion, (Un)Believing in Modern Society presents a new theory of religious-secular competition and a new typology of ways of being religious/secular. The authors draw on a specific European society (Switzerland) as their test case, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to show how the theory can be applied. Identifying four ways of being religious/secular in a modern society: 'institutional', 'alternative', 'distanced' and 'secular' they show how and why these forms have emerged as a result of religious-secular competition and describe in what ways all four forms are adapted to the current, individualized society.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction: Religion and Spirituality in the Me-Society

ByJörg Stolz, Judith Könemann

chapter 2|40 pages

A Theory of Religious-Secular Competition

ByJörg Stolz, Judith Könemann

chapter 3|14 pages

Four Forms of (Un)Belief

ByJörg Stolz, Mallory Schneuwly-Purdie

chapter 4|12 pages

Identity and Social Structure

ByJörg Stolz, Mallory Schneuwly Purdie

chapter 5|20 pages

Belief, Knowledge, Experience, Action

ByMallory Schneuwly Purdie, Jörg Stolz

chapter 6|12 pages

Values and Change of Values

ByJörg Stolz , omas Englberger

chapter 7|22 pages

Major Churches, Evangelical Churches and Alternative- Spiritual Suppliers

ByJörg Stolz, Judith Könemann, Mallory Schneuwly Purdie, Thomas Englberger, Michael Krüggeler

chapter 8|20 pages

The Perception and Evaluation of Religion(s)

ByJörg Stolz, omas Englberger

chapter 9|36 pages

The Change in Religiosity, Spirituality and Secularity

ByJörg Stolz, omas Englberger, Michael Krüggeler, Judith

chapter 10|10 pages

Conclusion: (Un)Believing in Modern Society

ByJörg Stolz, Judith Könemann
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