Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004184511 ISBN 13 : 9789004184510

Editeur : Brill, 2010

Synopsis

Religions of Modernity' challenges the social-scientific orthodoxy that, once unleashed, the modern forces of individualism, science and technology inevitably erode the sacred and evoke the profane. The book's chapters, some by established scholars, others by junior researchers, document instead in rich empirical detail how modernity relocates the sacred to the deeper layers of the self and the domain of digital technology. Rather than destroying the sacred tout court, then, the cultural logic of modernization spawns its own religious meanings, unacknowledged spiritualities and magical enchantments. The classical theoretical accounts of modernity by Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and others, it is argued in the introductory chapter, already hinted that there's a future for such religions of modernity.

Contributors: Stef Aupers, Kelly Besecke, Kirsten Marie Bovbjerg, Siobhan Chandler, Olav Hammer, Dick Houtman, Murray Lee, Carly Machado, Karen Pärna, Adam Possamai, Linda Woodhead, and Dorien Zandbergen.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stef Aupers (Ph.D., 2004) is Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a member of the Center for Rotterdam Cultural Sociology (CROCUS). He published on contemporary spirituality, conspiracy culture, internet culture and authored 'Under the Spell of Modernity' (Ashgate, 2010).

Dick Houtman (Ph.D., 1994) is Professor of Cultural Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and member of the Center for Rotterdam Cultural Sociology (CROCUS). He studies cultural change in the contemporary west, particularly the spiritualization of religion and culturalization of politics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004184511
• ISBN 13: 9789004184510
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Aupers Stef, Houtman Dick
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