The Many Altars of Modernity : : Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age / / Peter L. Berger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Berger, Peter L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (147 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Chapter 1: The Pluralist Phenomenon --; Chapter 2: Pluralism and Individual Faith --; Chapter 3: Pluralism and Religious Institutions --; Chapter 4: The Secular Discourse --; Chapter 5: Religion and Multiple Modernities --; Chapter 6: The Political Management of Pluralism --; Response by Nancy T. Ammerman: Modern Altars in Everyday Life --; Response by Detlef Pollack: Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociology of Religion? --; Response by Fenggang Yang: Agency-Driven Secularization and Chinese Experiments in Multiple Modernities --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781614516477; 9783110238570; 9783110238549; 9783110638165; 9783110369526; 9783110370409; 9783110716825
• DOI: 10.1515/9781614516477
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter L. Berger.

This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L. Berger, an internationally renowned sociologist of religion. Secularization theory-which saw modernity as leading to a decline of religion-has been empirically falsified. It should be replaced by a nuanced theory of pluralism. In this new book, Berger outlines the possible foundations for such a theory, addressing a wide range of issues spanning individual faith, interreligious societies, and the political order. He proposes a conversation around a new paradigm for religion and pluralism in an age of multiple modernities. The book also includes responses from three eminent scholars of religion: Nancy Ammerman, Detlef Pollack, and Fenggang Yang.