The Many Altars of Modernity : : Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age / / 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 ne...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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