Overview
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.
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Author: Peter Nynas ,
Peter Nynas ,
Terhi Utriainen ,
Terhi Utriainen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.362kg
ISBN: 9781412854825
ISBN 10: 1412854822
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 November 2014
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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 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
Author Information
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.
