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'Sociological Noir further expands Kieran Flanagan's unique commentary, over a series of works, on today's social and religious dystopias. As a 'sociological prophet' inhabiting the wilderness boundaries between sociology and theology, he delves into the shadow side of modern culture, calling both disciplines to account over troubling questions they too often neglect. What is to be said about the nature of our times? Are we post-modern? post-religious? secular? The argument here stakes out the territory as 'post-secular'. - James Sweeney CP, University of London, UK 'Kieran Flanagan confirms his status as one of the most provocative, creative and original thinkers in the field where sociology and theology meet. Sociological Noir makes us think again about the dark side of modernity and, indeed, about the hidden currents and spirits in the sociological tradition.' - Chris Shilling, University of Kent, UK 'When 'God' -the word- becomes natural in conversation secularization is contravened. That normality emerges in this many-themed book where, for example, suffering and death stand high in Flanagan's ongoing sociological reconnoitering incursions into theological territories. His style fosters a critical curating of modernity and the post-modern through idioms of light, darkness and spectral presences while prompting thought and tempting solutions.' - Douglas J. Davies, Durham University, UK

'Sociological Noir further expands Kieran Flanagan's unique commentary, over a series of works, on today's social and religious dystopias. As a 'sociological prophet' inhabiting the wilderness boundaries between sociology and theology, he delves into the shadow side of modern culture, calling both disciplines to account over troubling questions they too often neglect. What is to be said about the nature of our times? Are we post-modern? post-religious? secular? The argument here stakes out the territory as 'post-secular'. - Dr James Sweeney CP, Heythrop College, University of London and President of the Catholic Theological Assocation of Great Britain, UK 'Kieran Flanagan confirms his status as one of the most provocative, creative and original thinkers in the field where sociology and theology meet. Sociological Noir makes us think again about the dark side of modernity and, indeed, about the hidden currents and spirits in the sociological tradition.' - Professor Chris Shilling, Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research), University of Kent, UK 'When 'God' -the word- becomes natural in conversation secularization is contravened. That normality emerges in this many-themed book where, for example, suffering and death stand high in Flanagan's ongoing sociological reconnoitering incursions into theological territories. His style fosters a critical curating of modernity and the post-modern through idioms of light, darkness and spectral presences while prompting thought and tempting solutions.' - Douglas J. Davies. Professor in the Study of Religion & Director of the Centre for Death and Life Studies, Durham University, UK

'Sociological Noir further expands Kieran Flanagan's unique commentary, over a series of works, on today's social and religious dystopias. As a 'sociological prophet' inhabiting the wilderness boundaries between sociology and theology, he delves into the shadow side of modern culture, calling both disciplines to account over troubling questions they too often neglect. What is to be said about the nature of our times? Are we post-modern? post-religious? secular? The argument here stakes out the territory as 'post-secular'. - James Sweeney CP, University of London, UK 'Kieran Flanagan confirms his status as one of the most provocative, creative and original thinkers in the field where sociology and theology meet. Sociological Noir makes us think again about the dark side of modernity and, indeed, about the hidden currents and spirits in the sociological tradition.' - Chris Shilling, University of Kent, UK 'When 'God' -the word- becomes natural in conversation secularization is contravened. That normality emerges in this many-themed book where, for example, suffering and death stand high in Flanagan's ongoing sociological reconnoitering incursions into theological territories. His style fosters a critical curating of modernity and the post-modern through idioms of light, darkness and spectral presences while prompting thought and tempting solutions.' - Douglas J. Davies, Durham University, UK

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Kieran Flanagan is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Sociology in Theology: Reflexivity and Belief (2007); Seen and Unseen: Visual Culture, Sociology and Theology (2004); The Enchantment of Sociology: A Study of Theology and Culture (1996); and Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentations of the Holy (1991), and co-editor with Peter C. Jupp of A Sociology of Spirituality (2007); Virtue Ethics and Sociology: Issues of Modernity and Religion (2001); and Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996).

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