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Author: Jörg Stolz ,
Judith Könemann ,
Mallory Schneuwly Purdie ,
Thomas Englberger
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.725kg
ISBN: 9781472461285
ISBN 10: 1472461282
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 28 December 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'If you read just one book on the sociology of religion published in the last ten years, this is the one to choose. It provides both a synthesis of earlier research and a fresh analysis of religious change in modern society. It combines the general reach of quantitative studies with the rich detail of qualitative work. Best of all, it offers convincing explanations.' David Voas, University of Essex, UK 'This is a very important book. The theory of religious-secular competition proposed by the authors is a challenging alternative to former theories of secularization, individualization, and rational choice.' Karel Dobbelaere, University of Leuven, Belgium and Honorary president of the ISSR 'Creatively using both quantitative evidence and in-depth interviews, this book will stand as the authoritative account of religion in Switzerland at the beginning of the twenty-first century. But it is more than that. The authors' conceptual map of the Swiss religious landscape helps us think more clearly about religion elsewhere, and their explanation of recent religious trends in Switzerland rings true for other places as well.' Mark Chaves, Duke University, USA
Author Information
Jorg Stolz is professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Lausanne. Substantively, he works on the description and explanation of different forms of religiosity, evangelicalism, secularization, and comparison of religious groups across religious traditions. He is the author of many articles in leading sociology journals, among which 'Explaining religiosity: towards a unified theoretical framework' in the British Journal of Sociology. He is the president of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. Judith Konemann is Professor of Practical Theology in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Munster, Germany. She works on the description and explanation of various forms of individual religiosity, and religion in the public sphere. She has written: 'Ich wunschte, ich ware glaubig, glaub ich': Zugange zu Religion und Religiositat in der Lebensfuhrung der spaten Moderne, has edited several books, such as Bildung und Gerechtigkeit: Warum religiose Bildung politisch sein muss (co-authored with Norbert Mette) and is the author of many articles in leading peer-reviewed (theological) journals, including 'Religion and All-Day Schools', in Journal of Empirical Theology, and 'Religious reasons in the public sphere: an empirical study of religious actors' argumentative patterns in Swiss direct democratic campaigns', in European Political Science Review (co-authored with A. Bachtiger and A. Jodicke). Mallory Schneuwly Purdie holds a PhD in Sociology of Religion and Applied Study of Religion. She is a researcher at the Institute for the Social Sciences of Religions at the University of Lausanne. Among her recent publications: with co-author Andrea Rota (2014) 'Religion, education and the State: Rescaling confessional boundaries in Switzerland' in Stan Brunn (ed.) The Changing World Religion Map, (New York, 2013); and 'Formatting Islam versus mobilizing Islam in prison: Evidence from the Swiss case'. Thomas Englberger, MA, has worked on the description of religiosity in Switzerland, especially on Roman Catholicism, and on the pluralisation of values and religiosity. Following a qualitative approach, he has written (together with M. Krueggeler et al.) Solidaritat und Religion: Was bewegt Menschen in Solidaritatsgruppen? Analyzing and comparing different quantitative surveys about religiosity, he has written (together with A. Dubach et al.) Lebenswerte: Religion und Lebensfuhrung in der Schweiz. He is author (together with M. Jakobs et al.) of Konfessioneller Religionsunterricht in multireligioser Gesellschaft focusing on attitudes of religious education teachers in Switzerland. Michael Kruggeler, PhD, is a sociologist of religion who has worked both quantitatively and qualitatively on the secularization and individualization of religion. He is a co-author of the books Jede/r ein Sonderfall? Religion in der Schweiz - Ergebnisse einer Reprasentativbefragung and Solidaritat und Religion: Was bewegt Menschen in Solidaritatsgruppen?. Currently, he works as a scientific collaborator at the chair of Sociology of Religion and the Centre for Religion and Modernity at the University of Munster, Westphalia
