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Faith without Dogma - Place of Religion in Postmodern Societies (Paperback)
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We live in a time of high Church membership, but low Church
attendance. Franco Ferrarotti, arguably the most important
sociologist of religion alive, captures the source of this paradox
In the title of his new book, Faith without Dogma. For it is belief
that propels membership, while the absence of dogma results in a
reticence to accept hierarchical direction from above or beyond.
Basing much of his analysis on the postwar struggles within Roman
Catholicism, Ferrarotti views the demand for religious renewal and
revival as part and parcel of the emergence of broad social agendas
agendas to which not even the Roman curia could remain impervious.
The former easy relationships between Church and State, especially
authoritarian states in Europe and Latin America, gave way to a
critical defense of individual rights within a context of a
broadened vision of Christian doctrine. In addition to issues
Involved in internal affairs of religion, Ferrarotti explores a
series of developments that have changed for all time the nature of
Church survival. The critical element, one that goes beyond
specific doctrinal accommodations, is the new primary connection of
Church to people rather than Church to State. This came about
through the widespread acceptance of science and technology as
frames of intellectual reference, the emergence of secularization
as mediating religious claims and the creation from the
Enlightenment to the Postmodern eras of "civil religions." The
volume concludes with a set of chapters on the nature of sacred
events and objects, the emergence of new varieties of prayer, and
concludes with a chapter on the relationship of ideology to
theology prepared especially for the English language edition of
Faith without Dogma. This is a book likely to attract a broad
audience among religionists and culturologists, as well as social
scientists.
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