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The Liquidation of the Church (Hardcover)
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The Liquidation of the Church (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
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Is religion dying out in Western societies? Is personal
spirituality taking its place? Both stories are inadequate.
Institutional religion is not simply coming to an end in Western
societies. Rather, its assets and properties are redistributed:
large parts of the church have gone into liquidation. Religion is
crossing the boundaries of the parish and appears in other social
contexts. In the fields of leisure, health care and contemporary
culture, religion has an unexpected currency. The metaphor of
liquidation provides an alternative to approaches that merely
perceive the decline of religion or a spiritual revolution.
Religion is becoming liquid. By examining a number of case studies
in the Netherlands and beyond, including World Youth Day,
television, spiritual centers, chaplaincy, mental healthcare,
museums and theatre, this book develops a fresh way to look at
religion in late modernity and produces new questions for
theological and sociological debate. It is both an exercise in
sociology and an exercise in practical theology conceived as the
engaged study of religious praxis. As such, the aim is not only to
get a better understanding of what is going on, but also to
critique one-sided views and to provide alternative perspectives
for those who are active in the religious field or its
surroundings.
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