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A response to the depletion of the rhetoric of sociology and the
spiritual capital of theology, this volume explores the remains of
Christianity that still lurk as portents in a progressively
de-Christianised society seeking replacements for belief. With the
sociologist set in the role of an oracle seeking traces of
Christianity in a discipline in which the intrusion of theological
understandings has become harder to resist, it offers a narrative
of belief following the direction of an exemplary portent: the
finger. Through the exploration of broad trends in culture and
modern history, this study, informed by interactionist thought,
examines both the place of sociology in Christian theology, and the
failure of theology to connect to its surrounding culture, asking
how the two disciplines might meld profitably together. As such, it
will appeal to social theorists and theologians, as well as
sociologists with interests in religion, culture and
secularisation.
Contrary to secular claims regarding the expulsion of religion,
modernity does in fact produce unprecedented forms whose
understanding re-casts the relationships between sociology and
theology. This book explores 'irruptions' which disturb modernity
from without: fragments or deposits of history that have spectral -
or 'noir' - properties, whether ruins, collective memories, or the
dark Gothic or the Satanic as manifested in culture. The study
investigates what irrupts from these depths to unsettle our
understanding of modernity so as to reveal its theological roots. A
ground-breaking and extensive work, Sociological Noir explores
literature, history and theology to re-cast the sociological
imagination in ways that inspire reflection on new configurations
in modernity. As such, it will have wide-spread appeal to
sociologists and social theorists with interests in religion,
theology and debates on postsecularism and culture.
Contrary to secular claims regarding the expulsion of religion,
modernity does in fact produce unprecedented forms whose
understanding re-casts the relationships between sociology and
theology. This book explores 'irruptions' which disturb modernity
from without: fragments or deposits of history that have spectral -
or 'noir' - properties, whether ruins, collective memories, or the
dark Gothic or the Satanic as manifested in culture. The study
investigates what irrupts from these depths to unsettle our
understanding of modernity so as to reveal its theological roots. A
ground-breaking and extensive work, Sociological Noir explores
literature, history and theology to re-cast the sociological
imagination in ways that inspire reflection on new configurations
in modernity. As such, it will have wide-spread appeal to
sociologists and social theorists with interests in religion,
theology and debates on postsecularism and culture.
The emergence of spirituality in contemporary culture in holistic
forms suggests that organised religions have failed. This thesis is
explored and disputed in this book in ways that mark important
critical divisions. This is the first collection of essays to
assess the significance of spirituality in the sociology of
religion. The authors explore the relationship of spirituality to
the visual, individualism, gender, identity politics, education and
cultural capital. The relationship between secularisation and
spirituality is examined and consideration is given to the
significance of Simmel in relation to a sociology of spirituality.
Problems of defining spirituality are debated with reference to its
expression in the UK, the USA, France and Holland. This timely,
original and well structured volume provides undergraduates,
postgraduates and researchers with a scholarly appraisal of a
phenomenon that can only increase in sociological significance.
The emergence of spirituality in contemporary culture in holistic
forms suggests that organised religions have failed. This thesis is
explored and disputed in this book in ways that mark important
critical divisions. This is the first collection of essays to
assess the significance of spirituality in the sociology of
religion. The authors explore the relationship of spirituality to
the visual, individualism, gender, identity politics, education and
cultural capital. The relationship between secularisation and
spirituality is examined and consideration is given to the
significance of Simmel in relation to a sociology of spirituality.
Problems of defining spirituality are debated with reference to its
expression in the UK, the USA, France and Holland. This timely,
original and well structured volume provides undergraduates,
postgraduates and researchers with a scholarly appraisal of a
phenomenon that can only increase in sociological significance.
This collection of 13 specially commissioned essays expands a new intellectual terrain for sociology: virtue ethics. Using a variety of religious perspectives, of Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism, Quakerism, with considerations of Islam and the New Age, this engaged and topical collection deals with properties of virtue in relation to the person, celibacy, hope, the apocalypse, mourning, and moral ambiguity. It also treats the concept of virtue in response to MacIntyre, Bauman, Weber, Durkheim, and Giddens. It seeks to move sociology past disabling effects of postmodernity.
This topical collection of eleven commissioned essays by
well-established contributors from sociology, religious studies and
theology, is one of the first treatments of the relationship
between postmodernity and religion from a sociological perspective.
The essays cover a diversity of interests, but treat postmodernity
in terms of its implications for the self, the New Age and
theology, particularly Catholicism and Judaism. Two of the essays
are original appraisals of two important French writers on
religion: Jean-Luc Marion and Daniele Hervieu-Leger.
This topical collection of eleven commissioned essays by
well-established contributors from sociology, religious studies and
theology, is one of the first treatments of the relationship
between postmodernity and religion from a sociological perspective.
The essays cover a diversity of interests, but treat postmodernity
in terms of its implications for the self, the New Age and
theology, particularly Catholicism and Judaism. Two of the essays
are original appraisals of two important French writers on
religion: Jean-Luc Marion and Daniele Hervieu-Leger.
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