Sociology of Religion for Generations X and YAdam Possamai
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Description
Readers and students from generations X and Y are involved in consumer culture, get part of their knowledge through popular culture and/or the internet, and are more practical than theoretical. This book on the sociology of religion straddles the intersection between consumer culture, cyber-culture and popular culture, and focuses on the need of these generations.
This book makes specific relevance to generations X and Y from the very first page. To draw the reader into a topic, each chapter begins with a case study from popular culture or the internet. This narrative device is a key approach to bringing readers and students to the heart of the problem. Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y explores sociological concepts such as secularisation and the multiple modernisation thesis, re-enchantment, the ‘McDonaldisation’ of society and the easternisation of the west, while addressing contemporary phenomenon within, for example, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, New Age, Scientology, and Witchcraft groups, both online and offline. It also addresses new religious phenomena such as the mixing of religion and popular culture on the internet as found in new groups such as Jediism and Matrixism.
While covering classical works in the field, Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y uses the writing of cutting edge theorists to understand where religion and spirituality are coming from, where they are right now, and where they might be going. It also highlights the practical relevance of this sub-discipline to readers and students by exploring what sociologists of religion do outside of the academy.
Readers and students from generations X and Y are involved in consumer culture, get part of their knowledge through popular culture and/or the internet, and are more practical than theoretical. This book on the sociology of religion straddles the intersection between consumer culture, cyber-culture and popular culture, and focuses on the need of these generations.
This book makes specific relevance to generations X and Y from the very first page. To draw the reader into a topic, each chapter begins with a case study from popular culture or the internet. This narrative device is a key approach to bringing readers and students to the heart of the problem. Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y explores sociological concepts such as secularisation and the multiple modernisation thesis, re-enchantment, the ‘McDonaldisation’ of society and the easternisation of the west, while addressing contemporary phenomenon within, for example, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, New Age, Scientology, and Witchcraft groups, both online and offline. It also addresses new religious phenomena such as the mixing of religion and popular culture on the internet as found in new groups such as Jediism and Matrixism.
While covering classical works in the field, Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y uses the writing of cutting edge theorists to understand where religion and spirituality are coming from, where they are right now, and where they might be going. It also highlights the practical relevance of this sub-discipline to readers and students by exploring what sociologists of religion do outside of the academy.
Contents
Introduction: X-ers and Y-ers as Cohorts of the Post 1970’S Generation
Chapter 1: Religious Diversity and the Politics of Definition
Chapter 2: Religion and Popular Culture
Chapter 3: Religion and Modernity: Marx, Dukheim and Weber
Chapter 4: Religion, Spirituality and the Post-secularisation Approach
Chapter 5: Religion and Postmodernity (Part A): Consumer Religions
Chapter 6: Religion and Postmodernity (Part B): Hyper-reality and the Internet
Chapter 7: Esotericism, its ‘McDonaldisation’ and its Re-enchantment Process
Chapter 8: Monotheistic Fundamentalism(s) as an outcome of consumer culture
Chapter 9: Buddhism, its Westernisation and the Easternisation of the West
Chapter 10: Christianity, Churches and Sects in a Postchristian World
Chapter 11: The Multiple-Modernities of Islam?
Chapter 12: New Religious Movements and the Death of the New Age
Chapter 13: Witchcraft, the Internet and Consumerism
Conclusion: What do Sociologists of Religion in Academia do Apart from Teaching and Marking? Their Work as Intellectuals
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1845533038 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845533038 |
| Price (Hardback) | £60.00/$95.00 |
| ISBN-10 (Paperback) | 1845533046 |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 9781845533045 |
| Price (Paperback) | £16.99/$27.95 |
| Publication Date | October 2009 |
| Pages | 240 |
| Size | 234 x 156mm |
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