Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State

by Bryan S. Turner

• ISBN13: 9780521858649
• ISBN10: 052185864X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society.

Author Biography

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and Director of the Committee on Religion, and Director of the Centrefor the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, University of Western Australia, Sydney. He is a prominent figure in the field of the sociology of religion and editor of The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Introduction: the state of the sociology of religion	p. viii
Theoretical frameworks: the problem of religion in sociology	p. 1
Religion, religions and the body	p. 3
the classification of religion	p. 30
comparative religion	p. 53
the expressive revolution	p. 71
Modern Primitives	p. 84
religious practice	p. 102
Religion, state and post-secularity	p. 125
The secularisation thesis	p. 127
Legal pluralism, religion and multiculturalism	p. 151
Managing religions: liberal and authoritarian states	p. 175
Religious speech: on ineffable communication	p. 194
Spiritualities: the media, feminism and consumerism	p. 209
Religion, globalisation and cosmopolitanism	p. 228
Civil religion, citizenship and the business cycle	p. 255
The globalisation of piety	p. 271
References	p. 298
Index	p. 333
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