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Is God Back?: Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion
Hjelm Titus
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Description for Is God Back?: Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion
Paperback. Editor(s): Hjelm, Titus. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FB; JFSR; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
Is God Back? Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion examines the shifting boundary between religion and the public sphere in Europe and the Middle East. Asking what the 'new visibility of religion' means and challenging simplistic notions of living in a 'post-secular' age, the chapters explore how religion is contested and renegotiated in the public sphere - or rather, in different publics - and the effects of these struggles on society, state and religion itself. Whereas religion arguably never went away in the USA, the re-emergence of public religion is a European phenomenon. Is God ... Read more
Is God Back? Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion examines the shifting boundary between religion and the public sphere in Europe and the Middle East. Asking what the 'new visibility of religion' means and challenging simplistic notions of living in a 'post-secular' age, the chapters explore how religion is contested and renegotiated in the public sphere - or rather, in different publics - and the effects of these struggles on society, state and religion itself. Whereas religion arguably never went away in the USA, the re-emergence of public religion is a European phenomenon. Is God ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472526663
SKU
V9781472526663
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About Hjelm Titus
Titus Hjelm is Lecturer in Finnish Society and Culture at University College London, UK.
Reviews for Is God Back?: Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion
[I]t is [the] eclecticism that is one of the main appeals of the book. There is something to interest everyone, and younger researchers or those new to the field of sociology of religion will find it particularly helpful.
Sociology of Religion
This collection is outstanding: lively, timely, wide-ranging, probing and sceptical about woolly notions of religion's return to ... Read more
Sociology of Religion
This collection is outstanding: lively, timely, wide-ranging, probing and sceptical about woolly notions of religion's return to ... Read more