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This volume is the first to bring together a comprehensive selection of readings which illustrate and analyse religion's encounters with the forces of modernization - including nationalism, capitalism, colonialism, democracy, gender and identity politics.
Drawing on scholarly analysis, empirical research and vivid concrete examples, the book offers a picture of a religious world which is increasingly characterized by the coexistence of:
Old faiths and new spiritualities
A turn to tradition and a turn to experience
Decline and revival
Privatization and political militancy
Tolerance and intolerance"
Religion in Modern Times" offers a new framework and language for making sense of religion today.
This book brings together over 300 important readings on religion in modern times, offering a new framework and language for making sense of religion today.
| michael d watkins murthy sudha marc mercuri camille paglia dale m courtney | michael f stagliano athanasios papoulis vijay govindarajan patrick johan kugelberg |