(Un)Believing in Modern Society: Religion, Spirituality, and Religious-Secular Competition

by Thomas Englberger, Jeorg Stolz, Mallory Schneuwly Purdie, et al.

This landmark study in the sociology of religion sheds new light on the question of what has happened to religion and spirituality since the 1960s in modern societies. Exposing several analytical weaknesses of today's sociology of religion, (Un)Believing in Modern Society presents a new theory of religious-secular competition and a new typology of ways of being religious/secular. The authors draw on a specific European society (Switzerland) as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472461282
• ISBN13: 9781472461285
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"