Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
About the Book Series
The British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group began in 1975 and provides the primary forum in Britain for scholarship in the sociology of religion. The nature of religion remains of key academic interest and this series draws on the latest worldwide scholarship in compelling and coherent collections on critical themes. Secularisation and the future of religion; gender; the negotiation and presentation of religious identities, beliefs and values; and the interplay between group and individual in religious settings are some of the areas addressed. Ultimately, these books reflect not just on religious life but on how wider society is affected by the enduring religious framing of human relationships, morality and the nature of society itself. This series is part of the broader Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series edited by Douglas Davies and Richard Fenn.
Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies
1st Edition
Edited
By Elijah Obinna, Giselle Vincett, Afe Adogame, Elizabeth Olson
February 12, 2018
What is the state of Christianity today, and what might it look like in the future? In the West, the story for a long time has revolved around decline and the loss of monopoly status, but how are these shifts changing the practice of Christianity or individual belief? Similarly, the rapid growth of...
Sociological Theory and the Question of Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew McKinnon, Marta Trzebiatowska
February 12, 2018
Religion lies near the heart of the classical sociological tradition, yet it no longer occupies the same place within the contemporary sociological enterprise. This relative absence has left sociology under-prepared for thinking about religion’s continuing importance in new issues, movements, and ...
Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristin Aune, Sonya Sharma
February 27, 2017
What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but ...
Religion, Identity and Change: Perspectives on Global Transformations
1st Edition
By Simon Coleman, Peter Collins
November 28, 2016
Religion is of enduring importance in the lives of many people, yet the religious landscape has been dramatically transformed in recent decades. Established churches have been challenged by eastern faiths, revivals of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism, and the eclectic spiritualities of the New ...
Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Arweck, Christopher Deacy
November 10, 2016
In recent years, there has been growing awareness across a range of academic disciplines of the value of exploring issues of religion and the sacred in relation to cultures of everyday life. Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age offers inter-disciplinary perspectives drawing from ...
Religion and Knowledge: Sociological Perspectives
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Arweck, Mathew Guest
October 27, 2016
Religions have always been associated with particular forms of knowledge, often knowledge accorded special significance and sometimes knowledge at odds with prevailing understandings of truth and authority in wider society. New religious movements emerge on the basis of reformulated, often ...
Religion and Youth
1st Edition
By Pink Dandelion, Sylvia Collins-Mayo
July 28, 2010
What is the future of religion given the responses of young people? What impact do existing religious forms have on youth? What kind of spirituality and religion are young people creating for themselves? Religion and Youth presents an accessible guide to the key issues in the study of youth and...
A Sociology of Spirituality
1st Edition
By Peter C. Jupp, Kieran Flanagan
November 28, 2009
The emergence of spirituality in contemporary culture in holistic forms suggests that organised religions have failed. This thesis is explored and disputed in this book in ways that mark important critical divisions. This is the first collection of essays to assess the significance of spirituality ...
Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By Grace Davie, Paul Heelas, Linda Woodhead
November 24, 2003
Religion in the contemporary west is undergoing rapid change. In Predicting Religion twenty experts in the study of religion present their predictions about the future of religion in the 21st century - predictions based on careful analysis of the contemporary religious scene from traditional forms...