Religious Indifference : New Perspectives From Studies on Secularization and Nonreligion

This book provides a conceptually and empirically rich introduction to religious indifference on the basis of original anthropological, historical and sociological research. Religious indifference is a central category for understanding contemporary societies, and a controversial one. For some schol...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Quack, Johannes (Editor), Schuh, Cora (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Religion.
Sociology.
Religion and sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319484761
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-48476-1
Physical DescriptionVIII, 273 p. 3 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Religious Indifferences in Relation to Religion and Nonreligion (Johannes Quack)
  • Chapter 2. Genealogies of Indifference? New theoretical thoughts on the history and creation of narratives surrounding Christianity, Secularism and Indifference (David Nash)
  • Chapter 3. A Discursive Approach to 'Religious Indifference': Critical Reflections from Edinburgh's Southside (Christopher Cotter)
  • Chapter 4. Interfaith Dialogue and the Challenge of Indifference: Reflections from Fieldwork in the City of Peace and Reconciliation (Rebecca Catto)
  • Chapter 5. Collective Memory and Religious Indifference in Immigration Societies: Secular Resurrections of Catholicism in Quebec (Marian Burchardt)
  • Chapter 6. Religion, Difference and Indifference (Lois Lee)
  • Chapter 7. Religion, interrupted? Observations on religious indifference in Estonia (Atko Remmel)
  • Chapter 8. Measuring religious indifference in international sociological quantitative surveys (EVS and ISSP) (Pierre Bréchon)
  • Chapter 9. Religious indifference and religious rites of passage (Pascal Siegers)
  • Chapter 10. Bio- and ethnographic approaches to indifference, detachment, and disengagement in the study of religion (in India and Germany) (Johannes Quack)
  • Chapter 11. Varieties of Nonreligion: Why some people criticize religion, while others just don't care (Petra Klug)
  • Chapter 12. The Limits of Religious Indifference (Joseph Blankholm). Chapter 13
  • Embedded Indifference and Ways to Research it (Cora Schuh).

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