Introduction: Dialogues and Trajectories

In his luminous reflections on the intellectual trajectory that he has traced so far—beginning with the modern and proceeding through the secular toward the global—José Casanova notes that his evolving interests took him away from anthropology and toward sociology. Yet Casanova's work has remai...

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Published in:Religion and society
Authors: Coleman, Simon 1963- (Author) ; Sarró, Ramon 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Berghahn [2011]
In: Religion and society
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Summary:In his luminous reflections on the intellectual trajectory that he has traced so far—beginning with the modern and proceeding through the secular toward the global—José Casanova notes that his evolving interests took him away from anthropology and toward sociology. Yet Casanova's work has remained influential on, and in conversation with, that of many anthropologists, not least as a result of his desire to transcend a "Western-centric view of history and human development" (this volume) as well as his predictions that Pentecostalism may well become the predominant form of Christianity in the twenty-first century. This second volume of Religion and Society presents Casanova—author of the classic Public Religions in the Modern World (1994)—in dialogue with his own past and shifting present, but also responding to the comments of scholars who are themselves anthropologically informed and yet able to represent perspectives from sociology, theology, and religious studies.
ISSN:2150-9301
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion and society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2011.020101