What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
This collection responds to and expands upon recent scholarship on religion, secularity, and spirituality. Courtney Bender and Ann Taves offer the volume as a revisitation and revision of a now-familiar secular(ized) story: According to this story, a secular age is a reflexive age; religious believe...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2012
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 73, Issue: 4, Pages: 458-459 |
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| Summary: | This collection responds to and expands upon recent scholarship on religion, secularity, and spirituality. Courtney Bender and Ann Taves offer the volume as a revisitation and revision of a now-familiar secular(ized) story: According to this story, a secular age is a reflexive age; religious believers must be aware of themselves as believers—and aware that they need not choose belief. Concomitantly, a secular age forces one to reckon with the historical–cultural constitution of beliefs and values that once one could assume to be transcontextual, intrinsic, and universal. Ambivalence and doubt enter where certainty once prevailed. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srs064 |