Screen LibraryThe many altars of modernity : toward a paradigm for religion in a pluralist age /
This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L. Berger. It outlines a new paradigm for understanding religion and pluralism in an age of multiple modernities. Along the way, Berger addresses a wide range of issues spanning individual faith, interreligious socieities, and the political...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L. Berger. It outlines a new paradigm for understanding religion and pluralism in an age of multiple modernities. Along the way, Berger addresses a wide range of issues spanning individual faith, interreligious socieities, and the political order. The book also includes responses from three eminent scholars of religion: Nancy Ammerman,Detlef Pollack, and Fenggang Yang. |
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1 online resource(xiv,147pages) : illustrations Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781614516477 |
| Index Number: | BL85 |
| CLC: | B920 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Pluralist Phenomenon -- Chapter 2: Pluralism and Individual Faith -- Chapter 3: Pluralism and Religious Institutions -- Chapter 4: The Secular Discourse -- Chapter 5: Religion and Multiple Modernities -- Chapter 6: The Political Management of Pluralism -- Response by Nancy T. Ammerman: Modern Altars in Everyday Life -- Response by Detlef Pollack: Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociology of Religion? -- Response by Fenggang Yang: Agency-Driven Secularization and Chinese Experiments in Multiple Modernities -- Index. |