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Author Stolz, Jörg

Title (Un)Believing in Modern Society : Religion, Spirituality, and Religious-Secular Competition
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (315 pages)
Summary This landmark study in the sociology of religion sheds new light on the question of what has happened to religion and spirituality since the 1960s in modern societies. Exposing several analytical weaknesses of today's sociology of religion, (Un)Believing in Modern Society presents a new theory of religious-secular competition and a new typology of ways of being religious/secular. The authors draw on a specific European society (Switzerland) as their test case, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to show how the theory can be applied. Identifying four ways of being religious/s
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Subject Religion
SUBJECT Switzerland -- Religion
Subject Switzerland
Form Electronic book
Author Könemann, Judith
Purdie, Mallory Schneuwly
Englberger, Thomas
Krüggeler, Michael
ISBN 9781134800124
1134800126