The Religious and the Political Paperback: A Comparative Sociology of Religion - Softcover

Turner, Bryan S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521675316 ISBN 13: 9780521675314

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Religion and politics are fundamental dimensions of human society, yet they are often at loggerheads. The apparent differences are deceptive, because the two are inevitably entwined - both deeply concerned with control or regulation of everyday affairs. This book explores how and where they intersect in different religions and societies.

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Críticas

'The Religious and the Political challenges conventional assumptions about secular modernity by demonstrating that state formations are deeply enmeshed with the religious on myriad fronts - from gender and family to revelation and charisma, agency and conversion, citizenship, power and violence, and colonialism. Turner's global comparative sociology of this 'tragic tension' will help informed scholars and a wider readership alike grapple with the key antinomies of liberal modernity in ways that point to a path forward for both souls and states.' John R. Hall, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

Biografía del autor

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Committee on Religion at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York, and the Director of the Center for Religion and Society at the University of Western Sydney. He is the author of Religion and Modern Society (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and the editor of The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0521675316
• ISBN 13: 9780521675314
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292