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Religion and modern society : citizenship, secularisation, and the state / Bryan S. Turner.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: xxvii, 344 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521858649 (hardback)
  • 9780521675321 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6 22
Contents:
Religion, religions and the body -- Emile Durkheim and the classification of religion -- Max Weber and comparative religion -- Talcott Parsons and the expressive revolution -- Mary Douglas and modern primitives -- Pierre Bourdieu and religious practice -- The secularisation thesis -- Legal pluralism, religion and multiculturalism -- Managing religions : liberal and authoritarian states -- Religious speech : on ineffable communication -- Spiritualities : the media, feminism, and consumerism -- Religion, globalisation and cosmopolitanism -- Civil religion, citizenship and the business cycle -- The globalisation of piety.
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Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Available at Centre for Social Science Research 306.6 T942r 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 022995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-332) and index.

Religion, religions and the body -- Emile Durkheim and the classification of religion -- Max Weber and comparative religion -- Talcott Parsons and the expressive revolution -- Mary Douglas and modern primitives -- Pierre Bourdieu and religious practice -- The secularisation thesis -- Legal pluralism, religion and multiculturalism -- Managing religions : liberal and authoritarian states -- Religious speech : on ineffable communication -- Spiritualities : the media, feminism, and consumerism -- Religion, globalisation and cosmopolitanism -- Civil religion, citizenship and the business cycle -- The globalisation of piety.

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