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Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital

Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital

Aupers, Stef
Houtman, Dick

Hardcover

Religion General General Sociology

ISBN10: 9004184511
ISBN13: 9789004184510
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 7 2010
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
Religions of Modernity' challenges the social-scientific orthodoxy that, once unleashed, the modern forces of individualism, science and technology inevitably erode the sacred and evoke the profane. The book's chapters, some by established scholars, others by junior researchers, document instead in rich empirical detail how modernity relocates the sacred to the deeper layers of the self and the domain of digital technology. Rather than destroying the sacred tout court, then, the cultural logic of modernization spawns its own religious meanings, unacknowledged spiritualities and magical enchantments. The classical theoretical accounts of modernity by Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and others, it is argued in the introductory chapter, already hinted that there's a future for such religions of modernity.

Contributors: Stef Aupers, Kelly Besecke, Kirsten Marie Bovbjerg, Siobhan Chandler, Olav Hammer, Dick Houtman, Murray Lee, Carly Machado, Karen Pärna, Adam Possamai, Linda Woodhead, and Dorien Zandbergen.

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