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The sociology of religion : a critical agenda / Grace Davie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2013Edition: Second editionDescription: xxiii, 304 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781849205870 (pbk.)
  • 1849205876 (pbk.)
  • 9781849205863 (hbk.)
  • 1849205868 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6 23
Contents:
Part I: Theoretical perspectives. Common sources/different pathways -- Secularization: process and theory -- Rational choice theory -- Modernity: a single or plural construct? -- Methodological challenges -- Part II: Substantive issues. Mainstream religions in the Western world -- Minorities and margins -- Demanding attention: fundamentalisms in the modern world -- Globalization and the study of religion -- Religion and the everyday -- Conclusion: revisiting the agenda.
List(s) this item appears in: Religion
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Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Available at Centre for Social Science Research 306.6 D2491s 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 022912
Total holds: 0

First published 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.

Part I: Theoretical perspectives. Common sources/different pathways -- Secularization: process and theory -- Rational choice theory -- Modernity: a single or plural construct? -- Methodological challenges -- Part II: Substantive issues. Mainstream religions in the Western world -- Minorities and margins -- Demanding attention: fundamentalisms in the modern world -- Globalization and the study of religion -- Religion and the everyday -- Conclusion: revisiting the agenda.