RT Book
T1 Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital
T2 International Studies in Religion and Society Ser.
A1 Houtman, Dick
A2 Aupers, Stef
LA English
PP Leiden
PB BRILL
YR 2010
ED 1st ed.
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1696487404
AB Religions of Modernity' challenges the social-scientific orthodoxy that modernization inevitably erodes the sacred, and documents - in rich empirical detail - how modernity spawns its own religious meanings by relocating the sacred to the self and the domain of digital technology.
AB Intro -- Religions of Modernity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Chapter One: Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital -- Chapter Two: Real Religion and Fuzzy Spirituality? Taking Sides in the Sociology of Religion -- Chapter Three: I Did It My Way? Individual Choice and Social Conformity in New Age Religion -- Chapter Four: Private Religion in the Public Sphere: Life Spirituality in Civil Society -- Chapter Five: Seeing Invisible Religion: Religion as a Societal Conversation about Transcendent Meaning -- Chapter Six: Ethics of Sensitivity: Towards a New Work Ethic -- Chapter Seven: Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket: The Social and Public Significance of New Age Spirituality -- Chapter Eight: Silicon Valley New Age: The Co-Constitution of the Digital and the Sacred -- Chapter Nine: Science, Fiction and Religion: About Real and Raelian Possible Worlds -- Chapter Ten: Religion and Spirituality in Science Fiction Narratives: A Case of Multiple Modernities? -- Chapter Eleven: 'Where the Zeroes Meet the Ones': Exploring the Affinity between Magic and Computer Technology -- Chapter Twelve: Digital Apocalypse: The Implicit Religiosity of the Millennium Bug Scare -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
CN BL55
SN 9789004193697
K1 Civilization, Modern : 21st century
K1 Religion and civilization
K1 Civilization, Modern ; 21st century
K1 Electronic books