Sociology of Religion for Generations X and y (Hardcover)

• Category:  Books  »  Social Sciences  »  Sociology of Religion
• Format: Hardcover   Learn more about the Hardcover format using Tower WIKI.
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• ISBN: 1845533038
• WAPI (Tower ID): 112403746
• Release Date: December 1, 2009
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This volume on the sociology of religion marks its specific relevance to the generations X and Y from the very first page. Readers and students from this generation are involved in consumer culture, get part of their knowledge through popular culture and/or the Internet, and are more practical than theoretical. The academic world lacks a work that focuses on the need of these generations; this book, which is at the intersection of consumer, cyber, and popular culture, fills that void. Each chapter is introduced by a case study from popular culture or the Internet. This narrative device is a key approach that brings readers and students to the heart of the problem and explores relevant sociological concepts such as secularization and the multiple modernization thesis, re-enchantment, the McDonaldization of society, and the easternization of the west. At the same time, it addresses contemporary phenomena within, for example, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, New Age, Scientology, and Witchcraft groups on- and off-line. It also addresses new religious phenomena such as the mixing of religion and popular culture on the Internet as found in new groups such as Jediism and Matrixism. While covering classical works in the field, this book uses the writing of cutting edge theorists to understand where religion and spirituality are coming from, where they are at the moment, and wherethey might be going.

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