Christianity in the Post Secular West - Softcover

John Stenhouse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925679128 ISBN 13: 9781925679120

Publisher: ATF Press, 2007

Synopsis

What is the future of Christianity in the twenty-first century West? Are Western societies growing more secular, leaving cherished religious traditions behind? Or have modernity''s secularising currents generated equally powerful desecularising and resacralising currents? Should secularisation theory, the dominant paradigm in the social scientific study of religion for much of the twentieth century, be thrown in the dustbin, as some scholars have suggested? Or does it remain useful, even indispensable, despite its limitations? How are globalising processes, bringing diverse religious communities into increasingly close contact, affecting Western Christian communities? Such questions have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many disciplines during recent years and are at the heart of the essays in this volume.

Edition details

• Publisher: ATF Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925679128
• ISBN 13: 9781925679120
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290