Religion, identity, and change : perspectives on global transformations / edited by Simon Coleman and Peter Collins.
Material type: TextSeries: Religion and theology in interdisciplinary perspectives seriesPublisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xii, 214 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0754604500
- 9780754604501
- 306.60941 21
- BL60 .R323 2004
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.60941 REL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A290148B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Kieran Flanagan -- 1. Introduction - Ambiguous Attachments: Religion, Identity and Nation / Simon Coleman and Peter Collins -- 2. Losing Our Space, Finding Our Place? The Changing Identity of the English Parish Church / Martyn Percy -- 3. The Changing Identity of Catholics in England / Michael P. Hornsby-Smith -- 4. Identity and the Anglican Priesthood: Debates on the Ordination of Women and Homosexuals in Sociological Perspective / Martin D. Stringer -- 5. Religion, Identity and Change in Contemporary Wales / Paul Chambers -- 6. Unfinished Business - Devolving Scotland/Devolving Religion / Steve Sutcliffe -- 7. Time, Place and Mormon Sense of Self / Douglas Davies -- 8. American-led Urban Revivals as Ethnic Identity Arenas in Britain / Nancy A. Schaefer -- 9. Protestant Women - Protesting Faith: Tangling Secular and Religious Identity in Northern Ireland / Katy Radford -- 10. Islam, Identity and Globalisation: Reflections in the Wake of 11 September 2001 / David Herbert -- 11. 'I'm a Gujarati Lohana and a Vaishnav as Well': Religious Identity Formation among Young Coventrian Punjabis and Gujaratis / Eleanor Nesbitt -- 12. Kinship Identity and Nonformative Spiritual Seekership / Matthew Wood.
"This book addresses the need for a reassessment of issues relating to identity in the light of current transformation in society as a whole and religion in particular. Drawing together case-studies from many different expressions of faith and belief - Hindu, Muslim, Roman Catholic, Anglican, New Age - leading scholars ask how contemporary religions or spiritualities respond to the challenge of forming individual and collective identities in a nation context marked by secularisation and postmodern decentring of culture, as well as religious revitalisation. The book focuses on Britain as a context for religious change, but asks important questions that are of universal significance for those studying religion: How is personal and collective identity constructed in a world of multiple social and cultural influences? What role can religion play in creating, reinforcing or even transforming such identity?"--BOOK JACKET.
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