Stef Aupers
Dick Houtman (eds)
About the book
Religions of Modernity’ challenges the social-scientific orthodoxy that, once unleashed, the modern forces of individualism, science and technology inevitably erode the sacred and evoke the profane. The book’s chapters, some by established scholars, others by junior researchers, document instead in rich empirical detail how modernity relocates the sacred to the deeper layers of the self and the domain of digital technology. Rather than destroying the sacred tout court, then, the cultural logic of modernization spawns its own religious meanings, unacknowledged spiritualities and magical enchantments. The classical theoretical accounts of modernity by Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and others, it is argued in the introductory chapter, already hinted that there’s a future for such religions of modernity..
SUMÁRIO
VII Acknowledgements
IX Contributors
1 CHAPTER ONE – Religions of Modernity Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital Dick Houtman and Stef Aupers
31 CHAPTER TWO – Two Real Religion and Fuzzy Spirituality? Taking Sides in the Sociology of Religion Linda Woodhead
69 CHAPTER FOUR – Private Religion in the Public Sphere Life Spirituality in Civil Society Siobhan Chandler
89 CHAPTER FIVE – Seeing Invisible Religion Religion as a Societal Conversation about Transcendent Meaning Kelly Besecke
49 CHAPTER THREE – I Did It My Way? Individual Choice and Social Conformity in New Age Religion Olav Hammer
115 CHAPTER SIX – Six Ethics of Sensitivity Towards a New Work Ethic Kirsten Marie Bovbjerg
135 CHAPTER SEVEN – Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket The Social and Public Significance of New Age Spirituality Stef Aupers and Dick Houtman
161 CHAPTER EIGHT – Silicon Valley New Age The Co-Constitution of the Digital and the Sacred Dorien Zandbergen
187 CHAPTER NINE – Science, Fiction and Religion About Real and Raelian Possible Worlds Carly Machado
205 CHAPTER TEN – Religion and Spirituality in Science Fiction Narratives: A Case of Multiple Modernities? Adam Possamai and Murray Lee
219 CHAPTER ELEVEN – ‘Where the Zeroes Meet the Ones’ Exploring the Affinity between Magic and Computer Technology Stef Aupers
239 CHAPTER TWELVE – Digital Apocalypse The Implicit Religiosity of the Millennium Bug Scare Karen Pärna
261 NAME INDEX
267 SUBJECT INDEX
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