Secularity and Non-Religion
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (625 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415710448 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The present collection brings together a set of essays which shed light on recent research into non-religion, secularity and atheismtopics which have been emerging as important areas of current research in a number of different disciplines. This collection represents a major contribution to this area of academic research, not only because it puts the themes of non-religion and secularity firmly on the academic map, but also because it offers a variety of different viewpoints and aims to bring clarity into the use of concepts and terminology. The authors make important contributions to the emerging body of research in this area and point out areas where further research is needed. The authors address issues related to an important academic field which had been neglected for some time, but which has been made relevant by the increasing percentage of people professing a non-religious stance. The first essay provides a thorough introduction to this field, taking stock of the work done so far, highlighting the overarching issues, and embedding the essays in the wider context of existing literature.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Religion.. The essays cover a wide spanin terms of the various stances they discuss (secular, atheist, non-religious), the settings in which these topics are relevan
Dr Elisabeth Arweck is Senior Research Fellow in the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU) at the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of several book chapters and of Researching new religious movements in the West (Routledge 2007).Dr Stephen Bullivant is Senior Lect
What are Nonreligious People Like? Some Global Sociological, Anthropologcal, Cognitive Science and Historical Studies Scholastic Reader The book collects 7 research articles from a special issue of "Journal of Contemporary Religion" (Issue 1, 2012). It is supposed to be a global collection of research on variant demographics that are commonly perceived as nonreligious, however, the regions that get most of the focus are Britain, USA, and has one piece on India. It should not be surprising since mo
Recent publications include a number of co-authored articles (with Eleanor Nesbitt) and (co-edited) volumes, such as Religion and knowledge (with Mathew Guest, 2012), Exploring religion and the sacred in a media age (with Chris Deacy, 2009) and Reading religion in text and context (with Peter Collins, 2006). She is also an editor of Secularism and Nonreligion and features editor of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN). Her doctoral work concerned British non-religion and the social science of non-religion in general, topics which continue to be core research interests. She is the author of several book chapters and of Researching new religious movements in the West (Routledge 2007).Dr Stephen Bullivant is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at St Mary’s University College, Twickenha