Religion in Western Society |
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| Author:
| Hunt, Stephen J. |
| Series title: | Sociology for a Changing World Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-333-94592-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2001 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $92.95 |
Book Description:
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This book offers a comprehensive account of religion in Western societies, focusing particularly on Western Europe and North America but taking in developments elsewhere around the globe as appropriate. Offering a guide to the principal forms of religion in the West - whether mainline religion, sects or cults, popular superstition or religious fundamentalism - it calls upon both empirical work and theoretical debates to examine beliefs, practices, patterns of organization and significant trends.
This book offers a comprehensive account of religion in Western societies, focusing particularly on Western Europe and North America but taking in developments elsewhere around the globe as appropriate. Offering a guide to the principal forms of religion in the West - whether mainline religion, sects or cults, popular superstition or religious fundamentalism - it calls upon both empirical work and theoretical debates to examine beliefs, practices, patterns of organization and significant trends.