Overview
- Focuses on everyday realities and practices, rather than providing an exploration of theology or institutionalized faith
- Analyses and describes the role of religion in contemporary society, how people (inter)act and react with each other and society
- Approaches the topic from various disciplines: sociology, theology, history, communication; theoretical and methodological approaches, and uses case studies from diverse social contexts
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges (PSLRSC)
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About this book
This book highlights tensions and negotiating processes between modern society and conservative religious groups. Conservative religion and society have co-existed for at least a century in an increasingly pluralist society. Still, the right to religious freedom and tolerance clashes with certain expressions of religious exclusivity. In this book, scholars from different disciplines look at the various ways in which representatives of conservative religious faith live, practice, and formulate their religion in relation to a contemporary mainstream culture.
The studies included represent various settings with regard to time, religion and geography, and are presented in three thematic groups: culture, schooling and public life, and media. Taken together, the studies contribute to a more nuanced and diverse picture of conservative religious believers and their engagement with mainstream society. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of sociology of religion, church history and contemporary religion.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conservative Religion Confronting the Culture
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Conservative Religion, Schooling and Public Life
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Conservative Religion and Media
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stefan Gelfgren is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at Umeå University, Sweden.
Daniel Lindmark is Professor of Church History at Umeå University, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conservative Religion and Mainstream Culture
Book Subtitle: Opposition, Negotiation, and Adaptation
Editors: Stefan Gelfgren, Daniel Lindmark
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59381-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59380-3Published: 27 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59383-4Published: 27 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59381-0Published: 20 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-4390
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4404
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 266
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Culture, Religious Studies, general