Sociology of Seeking
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Catholicism
Christ Child
Christianity
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cultural secularism
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Georges De La Tour
German Sociological Association
history
Holy Mountain
icon
icons
interactionism
interactionist perspective
Lunatic Fringe
Magic Roundabout
Notre Dame Cathedral
Paul's Declaration
Paul’s Declaration
portents
Religio Laici
religious sociology
Richard III
secularisation
secularisation theory
secularism
social theory
sociology
sociology theology interdisciplinary study
Spiritual Capital
Surrogate Religions
Symbolic Revolution
theology
theology and culture
traces
Vatican II
Violates
Virtual Religion
Wandered
Wider Issue
Young Man
Zeitgeist
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- ISBN 9781032322803
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A response to the depletion of the rhetoric of sociology and the spiritual capital of theology, this volume explores the remains of Christianity that still lurk as portents in a progressively de-Christianised society seeking replacements for belief. With the sociologist set in the role of an oracle seeking traces of Christianity in a discipline in which the intrusion of theological understandings has become harder to resist, it offers a narrative of belief following the direction of an exemplary portent: the finger. Through the exploration of broad trends in culture and modern history, this study, informed by interactionist thought, examines both the place of sociology in Christian theology, and the failure of theology to connect to its surrounding culture, asking how the two disciplines might meld profitably together. As such, it will appeal to social theorists and theologians, as well as sociologists with interests in religion, culture and secularisation.
Kieran Flanagan is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of: Sociological Noir: Irruptions and the Darkness of Modernity (2017); Sociology in Theology: Reflexivity and Belief (2007); Seen and Unseen: Visual Culture, Sociology and Theology (2004); The Enchantment of Sociology: A Study of Theology and Culture (1996); Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentations of the Holy (1991); and co-editor with Peter C. Jupp of: Sociology of Spirituality (2007); Virtue Ethics and Sociology: Issues of Modernity and Religion (2001); and Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996).
