Sacred and Secular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred and Secular write by Pippa Norris. This book was released on 2011-10-17. Sacred and Secular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before. This second edition expands the theory and provides new and updated evidence from a broad perspective and in a wide range of countries. This confirms that religiosity persists most strongly among vulnerable populations, especially in poorer nations and in failed states. Conversely, a systematic erosion of religious practices, values and beliefs has occurred among the more prosperous strata in rich nations.
The Sacred Secular
The Sacred Secular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sacred Secular write by Dottie Escobedo-Frank. This book was released on 2016-10-18. The Sacred Secular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Sacred Secular examines cultural spaces where people are experiencing something sacred. These places are not in the church. They’re in yoga studios, neighborhood potlucks, and TED Talks. Dottie Escobedo-Frank and Rob Rynders see lessons for the church in these spaces. They see new ways we can convey to people that the church is uniquely sacred and significant and that Jesus is for them. These glimpses into the sacred-secular will inspire creative church leaders to set aside their assumptions about what church looks like. The Sacred Secular nurtures empowerment, creativity, spiritual movement, and the courage to embody the sacredness and substance of our faith. “Many of us in the church (including clergy) feel we have more in common with the ‘spiritual but not religious’ than we have with lots of church folks these days. We are just as spiritually hungry and thirsty as ever, but we’re open to finding God in surprising places and spaces . . . including ‘secular’ ones. This beautifully written book is all about that phenomenon. I think you’re going to love it.” —Brian D. McLaren, author/speaker, brianmclaren.net “Be prepared to hear contemporary stories akin to the Apostle Peter discovering God in an ‘outsider’—Cornelius—in twenty-first–century urban America. This book is a jewel from two missional church practitioners in The United Methodist Church. It offers wisdom, vision, creativity, and humility that will mark the gospel-bearing church of the future. I highly recommend The Sacred Secular to pastors, church planters, and laity who want their congregations to know how to develop culturally connected faith communities in our rapidly changing world.” —Elaine A. Heath, Dean, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, NC
The Secular Sacred
The Secular Sacred - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secular Sacred write by Markus Balkenhol. This book was released on 2020-09-01. The Secular Sacred available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do religious emotions and national sentiment become entangled across the world? In exploring this theme, The Secular Sacred focuses on diverse topics such as the dynamic roles of Carnival in Brazil, the public contestation of ritual in Northern Nigeria, and the culturalization of secular tolerance in the Netherlands. The contributions focus on the ways in which sacrality and secularity mutually inform, enforce, and spill over into each other. The case studies offer a bottom-up, practice-oriented approach in which the authors are wary to use categories of religion and secular as neutral descriptive terms. The Secular Sacred will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, political scientists, and social psychologists, as well as students and scholars of cultural studies and semiotics. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Social Identities Between the Sacred and the Secular
Social Identities Between the Sacred and the Secular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Identities Between the Sacred and the Secular write by Dr Abby Day. This book was released on 2013-08-28. Social Identities Between the Sacred and the Secular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the important relationship between the 'sacred' and the 'secular', this book demonstrates that it is not paradoxical to think in terms of both secular and sacred or neither, in different times and places. International experts from a range of disciplinary perspectives draw on local, national, and international contexts to provide a fresh analytical approach to understanding these two contested poles. Exploring such phenomena at an individual, institutional, or theoretical level, each chapter contributes to the central message of the book - that the ‘in between’ is real, embodied and experienced every day and informs, and is informed by, intersecting social identities. Social Identities between the Sacred and the Secular provides an essential resource for continued research into these concepts, challenging us to re-think where the boundaries of sacred and secular lie and what may lie between.
Sacred and Secular Scriptures
Sacred and Secular Scriptures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred and Secular Scriptures write by Nicholas Boyle. This book was released on 2005. Sacred and Secular Scriptures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Boyle examines influential readings on the Bible as literature--notably Herder, Schleiermacher, Hegel and Levinas--and then applies them to literary writings.
