‘Phoenix from the Ashes’: Religious Communities Arising from Globalization

When in the 1960s religious congregations were suffering from diminishing membership, the sociology of religion turned away from the study of organized religion in order to study private religiosity, even though new social forms of religion were emerging. The article addresses first the impact of gl...

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Main Author: Kippenberg, Hans G. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2013, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 143-174
Further subjects:B Congregation Abrahamic religions privatization de-privatization globalization Jürgen Habermas José Casanova Max Weber ethics of brotherliness
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