Religion, Secularization and Social Change in Wales - Congregational Studies in a Post-Christian Society

Klappentext This comprehensive account of social and religious change in contemporary Wales combines theory and fieldwork with a deep sense of the historical dimensions of these changes and their implications for the future of religious institutions operating within a post-Christian society. Zusammenfassung This book addresses the marked decline of religious practice and subsequent eclipse of the social significance of religious institutions in contemporary Wales from a sociological perspective.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Paul Chambers
• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.01.2005
• EAN: 9780708318843
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-1884-3
• Seiten: 256
• Serien: Politics and Society in Wales; Politics & Society in Wales; Politics and Society in Wales
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Religion, Post, Wales, Change, Society, European History, Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, CHRISTIAN, Social, Society & culture: general, Religion & beliefs, Secularization, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Congregational