Public Religions in the Modern World

Klappentext Acknowledgements 1: Secularization, Enlightenment, and Modern Religion 2: Private and Public Religions 3: Spain: From State Church to Disestablishment 4: Poland: From Church of the Nation to Civil Society 5: Brazil: From From Oligarchie Church to People's Church 6: Evangelical Protestantism: From Civil Religion to Fundamentalist Sect to New Christian Right 7: Catholicism in the United States: From Private to Public Denomination 8: The Deprivatization of Modern Religion Notes Index Zusammenfassung In this reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity! Casanova surveys the roles that religions play in the public sphere of modern societies. He looks at five cases from two religious traditions (Catholicism and Protestantism) in four countries (Spain! Poland! Brazil! USA).

Product details

• Authors: Jose Casanova, Casanova Jose, Jose Casonova
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1994
• EAN: 9780226095356
• ISBN: 978-0-226-09535-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Anthropologie, USA, Brasilien, Polen, Spanien, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen, Spain, Brazil, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Poland, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, United States of America, USA, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches