Franco Garelli

Religion Italian Style

Continuities and Changes in a Catholic Country

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the relationship between religion and society in Italy has unique characteristics when compared with what is happening in other European Catholic Countries. Exploring key topics and religious trends which question how the population feel - from the laity and the role of religions in the public sphere, to moral debates, forms of religious pluralism, and new spiritualities - Garelli questions how intricately religion is interwoven with the nation's fabric and the dynamics of the whole society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781472436443
• ISBN-10: 147243644X
• Artikelnr.: 44802214

Autorenporträt

Franco Garelli is Full Professor of Sociology of Culture and Sociology of Religion at the University of Turin, where he is the Director of the Department 'Culture, Politics and Society'. Previously, he served for six years as Dean of the Political Sciences Faculty at the same University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the Italian way to religious modernity
From certain faith to uncertain faith: transformations of belief
Religious experience and religious life
Highs and lows of religious experience
Italians and the Church: near and far
The god of small things? Between Catholicism and alternative spiritualities
The Italian approach to a secular society
Religiosity in politics and in ethics
An increasingly plural divinity
Methodological appendix
Bibliography
Index.