This book brings together over 300 important readings on religion in modern times, offering a new framework and language for making sense of religion today.
About the Author
Linda Woodhead is Lecturer in Christian Studies at Lancaster University. Until recently she was Editor of Studies in Christian Ethics, and she is currently Review Editor of Modern Believing and a co-editor of Cultural Values (Blackwell Publishers).
Paul Heelas is Professor of Religion and Modernity at Lancaster University. He is the author of The New Age Movement (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) and editor of Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity (Blackwell Publishers, 1998).
Features
* Includes over 300 readings looking at religion's encounter with the forces of modernization. * Takes a global approach. * Explores the opposing dynamics which characterise religion in our times.
