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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131388903321

Autore

Monnot Christophe <1978->

Titolo

Croire ensemble : analyse institutionnelle du paysage religieux en Suisse / / Christophe Monnot ; avec une postface de Mark Chaves ; [préface de Jean-Paul Williame et Jörg Stolz]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seismo, 2013

Zurich : , : Seismo, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

2883510601

9782883510609

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Terrains des sciences sociales

Disciplina

306.609494

Soggetti

Religion and sociology - Switzerland

Religious communities - Switzerland

Switzerland Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-282)

Sommario/riassunto

The study presented in this book for the first time in Switzerland offers a broad empirical and sociological perspective on local religious organizations. From this perspective, religion appears first, as already observed by Weber and Durkheim, through communities regardless of their various profiles. In Switzerland, 5,734 parishes and religious groups have been identified by a national census in 2008. The book underlines the institutional salience of historical churches (Reformed and Roman Catholic) but also the emerging religious plurality, particularly in urban areas. This study sheds a new light upon the effects of secularization (lower limbs and practice) and pluralisation (diversification of religious denominations and traditions) in the organizational field. The analysis of differences and similarities between religious traditions shows a social positioning of the local



groups according to the statutes acquired in history. The classical theories − e.g. about the relationship between social status of members and membership groups, types of religious authorities or differences between Church and Sect − are revisited, clarified or reformulated based on an original and representative quantitative data of the Swiss religious field.