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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465774403321

Autore

Percy Martyn

Titolo

The salt of the earth : religious resilience in a secular age / / Martyn Percy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2018

ISBN

1-4742-9355-7

1-4742-8154-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 p.)

Collana

Religious studies : Bloomsbury Academic collections

Disciplina

291.1/75

Soggetti

Religion and culture

Resilience (Personality trait) - Religious aspects - Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part I Church and Culture. 1. Resistance and Accommodation: Theology and Contemporary Culture ; 2. A Knowledge of Angles: How Spiritual Are the English? ; 3. Cultural History: The Revision of Secularization Theories ; 4. Church-State Relations in Britain: Transforming Culture ; 5. A Clash of Cultures: Church Autonomy and Human Rights -- Part II Christianity and Popular Culture. 6. The Church in the Market-Place: Advertising, Media and Religion ; 7. Shopping for God: Production, Consumption and Globalization ; 8. Leisure, Ecstasy and Identity: Football and Contemporary Religion ; 9. From Eternity to Here: Sin, Censorship and Society ; 10. Sympathy for the Devil: On Discerning the Demonic -- Part III Ministry and Mission in Contemporary Culture. 11. Pilgrimage and Place: The Journey Within ; 12. Religious Power: People, Politics and Prophecy ; 13. Care-Taking and Health in Contemporary Culture: Exploring the Vocational ; 14. The Gift of Authority: Of Ministry, Morals and Money ; 15. Christ and Culture: The Development of Doctrine and the Meaning of Mission -- Afterword: The Perennial Need for Religion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This is a sparkling collection of essays by one of Britain's best-known and acute commentators of the church scene and of contemporary religious life. Martyn Percy explores new liberalism, the churches and



human rights in the European Union, football and religion, pilgrimage, demonology, common spirituality, religious attitudes to nudity, and the relationship between religion and advertising. The argument running throughout this book is that despite claims-and the appearance-of increasing secularity, the influence of religious themes and values on our everyday life remains pervasive."--Bloomsbury Publishing.