Coming Together/Coming Apart: Religion, Community and Modernity

Coming Together/Coming Apart: Religion, Community and Modernity
ISBN-10
1136661069
ISBN-13
9781136661068
Category
Religion
Pages
204
Language
English
Published
2014-01-02
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Elizabeth Bounds

Description

The idea of "community" is increasingly vital to our individual and social well-being. Yet at the same time, our ordinary communal relations are being eroded by increased social and geographical mobility, lost traditions, and the growing pluralism of society. Examining this renewed desire for community, Coming Together/Coming Apart locates the current problems of society in the conditions of modern capitalism. Arising out of a common matrix of a world in crisis, contemporary religious, social and feminist discussions of community compose an ideological struggle over the reformation of society.

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