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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Percy, Martyn, author.

Series:

Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections

Religious studies : Bloomsbury Academic collections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and culture.

Resilience (Personality trait)--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Resilience (Personality trait).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474293556

1474293557

9781474281546

1474281540

OCLC:

957700883