Faith in secular life / Martyn Percy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Percy, Martyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Implicit religion.

Faith.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The Lutterworth Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Faith in Secular Life finds signals of transcendence in the most unlikely places. The Very Revd. Prof. Martyn Percy tracks how quotidian 'Implicit Religion' (a term coined by Edward Bailey, 1935-2015) reveals sacred currents lying just beneath the surface of 'secular' life. Following Bailey, Percy holds that the lens of Implicit Religion is essentially 'bifocal' in nature. It allows simultaneous focus on elements in the foreground and aspects which lie at a greater distance. Observing immediate, ordinary human activity against the more distant horizon of 'secularisation', Bailey's bifocal aperture brought the two together and placed them in a single framework for discussion. However, whilst Implicit Religion was fundamentally about identifying people's commitments, Faith in Secular Life pursues the idea further to analyse specific areas of contemporary culture which would normally be seen as faithless. Individuals may be unconscious that their actions can be understood as 'religious', yet, Percy maintains, their participation remains saturated with sacredness and spirituality." --Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

Part one: Literature, music and film. God in Gatsby - a spiritual odyssey

Madonna (Like a Virgin)

Spartacus: Modelling rebellion in the church

WWBD? What would Barbie do?

The angel of the Lord and Gideon

Part two: Spirituality, space and place. The sublimated spirituality of soccer

Ideologies in religious advertising

Anglican cathedrals in a secular society: David Martin and the sociology of English religion

Sketching a shifting landscape: Reflections on emerging patterns of religion and spirituality among millennials

Dear Heart-Broken, Dear Confused: Agony aunts and problem pages as implicit religion

Part three: Religion in public life. Life, death, hope and food

Good grief: The other curve

Faith in politics

Halcyon daze? Nostalgia in the memory of the church

Education and/or training: The theological programming in the Church of England

Part four: The secular inside religion. Leadership in the Church of England: A deconstruction of normativity

Pathologising normativity, de-pathologising diversity

Leadership, class and control

Church leadership and management in an era of decline

Institutions and their leadership.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780718898236

0718898230

OCLC:

1440027670

Publisher Number:

90104472569

CIPO000326664