Prologue 1. Prophets and oracles: Zeitgeist and a sociology of indeterminacy 2. Change and decay: Missing something missing 3. Religion: A concept of no fixed abode 4. Images and icons: The ocular dilemmas of the state 5. The finger: A portent of sociological deliverance Epilogue
Biography
Kieran Flanagan is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of: Sociological Noir: Irruptions and the Darkness of Modernity (2017); Sociology in Theology: Reflexivity and Belief (2007); Seen and Unseen: Visual Culture, Sociology and Theology (2004); The Enchantment of Sociology: A Study of Theology and Culture (1996); Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentations of the Holy (1991); and co-editor with Peter C. Jupp of: Sociology of Spirituality (2007); Virtue Ethics and Sociology: Issues of Modernity and Religion (2001); and Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (1996).
“Much like Simmel, Flanagan moves sociology back to humanity […]. In consequence, at this moment in time, he offers us a most needed humane, that is theological, sociology.” - Michał Łuczewski, Journal of Contemporary Religion
