1st Edition
Faith without Dogma Place of Religion in Postmodern Societies
By Franco Ferrarotti
Copyright 1993
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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We live in a time of high Church membership, but low Church attendance. Franco Ferrarotti, arguably the most important sociologist of religion alive, captures the source of this paradox In the title of his new book, Faith without Dogma . For it is belief that propels membership, while the absence of dogma results in a reticence to accept hierarchical direction from above or beyond. Basing much... Read more
Preface to the American Edition, Preface to the First Edition, Preface to the Second Edition, 1. Toward the End of Constantinian Christendom, 2. The Neo-Constantinian Temptation, 3. The Triumph of Science and Its Limitations, 4. Secularization as a Problem: The Reenchanted Disenchantment, 5. ‘Lay Religion’ in Dynamic Societies, 6. The Satanic Ambiguity of the Sacred, 7. Ecumenical Prayer, 8. Postscript, Index
Biography
Franco Ferrarotti is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Rome. Among his other works are Il paradosso del sacro; Una teologia per atei; and articles on the sociology of religion in Social Forces and Social Research.
