[PDF] Japanese Youth Confronts Religion eBook

Author : David C. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317194373

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Are Japanese people religious – and, if so, in what ways? David Lewis addresses this question from the perspective of ordinary Japanese people in the context of their life cycles, and explores why they engage in religious activities. He not only discusses how Japanese people engage in different religious practices as they encounter new events in their lives but also analyses the attitudes and motivations behind their behaviour. Activities such as fortune-telling, religious rites in the workplace, ancestral rites and visits to shrines and temples are actually engaged in by many people who view themselves as ‘non- religious’ but express their motivations in terms other than the conventional ‘religious’ ones. This book outlines the religious options available, and assesses why people choose particular religious activities at various times in their lives or in specific circumstances. The author challenges some widespread assumptions about religion in urban and industrial contexts and also shows how some of the underlying motivations behind Japanese behaviour are expressed both in religious and non-religious forms.

Author : Peter Bernard Clarke
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Cults
ISBN : 9781873410806

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Containing some 1500 entries, this new bibliography will be widely welcomed for its comprehensive brief, and for the sub-section profiling principal NRMs convering history, beliefs and practices, main publications, braches worldwide and membership.

Author : William H. Swatos
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0803946767

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In the 1960s many sociologists proclaimed traditional religion to be in its death throes. But, just as secularization gained nearly universal acceptance among scholars, religious resurgence burst forth from many directions - new religious movements and the growth of Islamic fundamentalism for example. In A Future for Religion?, contributors ask whether, if such dynamic forces are at work, is religion really dying? They discuss issues usually excluded from books on the sociology of religion - including religious experience, emotional renewal, religion and the body.

Author : Peter B Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134249780

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Containing some 1500 entries, this new bibliography will be widely welcomed for its comprehensive brief, and for the sub-section profiling principal NRMs convering history, beliefs and practices, main publications, braches worldwide and membership.