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Auteur(s) : Thiessen, Joel (1981-....)
Titre(s) : The meaning of Sunday [Texte imprimé] : the practice of belief in a secular age / Joel Thiessen
Publication : Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015
Description matérielle : viii, 227 pages ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Fewer Canadians identify with a religion, believe in a god, or attend weekly religious
services than in past decades. What explains higher and lower levels of religiosity?
Is secularization a myth or reality? What impact does religiosity or secularity have
on a society's social and civil fabric? In The Meaning of Sunday, Joel Thiessen addresses
these questions by weaving together narratives gathered from interviews with various
members of the religious and secular communities. Exploring the meanings and motivations
behind people's religious beliefs and behaviours, the book features discussions with
three categories of people: those who attend religious services weekly, those who
attend services mainly for religious holidays and rites of passage, and those who
do not identify with any religious group and never attend religious services. Interview
responses show that religiosity levels correlate to one's personal experiences with
the supernatural, religious organizations, and their social ties to those who either
encourage or discourage religious identification, belief, or practice. Concluding
that the demand for religion is waning regardless of what religious groups include
in their programs, Thiessen suggests that, apart from some initial social and civic
concern, Canadian society may be just fine without it. Testing two dominant theories
in the sociology of religion--secularization and rational choice theory--The Meaning
of Sunday provides in-depth qualitative research on people's "lived religion" and
contributes to a major ongoing debate concerning the nature and importance of religion
in contemporary society."
Issued also in electronic format.
Sujet(s) : Sociologie religieuse -- Canada
Sécularisation (théologie) -- Canada
Choix rationnels, Théorie des
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780773546264 (bound). - ISBN 077354626X (bound). - ISBN 9780773546271 (paperback).
- ISBN 0773546278 (paperback)
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