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  • Understanding Cultural Sociology

    by Dick Houtman ...
    Series series Understanding series
    This fascinating book discusses the particularities, pleasures and promises of a sociology that underscores the significance of culture as a vital dimension of social life. It advocates an intellectually open-minded cultural sociology that acknowledges how culture influences sociologists’ own work and urges a field traditionally dominated by qualitative methods to open up to experimental and ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science

    Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture

    by Dick Houtman ...
    Dick Houtman argues that neither authoritarianism nor libertarianism can be explained by class or economic background, but rather by position in the cultural domain-- what he calls cultural capital. Although he examines all of the statistics and arguments of the conventional approaches with care and concern, Houtman convincingly demonstrates that the conclusions drawn from earlier studies are ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Paradoxes of Individualization

    Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity

    by Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers, Willem de Koster ...
    Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a process of individualization is liberating selves from society so as to make them the authors of their personal biographies. The book adopts a cultural-sociological approach that firmly rejects such a notion of individualization as naïve. The process is instead conceptualized as an ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • The Shape of Spirituality

    The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation

    Edited by Dick Houtman, Galen Watts ...
    Winner, 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAround 20 percent of Americans fall into the category of “spiritual but not religious.” Yoga has become a ubiquitous pastime for middle-class Westerners. Mindfulness is increasingly incorporated into school curricula, sports programs, and even corporate culture. Hollywood icons and Silicon Valley trendsetters tout the benefits of a “spiritual” life. ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Science under Siege

    Contesting the Secular Religion of Scientism

    Edited by Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers, Rudi Laermans ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Identifying scientism as religion’s secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science. These controversies suggest that what we are witnessing today is not an increase in the authority of science at the cost of religion, but a dual decline in the authorities of religion and science alike. This entails an erosion of the legitimacy of universally ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity

    by Stef Aupers, Dick Houtman, Galen Watts ...
    Series series Elements in New Religious Movements
    Although new religious movements (NRMs) are characterized as diverse and unique, this Element analyzes the cultural logic underlying this apparent diversity from a sociological approach. Section 1 demonstrates that NRMs are substantially shaped by the Romantic counterculture emerging around the 1960s and its critique of churched religion, modern industries, science, and capitalism. Section 2 shows ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Belief without Borders

    Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious

    by Linda A. Mercadante ...
    Named A Best Spiritual Book of the Year by Spirituality & Practice The last twenty years have seen a dramatic increase in "nones": people who do not claim any religious affiliation. These "nones" now outnumber even the largest Protestant denominations in America. They are not to be confused with secularists, however, for many of them identify themselves as "spiritual but not religious" (SBNR). The ... Read more

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  • Why Study Religion?

    Understanding Humanity's Pursuit of the Divine

    by Terry Muck ...
    Why Studying Religion Matters in a Pluralistic ContextThis brief primer explains why Christian students should study religion, how they should go about it, and why it is important in our contemporary, pluralistic context. Senior religion scholar Terry Muck introduces the discipline and explains how it can be approached by Christian students. He explores the contemporary significance of studying ... Read more

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  • After World Religions

    Reconstructing Religious Studies

    by Christopher R Cotter, David G. Robertson ...
    Series series Religion in Culture
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  • An Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture

    by Stephen Fay, Liam Haydon ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Homi K. Bhabha’s 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters between the western colonial powers and the nations across the globe that they colonized. Colonization was not just an economic, military or political ... Read more

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