While religious forces are powerful in numerous societies, they have little or no significance for wide swaths of public or private life in other places. This book considers ...

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Most of the chapters in this volume were contributed to a symposium on the Changing Face of Religion which formed part of the World Congress of Sociology in New Delhi, India, 1986.

"The book shows how rapid social change gives rise to novel religious interpretations and how new religious movements, in turn, try to influence the process of change. This ...

How secular is contemporary society? Are pockets of sectarianism embedded in societies of developed countries? This timely book examines the interweaving of politics and ...

There are many different ways in which minority religions and counselling may interact. In some cases there can be antagonism between counselling services and minority ...