Religion and the Individual: Belief, Practice, IdentityAbby Day The focus of the 2006 British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group conference at the University of Manchester was 'Religion and the Individual', chosen to provoke dialogue between psychologists and sociologists of religion. This volume contains papers presented at the conference. |
Contents
A Theory for Religion | 7 |
Women Making Meaning through | 19 |
Young Peoples Spirituality and the Meaning of Prayer | 33 |
Who are the Believers in Religion in China? | 47 |
Gathered Wisdom from Exemplar Muslim | 79 |
Autonomous Conformism the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Protestantism | 95 |
Social vs Spiritual Capital in Explaining Philanthropic Giving in | 111 |
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