دانلود کتاب The Cultivation of Conformity: Towards a General Theory of Internal Secularisation

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Introduction
The Quakers
The outline of the book
Part I. Theoretical context: the conundrum facing religious groups
Part II. Theoretical complexities: religion and ‘the world’
Part III. New theory: a future of religiosity
Acknowledgements
PART I: Theoretical context: the conundrum facing religious groups
1. Organisational types and the inclination to conform
Church and sect
Types of sect
Other typologies
Chapter summary
2. Secularisation, secularism, rights and recruitment
Secularisation
Secularism and the nation-state
Section summary
Religious recruitment
The conundrum facing religious group in liberal democracies
Chapter summary
Note
PART II: Theoretical complexities: religion and ‘the world’
3. The history of the hedge
Sectarian separatism
The hedge
The challenge of the second generation
Nineteenth-century reforms
Chapter summary
4. Quakers as citizens and outlaws
Quakers as sect and denomination
Framing Quakerism in other typologies
Quaker organisational life and citizenship
War
Patterns of institutional assimilation
Chapter summary
Note
5. Modelling turbulence
Dynamic systems of flow
Cultural flows
Applying flow and turbulence to religious groups
Chapter summary
PART III: New theory: a future of religiosity
6. Quaker culture and non-doctrinal assimilation
The Liberal project and the primacy of experience
Diversity and post-Christianity, the marginalisation of belief and the liberal belief culture
Conformity and the behavioural creed
The Quaker double-culture
The culture of silence and the potential for heteropraxis
The prescription of seeking: the absolute perhaps
Shifting markers of Quakerism
The curiously compelling nature of non-doctrinal religion: Quakers and secularisation
Chapter summary
Notes
7. Internal secularisation: elements and agency
Internal secularisation
Organisational and popular religion
Linguistic culture
Agency and accommodation
Chapter summary
References
Index