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Christian Identity between Secularity and Plurality deals with the challenges presented to Christian identity by major developments in the critical consciosness of contempoary believers. The first half of the book proposes that from the fact of our belonging naturally in the world, there must be an irreducibly secular dimension of being human. The question is whether this this must be understood according to the claims of modern secularism or intead by drawing on ...
In the backdrop of the framework of sociological theories of secularization and institutionalization, this book examines the recent trends in Indian Christianity. Discussing the sociological perspectives on how the processes of modernization and globalization impact religious belief and practice in the world today, it analyses the internal dynamics of institutionalized religions.
Further presenting sociological analysis of Pentecostal sects, it describes in ...