MODERNITIES, MEMORY AND MUTATIONS
an holistic, critical appreciation of Grace Davies achievement as a remarkable sociologist of religion and academic, [this book] helps us to see how and why Grace has played such an important part in the emergence of a new sociology of religion.
From the foreword by Linda Woodhead, University of Lancaster, UK
This book reviews many of the most important discussions in the sociology of religion in recent decades, and offers valuable new perspectives. Through the text you can hear Grace Davies quiet, non-polemical but distinct voice.
Pl Repstad, University of Agder, Norway
Grace Davie, one of the worlds most influential scholars in contemporary sociology of religion, has furthered a tradition developed by David Martin and others in comparative sociology of religion and modernity in European and international perspective. Davies writings on belief and belonging, particularly in a context outside active Church participation, have contributed important understandings of the cultural role of religion as memory and practice in contemporary European societies. Through her most recent work on new roles of religion in relation to the political, legal and welfare sectors of society, she has addressed debates on the resurgence of religion and the post-secular condition.
Modernities, Memory and Mutations presents an overview and critical engagement with contemporary themes in the sociology of religion which will inform current and forthcoming generations of scholars. Reflecting on how Grace Davies contributions have influenced their own work and wider debates in the field, leading international scholars engage with themes Davie has critically explored across religious studies and mainstream sociology evolving a new research agenda for sociology of religion.
Modernities, Memory and Mutations
Grace Davie and the Study of Religion
Edited by
ABBY DAY
University of Kent and Goldsmiths, University of London
MIA LVHEIM
University of Uppsala
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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Modernities, memory and mutations: Grace Davie and the study of religion / edited by
Abby Day and Mia Lvheim.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-3617-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-3155-9595-5 (ebook)
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1. Religion and sociology. 2. Davie, Grace. I. Day, Abby, 1956- editor.
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2015000520
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Contents
Abby Day and Mia Lvheim
Foreword by James A. Beckford
Danile Hervieu-Lger
Tuula Sakaranaho
Adam Dinham
Matthew Francis
Foreword by Nancy T. Ammerman
David Martin
Abby Day
Douglas J. Davies
Adam Possamai
Foreword by Rebecca Catto
Anders Bckstrm
Effie Fokas
Sylvia Collins-Mayo
Anne Birgitta Pessi
Grace Davie
Notes on Contributors
Nancy T. Ammerman is Professor of Sociology of Religion at Boston University and the author of many papers, books and chapters most recently Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life. Her previous research has included work on congregational life and on conservative religious movements.
Anders Bckstrm is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University. He has initiated major research projects, including: From State Church to Free Folk Church, Welfare and Religion in a European Perspective (WREP); Welfare and Values in Europe (WaVE) and The Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy which resulted in the Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre, a Centre of Excellence at Uppsala University.
James A. Beckford is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick. He has served as President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, the International Society for the Sociology of Religion and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. His main fields of research are religion in prisons, regulation and religion, and social theory and religion.
Rebecca Catto is Research Fellow at Coventry University. She is currently Convenor of the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group and co-editor of the Ashgate AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society series. Publications include What can we say about todays British religious young person? and Religion and Change in Modern Britain (with Linda Woodhead).
Sylvia Collins-Mayo is Associate Professor in Sociology at Kingston University. Her research interests focus on youth and religion with particular reference to the everyday faith of young people from Christian backgrounds. She is co-author of Making Sense of Generation Y, and The Faith of Generation Y, and co-editor of Religion and Youth. Current research interests include the role of faith in secular places of work and the spirituality and prayer practices of teenagers and young adults.
Douglas J. Davies is Durham Universitys Professor in the Study of Religion, Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and The Learned Society of Wales, Doctor of Letters of Oxford, and Honorary Doctor of Uppsala University. After studying anthropology and theology at Durham, and undertaking research at Oxfords Institute of Social Anthropology under Bryan Wilson, he taught at Nottingham University. His anthropological, sociological and theological work on Mormonism, Anglicanism, ritual-symbolism of death rites, emotions and meaning-making in salvation is extensive.
Abby Day is Reader in Race, Faith and Culture in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London and Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, Department of Religious Studies, University of Kent. She is Chair of the British Sociological Associations Sociology of Religion study group. Her most recent books are
