The secular quest for meaning in life : Denton papers in implicit religion

Foreword by Ninian Smart i Preface iii Acknowledgements v Introduction The Notion of Implicit Religion: what it means, and does not mean Edward Bailey, Visiting Professor in Implicit Religion, Middlesex University 1 Part I The Conceptual Position of Implicit Religion 1 The Secular Practice as Implicit Religion Martin Goodridge, School of Business & Social Studies, Bradford 15 2 The Metaphysics of Secular Institutions Peter McCaffery, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen 35 3 The Sacred as Surrogate: notes on implicit a-religion N J Demerath III, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts 55 Commentary 67 4 Ethnic Jokes: implicit religious values and implicit religious identity Christie Davies, Department of Sociology, University of Reading 71 5 Diffused Religion: theory and practice Roberto Cipriani, Department of Sociology, University of Rome 87 6 Charisma Today Meerten ter Borg, Department of Theology, University of Leiden 105 Commentary 119 7 The Experience of Transcendence in Contemporary Culture Alistair Kee, Department of Religious Studies, University of Glasgow 121 8 Epiphany and Apocalypse in the Post Modern David Lyon, Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Kingston 137 9 On the Possibility of Naturalistic Religions Vasilios N Makrides, Department of Education, University of Thessaly 149 Commentary 175 10 The Centrality of the Concept of Implicit Religion for Religious Studies John Badertscher, University of Winnipeg 177 11 The Priority of the Holy: some remarks on the distinction between the sacred and the holy Wilhelm Dupre, University of Nijmegen 201 12 Implicit Religion: ineffability Paul Heelas, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University 215 Commentary 233 Part II Some Empirical Applications of the Concept of Implicit Religion 13 Implicit Religion: the hospice experience Derek Murray, St Colomba's Hospice, Edinburgh 237 14 Lapidary Texts: Europe's War Memorials - a liturgy for heroes Jon Davies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 251 15 Religion in the Capital City Area of Finland Tapio Lampinen, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki 259 16 Anti-Satanism as a Social Movement William H Swatos Jr, Association for Sociology of Religion, Florida 269 Commentary 291

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