Author: Fenn, Richard K.
Title: Beyond Idols: The Shape of a Secular Society
Description: Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. orig.boards. 24x15cm, (6), 196 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Idols, Idolatry & Unnessary Suffering; Starting on the Path to Secularity: The Agony of the Possible; Heroes, Charismatic Figures & Celebrities as Cultural Idols; Brotherhoods, Sisterhoods & Secularization: Creativity, Secularity, & the Creation of Space for the Present Generation;Toward a Theory of Society without Idols: From Civil Religion to Public Religiosity; Stifling the Sociological Imagination; Ambiguity, Controversy & the Limits of Language as the Bearer of the Sacred; Beyond Idolatry: Religionless Christianity.

Keywords: Sociology of Religion, Civil Religion, United States, Secular Society, Secularism, , , ,