Religion in Modern Times – An Interpretive Anthology: Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World

This volume is the first to bring together a comprehensive selection of readings which illustrate and analyse religion's encounters with the forces of modernization - including nationalism, capitalism, colonialism, democracy, gender and identity politics.

Drawing on scholarly analysis, empirical research and vivid concrete examples, the book offers a picture of a religious world which is increasingly characterized by the coexistence of:

• Old faiths and new spiritualities


• A turn to tradition and a turn to experience


• Decline and revival


• Privatization and political militancy


• Tolerance and intolerance

Religion in Modern Times offers a new framework and language for making sense of religion today.