UID:
almahu_9949865525902882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781315463643
,
1315463644
,
9781315463650
,
1315463652
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9781315463636
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1315463636
Series Statement:
Morality, society and culture
Content:
This book explores 'irruptions' which disturb modernity from without: fragments or deposits of history that have spectral or noir properties, whether ruins, collective memories, or the dark Gothic or the Satanic as manifested in culture. The study investigates what irrupts from these depths to unsettle our understanding of modernity so as to reveal its theological roots. A ground-breaking and extensive work, Sociological Noir explores literature, history and theology to re-cast the sociological imagination in ways that inspire reflection on new configurations in modernity. As such, it will have wide-spread appeal to sociologists and social theorists with interests in religion, theology and debates on postsecularism and culture. --
Note:
Introduction -- A sociology of gloom: initial forebodings -- Collective memory: remembrance and the constitution of images -- Ruins: irruptions in the fragments -- Dark gothic: life in the shade -- Satan: modernity's imaginary friend -- Sociology, sin and expiation -- Sociodicy or theodicy? A matter of sociological choice -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Flanagan, Kieran, 1944- Sociological noir. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017 ISBN 9781138206915
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315463650
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