Focusing on the important relationship between the'sacred'and the'secular', this book
demonstrates that it is not paradoxical to think in terms of both secular and sacred or neither,
in different times and places. International experts from a range of disciplinary perspectives
draw on local, national, and international contexts to provide a fresh analytical approach to
understanding these two contested poles. Exploring such phenomena at an individual,
institutional, or theoretical level, each chapter contributes to the central message of the book …

As the title page reminds us, this is yet another volume emanating from the Religion and
Society Research programme which has invested in 75 research projects headed by Linda
Woodhead from Lancaster University. From a broadly sociological perspective, the collected
essays focus upon the spaces between the religious and the secular and different ways in
which this might be conceptualised. With an Introduction and 12 chapters I will attempt to
summarise the contents and to draw attention to some of the highlights. The book is divided …