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by Kees De Groot (Author)
This book develops a fresh way to look at religion in late modernity and produces new questions for theological and sociological debate. The metaphor of liquidation provides an alternative to approaches that merely perceive the decline of religion or a spiritual revolution.
Author Biography
Kees de Groot is Professor of Worldviews and Public Mental Health and Lecturer at the department of Practical Theology and Religious Studies at Tilburg University. He has studied sociology at the University of Amsterdam, wrote a doctoral dissertation on religion and mental health care at Leiden University (1995), and studied theology at Tilburg University. He has contributed to various volumes in and on sociology of religion, and has published on Zygmunt Bauman, Catholicism, theatre, comics and chaplaincy in the International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, Social Compass, and Implicit Religion. He is member of the council of the International Society for Sociology of Religion.
