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Decolonizing European sociology : transdisciplinary approaches
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ISBN: 9780754678724 0754678725 9780754697237 0754697231 1282572385 9786612572388 1317153758 1317153766 9781282572386 9781317153764 9781317153757 6612572388 9781315576190 9781317153740 9781138249714 1315576198 Year: 2010 Publisher: Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around key sociological concepts and themes, this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of sociology through an assessment of the new theoretical developments.


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Religion in the 21st century : challenges and transformations
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ISBN: 9781409403982 140940398X 9781409403999 1409403998 9781315604947 9781317067498 9781317067504 9781138268173 Year: 2010 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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In spite of the debate about secularization or de-secularization, the existential-bodily need for religion is basically the same as always. What have been changed are the horizons within which religions are interpreted and the relationships within which religions are integrated. This book explores how religions continue to challenge secular democracy and science, and how religions are themselves being challenged by secular values and practices. All traditions - whether religious or secular - experience a struggle over authority, and this struggle seems to intensify with globalisation, as it ha


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The Oxford handbook of the welfare state
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ISBN: 9780199650514 9780199579396 0199579393 0199650519 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This title is an authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state.

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