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The study presented in this book for the first time in Switzerland offers a broad empirical and sociological perspective on local religious organizations. From this perspective, religion appears first, as already observed by Weber and Durkheim, through communities regardless of their various profiles. In Switzerland, 5,734 parishes and religious groups have been identified by a national census in 2008. The book underlines the institutional salience of historical churches (Reformed and Roman Catholic) but also the emerging religious plurality, particularly in urban areas. This study sheds a new light upon the effects of secularization (lower limbs and practice) and pluralisation (diversification of religious denominations and traditions) in the organizational field. The analysis of differences and similarities between religious traditions shows a social positioning of the local groups according to the statutes acquired in history. The classical theories − e.g. about the relationship between social status of members and membership groups, types of religious authorities or differences between Church and Sect − are revisited, clarified or reformulated based on an original and representative quantitative data of the Swiss religious field.

Religion and sociology --- Religious communities --- sociology --- switzerland --- religious landscape --- religion --- institutional analysis --- Switzerland --- Religious life and customs.

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The study presented in this book for the first time in Switzerland offers a broad empirical and sociological perspective on local religious organizations. From this perspective, religion appears first, as already observed by Weber and Durkheim, through communities regardless of their various profiles. In Switzerland, 5,734 parishes and religious groups have been identified by a national census in 2008. The book underlines the institutional salience of historical churches (Reformed and Roman Catholic) but also the emerging religious plurality, particularly in urban areas. This study sheds a new light upon the effects of secularization (lower limbs and practice) and pluralisation (diversification of religious denominations and traditions) in the organizational field. The analysis of differences and similarities between religious traditions shows a social positioning of the local groups according to the statutes acquired in history. The classical theories − e.g. about the relationship between social status of members and membership groups, types of religious authorities or differences between Church and Sect − are revisited, clarified or reformulated based on an original and representative quantitative data of the Swiss religious field.

Religion and sociology --- Religious communities --- Switzerland --- Religious life and customs. --- sociology --- switzerland --- religious landscape --- religion --- institutional analysis

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Evangelicalism --- Church renewal --- traditional religion --- America's religious landscape --- evangelical seeker churches --- spiritual fulfilllment --- rituals --- denominational functions --- American Evangelical Protestantism --- Willow Creek Association --- Willow Creek Community Church --- Chicago

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the UK --- religious landscape --- places of worship --- Inter-faith activity --- Baha'i --- Buddhism --- Christianity --- Hinduism --- Jainism --- Judaism --- Islam --- Sikhism --- Zoroastrianism --- religious communities --- religious groups

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New Era - New Religions examines new forms of religion in Brazil. To better understand the changing face of 21st Century religion, New Era - New Religions situates the rise of new era religiosity within the broader context of late-modern society and its ongoing transformation.

Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- History --- Brazil --- Religion. --- 299.6*8 --- 299 --- 299 Autres religions --- Autres religions --- 299.6*8 Godsdiensten van de zwarten in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika. Voodoo --- Godsdiensten van de zwarten in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika. Voodoo --- religion --- religious landscape --- religous pluralism --- religious diversity --- neo-esoteric religiosity --- Gnosis --- new gnosis --- New Era discourse