Is God Back?

Titus Hjelm is Lecturer in Finnish Society and Culture at University College London, UK.

• 1. Is God Back? Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion , Titus Hjelm (UCL, UK)Part I: Conceptualizing Public Religion2. Studying Public Religions: Visibility, Authority and the Public/Private Distinction, Marta Axner (Uppsala University, Sweden) 3. Conceptualizing the Public in Mediatized Religion, Mia Löveheim (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Alf Linderman (Uppsala Universitym, Sweden)4. Religious Cleavages and National Identity in European Civil Societies, Annette Schnabel (Bergische Universität Wuppertal,Germany)5. Illiberal Secularism? Pro-Faith Discourse in the United Kingdom, Steven Kettell (University of Warwick, UK)6. Negotiating the Public and Private in Everyday Evangelicalism, Anna Strhan (University ofKent, UK)7. The Gods Are Back: Nationalism and Transnationalism in Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Groups in Europe, Kathryn Rountree (Massey University, New Zealand)Part II: Rethinking the Religion-State Relationship8. Religion and the State in the 21st Century:the Alternative between Laicité and Religious Freedom, Luca Diotallevi (University of Rome TRE)9. The Sacred State: Religion, Ritual and Power in the United Kingdom, Norman Bonney (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)10. Social Class and Christianity: Imagining Sovereignty and Scottish Independence, Paul Gilfillian (Queen Margaret University, UK)11. National Piety: Religious Equality, Freedom of Religion and National Identity in Finnish Political Discourse, Titus Hjelm (UCL, UK)12. Religion, Democracy and the Challenge of the Arab Spring, Ian Morrison (American University in Cairo, Egypt)Part III:Religion and Social Action13. Social Welfare Provision and Islamic Social Movements in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): A Viable Form of Social Action?, Rana Jawad (University of Bath, UK)14. Understanding Definitions and Experiences of Care and Caring amongst Hindu and Muslim Older People: The Role of Ethnicity and Religion, Akile Ahmet (Brunel University London, UK) and Christina Victor (Brunel University London, UK)15. Religion and Transnational Roma Mobilization: From Local Religious Participation to Transnational Social Activism in the Case of the Finnish Roma, Raluca Bianca Roman (University of St Andrews, UK)16. Finding God in the Process: Recovery from Addiction in Sarajevo, Eleanor Ryan-Saha (Durham University, UK)BibliographyIndex

[I]t is [the] eclecticism that is one of the main appeals of the book. There is something to interest everyone, and younger researchers or those new to the field of sociology of religion will find it particularly helpful.