04209cam a2200661Ii 4500 ocn910775892 OCoLC 20200709060417.0 m d cr un||||||||| 150601s2015 quc ob 001 0 eng NLC eng rda NLC OCLCO OCLCF N$T YDXCP CELBN REB EBLCP 20159039894 940513056 9780773598027 electronic bk. 0773598022 electronic bk. 9780773598034 electronic bk. 0773598030 electronic bk. 9780773546264 9780773546271 (OCoLC)910775892 (OCoLC)940513056 n-cn--- BL2530.C2 T55 2015 POL 038000 bisacsh SOC 002010 bisacsh SOC 022000 bisacsh 306.6/0971 23 MAIN Thiessen, Joel, author. The meaning of Sunday : the practice of belief in a secular age / Joel Thiessen. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 8, 2015) Includes bibliographical references and index. "Fewer Canadians identify with a religion, believe in a god, or attend weekly religious services than in past decades. What explains higher and lower levels of religiosity? Is secularization a myth or reality? What impact does religiosity or secularity have on a society's social and civil fabric? In The Meaning of Sunday, Joel Thiessen addresses these questions by weaving together narratives gathered from interviews with various members of the religious and secular communities. Exploring the meanings and motivations behind people's religious beliefs and behaviours, the book features discussions with three categories of people: those who attend religious services weekly, those who attend services mainly for religious holidays and rites of passage, and those who do not identify with any religious group and never attend religious services. Interview responses show that religiosity levels correlate to one's personal experiences with the supernatural, religious organizations, and their social ties to those who either encourage or discourage religious identification, belief, or practice. Concluding that the demand for religion is waning regardless of what religious groups include in their programs, Thiessen suggests that, apart from some initial social and civic concern, Canadian society may be just fine without it. Testing two dominant theories in the sociology of religion--secularization and rational choice theory--The Meaning of Sunday provides in-depth qualitative research on people's "lived religion" and contributes to a major ongoing debate concerning the nature and importance of religion in contemporary society."-- Provided by publisher. Religion and sociology Canada. Secularization Canada. Rational choice theory. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture bisacsh Rational choice theory. fast (OCoLC)fst01090260 Religion and sociology. fast (OCoLC)fst01093858 Secularization. fast (OCoLC)fst01110738 Canada. fast (OCoLC)fst01204310 Electronic books. Electronic books. Print version: Thiessen, Joel The Meaning of Sunday Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press,c2015 9780773546264 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1076894 EBSCOhost EBSC 1076894 YBP Library Services YANK 12635008 Canadian Electronic Library CELB 450389 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL4180594 92 N$T 56529 56529