Religious Pluralisation and Institutional Change: The Case of the New Religious Scene in Germany.
Contrary to previous, largely quantitative, studies into the effects of religious pluralisation, this paper will focus on the qualitative changes induced by processes of pluralisation. Taking the German new religious scene as an example, it demonstrates how pluralisation of the supply structure has...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religion in Europe Vol. 1; no. 2; pp. 200 - 227 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
Jun2008
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