The monograph Sociology of the Sacred: Religion, Embodiment and Social Change, by Chris Shilling and Philip A Mellor, has just been contracted for translation into Arabic.
This book explores the relationship between religion and secularization in the contemporary global era. In so doing, it seeks to advance sociological debates about how an increasing range of phenomena have come to be constructed and experienced as sacred, or extraordinary, and thereby contain the potential to shape social action in significant ways. It is published by Sage Press as part of the Theory, Culture and Society series and has received praise from fellow professionals for being inspiring, novel and ambitious.
