New Religious and Spiritual Movements: Reflexivity, Modernity, and Digital Faith

This book offers a major rethinking of secularisation and a defining sociological account of religion in the digital age. Based on the author’s ESRC-funded PhD and developed over two decades of research and theoretical refinement, the book argues that modernity does not eliminate religion but reorganises it. Rather than treating spirituality as a residue of tradition or a symptom of fragmentation, it demonstrates how religious meaning is reflexively reconstructed under conditions of globali...