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Stephen Hunt
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Contemporary religion : changing definitions -- Postmodernist perspectives : the yet but not yet -- Rational choice theory and its discontents -- The context of everyday religion -- Demographic variables : continuity and change -- From 'church' to 'choice' : transformations in contemporary Christianity -- Faiths of certainty : fundamentalism and the religions of ethnic minorities -- The rise and fall of the new religious movements -- The New Age, self-spiritualities, and quasi-religions