Mediating Institutions Creating Relationships between Religion and an Urban World /

• Main Author: Torry, Malcolm (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Business.; Organization.; Planning.; Religion and sociology.; Business and Management.; Sociology of Religion.

This original book studies a wide variety of mediating institutions, both organizational and non-organizational, in workplaces, residential areas, and in wider society. Focusing upon institutions in the Thames Gateway and with case studies across south-east London, Europe and the USA, Meditating Ins...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Religion and society are institutional
• Chapter 2 Mediating institutions between religion and the workplace
• Chapter 3 Mediating institutions in residential communities in the Thames Gateway
• Chapter 4 Some more mediating institutions in residential communities
• Chapter 5 Mediating institutions between religion and civil society
• Chapter 6 Mediating institutions – a task for the Church
• Chapter 7 Signposts towards the City of God
• Postscript
• Appendix: Relationships and sexuality.