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This chapter provides a brief discussion of identity, focusing on the ideas of theorists such as Alberto Melucci, Zygmunt Bauman and Christian sociologists in the context of some aspects of postmodernity. Ideals and values that are oppositional or challenging to the Church are identified and discussed with reference to post-modernity or liquid modernity. There is a short description of the importance of sociology to this study.
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Baillie, S.M. (2008). Concepts of Identity. In: Presbyterians in Ireland. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230593503_2
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