Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y Adam Possamai Readers and students from generations X and Y are involved in consumer culture, get part of their knowledge through popular culture and/or the Internet, and are more practical than theoretical. This book on the sociology of religion straddles the intersection between consumer culture, cyber-culture and popular culture, and focuses on the need of these generations. [...] […] This narrative device is a key approach to bringing readers and students to the heart of the problem and to explore relevant sociological concepts such as secularization and the multiple modernization thesis, re-enchantment, the " McDonaldization" of society, and the easternization of the west; while addressing contemporary phenomenon within, for example, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, New Age, Scientology, and Witchcraft groups both online and off line. It also addresses new religious phenomena such as the mixing of religion and popular culture on the Internet as found in new groups such as Jediism and Matrixism. […] Adam Possamai is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Western Sydney. He is the author of Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament (2005), In Search of New Age Spiritualities (2005) and Perles Noires (2005), a collection of short stories in French. […]