Social Theory and ReligionCambridge University Press, 21. avg. 2003 Many aspects of religion are puzzling these days. This 2003 book looks at ways of improving our understanding of religious change by strengthening the links between social theory and the social scientific study of religion. It clarifies the social processes involved in constructing religion and non-religion in public and private life. Taking illustrations of the importance of these boundaries from studies of secularisation, religious diversity, globalisation, religious movements and self-identity, Beckford reviews social scientific knowledge about religion and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of a wide range of theoretical attempts to account for religious change and continuity. The discussion goes in two directions. The first is towards identifying ways in which studies of religion would benefit from taking better account of themes in recent social theory. The second is towards identifying reasons for social theorists to pay more attention to the findings of empirical investigations of religion. |
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... and encouragement from many people who have helped me in various ways to complete the project. First, my good friend in Chicago, Fritz Huchting, dignified it from the beginning with the title of ... the greatest debt of gratitude to Preface.
... and encouragement from many people who have helped me in various ways to complete the project. First, my good friend in Chicago, Fritz Huchting, dignified it from the beginning with the title of ... the greatest debt of gratitude to Preface.
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James A. Beckford. It seems to me that, since the end of the 1980s, the balance of social scientific evidence has confirmed my analysis. Indeed, the trend towards the deregulation of religion insome countries, disputes about what counts as ...
James A. Beckford. It seems to me that, since the end of the 1980s, the balance of social scientific evidence has confirmed my analysis. Indeed, the trend towards the deregulation of religion insome countries, disputes about what counts as ...
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James A. Beckford. separate spheres or domains and as if their task were to capture the differences between them in words and thereby to map the 'real' line of division. It makes no difference to my argument whethertheir aim isto ...
James A. Beckford. separate spheres or domains and as if their task were to capture the differences between them in words and thereby to map the 'real' line of division. It makes no difference to my argument whethertheir aim isto ...
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James A. Beckford. modernity. And, most importantly, the theory takes little account of the plentiful evidence that New Age forms of religion and spirituality, far from displacing more conventionalor modern forms,are merelyone small but ...
James A. Beckford. modernity. And, most importantly, the theory takes little account of the plentiful evidence that New Age forms of religion and spirituality, far from displacing more conventionalor modern forms,are merelyone small but ...
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James A. Beckford. scientific studies of religion. For, amid all the disputes about the validity of data, the reliability of measurements, the comparability of cases and the appropriateness of measures of statistical significancethere ...
James A. Beckford. scientific studies of religion. For, amid all the disputes about the validity of data, the reliability of measurements, the comparability of cases and the appropriateness of measures of statistical significancethere ...
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Secularisation 3 Thevagariesof religious pluralism | |
Socialtheory and religious movements | |
Constructing religion selfand society Notes | |
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