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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... boundaries from studies of secularisation, religious diversity, globalisation, religious movements and selfidentity, JamesA.Beckford reviews the current state ofsocial scientific knowledge about religion. Healso assesses the strengths ...
... boundaries from studies of secularisation, religious diversity, globalisation, religious movements and selfidentity, JamesA.Beckford reviews the current state ofsocial scientific knowledge about religion. Healso assesses the strengths ...
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... boundary between thesetwo categoriesis stakedout, defended, deployed, attacked,smudged, redefinedor even dissolved.Itis a boundary zone that isheavily, perhaps essentially, contested. I find itstrange that social scientistshave shown ...
... boundary between thesetwo categoriesis stakedout, defended, deployed, attacked,smudged, redefinedor even dissolved.Itis a boundary zone that isheavily, perhaps essentially, contested. I find itstrange that social scientistshave shown ...
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... boundaries.Itmay even be possible to clarify highlevel theoretical propositions and to identify testable hypotheses in some cases. This is alltheoretical work,andit is one of the main aimsofthis bookto indicatethe importanceof ...
... boundaries.Itmay even be possible to clarify highlevel theoretical propositions and to identify testable hypotheses in some cases. This is alltheoretical work,andit is one of the main aimsofthis bookto indicatethe importanceof ...
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... boundary lies between acceptable and unacceptable forms of religion. Chapter Threeisan extended critique of the tendency ofsome social scientists to conceal these struggles behind a problematic use of the term 'pluralism'. The main ...
... boundary lies between acceptable and unacceptable forms of religion. Chapter Threeisan extended critique of the tendency ofsome social scientists to conceal these struggles behind a problematic use of the term 'pluralism'. The main ...
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... boundaries of these terms ineveryday social life. And formal debates about themoccur incourtsof law and legislatures when ... boundary disputesareendemic and where wellentrenched interest groups are preparedto defendtheir definitionof ...
... boundaries of these terms ineveryday social life. And formal debates about themoccur incourtsof law and legislatures when ... boundary disputesareendemic and where wellentrenched interest groups are preparedto defendtheir definitionof ...
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Secularisation 3 Thevagariesof religious pluralism | |
Socialtheory and religious movements | |
Constructing religion selfand society Notes | |
Index | |
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