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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... human ideas, symbols,feelings, practices and organisations. These expressionsare the productsofsocial interactions, structures and processes and, inturn,they influence social life and cultural meanings to varying degrees. The social ...
... human ideas, symbols,feelings, practices and organisations. These expressionsare the productsofsocial interactions, structures and processes and, inturn,they influence social life and cultural meanings to varying degrees. The social ...
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... human interactions. The meaning that Iwantto attributeto 'construction' in this book lies somewhere between these ... human beings, universally or selectively, experience religionin forms thatare not pre constructedby human culture. Iam ...
... human interactions. The meaning that Iwantto attributeto 'construction' in this book lies somewhere between these ... human beings, universally or selectively, experience religionin forms thatare not pre constructedby human culture. Iam ...
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... human culture. But, since weare human beings who live inthemedium of meanings, contested as well as shared, weareon firmer ground if we limit our investigations towhat we can know about the social constructionof religion as process ...
... human culture. But, since weare human beings who live inthemedium of meanings, contested as well as shared, weareon firmer ground if we limit our investigations towhat we can know about the social constructionof religion as process ...
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... human actors and social institutions. Religion doesnot'do' anything byitself. Itdoesnot haveagency.Rather, it isan interpretative category that human beings apply to a wide variety of phenomena, most of which have to dowith notions of ...
... human actors and social institutions. Religion doesnot'do' anything byitself. Itdoesnot haveagency.Rather, it isan interpretative category that human beings apply to a wide variety of phenomena, most of which have to dowith notions of ...
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... Human societies and cultures havetaken widely differing forms. The catalogue ofthedifferent ways in which people have providedfor suchthingsas their livelihood, physical protection, childrearing,property ownership and transmission ...
... Human societies and cultures havetaken widely differing forms. The catalogue ofthedifferent ways in which people have providedfor suchthingsas their livelihood, physical protection, childrearing,property ownership and transmission ...
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Secularisation 3 Thevagariesof religious pluralism | |
Socialtheory and religious movements | |
Constructing religion selfand society Notes | |
Index | |
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