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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... individuals to hold religious beliefs, and in somecasesto practise them, also suggests thatthe problemsof ... individual beliefs, doesnotmake it any easiertodecide what counts,or what should count, as religion. Indeed, in some respects ...
... individuals to hold religious beliefs, and in somecasesto practise them, also suggests thatthe problemsof ... individual beliefs, doesnotmake it any easiertodecide what counts,or what should count, as religion. Indeed, in some respects ...
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... individuals or in groups. Other situations involve the meanings and rules sedimented ininstitutions, organisations and communities.In practice, it isoften beneficial to scrutinisethe interaction between the meanings attributed to ...
... individuals or in groups. Other situations involve the meanings and rules sedimented ininstitutions, organisations and communities.In practice, it isoften beneficial to scrutinisethe interaction between the meanings attributed to ...
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... individual uses ofreligion.I am alsoarguingthat thenotionof religion is constructed and usedforall kindsof purposes by many collective agents such as the institutions of law,theState,the mass media, school education, health ...
... individual uses ofreligion.I am alsoarguingthat thenotionof religion is constructed and usedforall kindsof purposes by many collective agents such as the institutions of law,theState,the mass media, school education, health ...
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... individual and collective actors make oftheterm. If thereis an objection to my strategyon thegrounds that it fails to demarcate the boundaries ofreligion with sufficient clarity,my response is that the everydaypractice of giving meaning ...
... individual and collective actors make oftheterm. If thereis an objection to my strategyon thegrounds that it fails to demarcate the boundaries ofreligion with sufficient clarity,my response is that the everydaypractice of giving meaning ...
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... individuals, groups, organisationsand institutions. This meansthat theriskof absolute relativism and solipsism is strongly reduced bymy insistence on taking evidence of social usage asmy main point of reference. It follows that what ...
... individuals, groups, organisationsand institutions. This meansthat theriskof absolute relativism and solipsism is strongly reduced bymy insistence on taking evidence of social usage asmy main point of reference. It follows that what ...
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Secularisation 3 Thevagariesof religious pluralism | |
Socialtheory and religious movements | |
Constructing religion selfand society Notes | |
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