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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... of a widerangeof theoretical attempts to account for religious changeandcontinuity. The discussion goesin two directions.Thefirstis towardsidentifying ways in which studies ofreligion would benefitfromtaking better account of themes in ...
... of a widerangeof theoretical attempts to account for religious changeandcontinuity. The discussion goesin two directions.Thefirstis towardsidentifying ways in which studies ofreligion would benefitfromtaking better account of themes in ...
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... of the processes thatled to religion'sinsulation against, and isolation from,the principal currents of social scientific thinking. Thefirst explanation was basedonsome aspects ofthe ways in which religion had beenconceptualised as an object ...
... of the processes thatled to religion'sinsulation against, and isolation from,the principal currents of social scientific thinking. Thefirst explanation was basedonsome aspects ofthe ways in which religion had beenconceptualised as an object ...
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... on religion, their investigations of the ways in which human beings 'do religion' can still be interesting and provocative. The priority thatI assign to 'construction' isnot necessarilyrelatedto any particular assumptions about ontology ...
... on religion, their investigations of the ways in which human beings 'do religion' can still be interesting and provocative. The priority thatI assign to 'construction' isnot necessarilyrelatedto any particular assumptions about ontology ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... In other words,the concept of late modernity offers an interesting interpretation of New Age phenomena but,unless it ... which to assess the concepts' value. By comparison, I shall devotelittle space to questions of research strategiesand ...
... In other words,the concept of late modernity offers an interesting interpretation of New Age phenomena but,unless it ... which to assess the concepts' value. By comparison, I shall devotelittle space to questions of research strategiesand ...
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Secularisation 3 Thevagariesof religious pluralism | |
Socialtheory and religious movements | |
Constructing religion selfand society Notes | |
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