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 religious change by strengthening the links between social theory and the social scientific study of religion. It clarifies the social processes involved inconstructing religionand nonreligion in public and private life. Taking ...
... of religious change by strengthening the links between social theory and the social scientific study of religion. It clarifies the social processes involved inconstructing religionand nonreligion in public and private life. Taking ...
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... of religion insome countries, disputes about what counts as religion, and attempts to devise newways ofcontrolling what ispermitted under the label of religion have all increased. This is notthe complete picture, of course. Continuityin ...
... of religion insome countries, disputes about what counts as religion, and attempts to devise newways ofcontrolling what ispermitted under the label of religion have all increased. This is notthe complete picture, of course. Continuityin ...
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... religious texts may provide valuable evidence of religious ideas, neither the exegesis of textsnorthe creation oftheological systems is directlyrelevant to my social scientific project. This is not to assert the priority ofthe social ...
... religious texts may provide valuable evidence of religious ideas, neither the exegesis of textsnorthe creation oftheological systems is directlyrelevant to my social scientific project. This is not to assert the priority ofthe social ...
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... and religious movements. It doesso by establishingthat social scientific perspectives on religion are scepticaltowards common sensedefinitions of religion. I argue that, ideally, social scientists distinguish between the 'first order ...
... and religious movements. It doesso by establishingthat social scientific perspectives on religion are scepticaltowards common sensedefinitions of religion. I argue that, ideally, social scientists distinguish between the 'first order ...
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... of religion.The second halfofthe chapter analysesin detail thesixmain clusters ofideasthatI detectinthese arguments. They range fromtheclaim that secularisation consigns religion to insignificance as a force in sociallife totheopposite ...
... of religion.The second halfofthe chapter analysesin detail thesixmain clusters ofideasthatI detectinthese arguments. They range fromtheclaim that secularisation consigns religion to insignificance as a force in sociallife totheopposite ...
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Secularisation 3 Thevagariesof religious pluralism | |
Socialtheory and religious movements | |
Constructing religion selfand society Notes | |
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aboutthe analysis andthe approach argument assumptions asthe Beckford Berger boundary challenge charismatic Charismatic movements Christian Church claims collective concept conceptualisations context countries cults debates decline developments distinctive ethnic everyday evidence example faith communities formof forms fundamentalism fundamentalist Giddens global globalisation human identity ideological individualisation individuals institutions interest inthe inwhich isan ISKCON isthat itis Jehovah’s Witnesses laïcité mass media meaning modern modernisation Muslims notions NRMs ofreligion ofreligious ofsocial ofthe onthe particular Pentecostal perspective phenomena pluralism political postmodern practices privatisation processes rational choice rational choice theory rationalisation relations relatively religious beliefs religious change religious diversity religious movements religious organisations religious pluralism religiousmovements sacred scientists secular secularisation selfreflexivity sense significance social construction social constructionism social movements social scientific studies social theory sociological sociology of religion Soka Gakkai International sphere spirituality study of religion suchas supposedly thatare thatreligion thatthe theoretical ideas theorists tobe tothe tradition