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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... relatively welldefined object.It also means examining critically thesocial processes whereby certain thingsare counted asreligious.No lessinteresting tosocial scientists are theprocesses whereby prevailing concepts of religion are ...
... relatively welldefined object.It also means examining critically thesocial processes whereby certain thingsare counted asreligious.No lessinteresting tosocial scientists are theprocesses whereby prevailing concepts of religion are ...
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... relatively little interest in the 'frontier wars' and skirmishes that occur throughout theborder zone (butseeGreil& Robbins1994). They seem to prefertoact, instead, as ifthere really were separate spheres or domains and as if their task ...
... relatively little interest in the 'frontier wars' and skirmishes that occur throughout theborder zone (butseeGreil& Robbins1994). They seem to prefertoact, instead, as ifthere really were separate spheres or domains and as if their task ...
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... relatively dull and poorly informed about these particular disputesand conflicts. My aim is,therefore, tocreateamore fruitfulrelationbetween the majorchanges that aretaking place inthe socialand cultural phenomena categorised as ...
... relatively dull and poorly informed about these particular disputesand conflicts. My aim is,therefore, tocreateamore fruitfulrelationbetween the majorchanges that aretaking place inthe socialand cultural phenomena categorised as ...
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... relatively little accountof religion orsocial theorising outside the confines of advanced industrial democracies. Ideally, then, the choice of topicsfor empirical investigation would be informed by conceptual and theoretical knowledge ...
... relatively little accountof religion orsocial theorising outside the confines of advanced industrial democracies. Ideally, then, the choice of topicsfor empirical investigation would be informed by conceptual and theoretical knowledge ...
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... relatively strong impactof State regulationon levels ofpluralism, critical comments from Olson (1998,1999) on regionaldifferences in the impactof pluralism, and energetic attempts by Bruce(1999: 159) to show that'choice undermines faith ...
... relatively strong impactof State regulationon levels ofpluralism, critical comments from Olson (1998,1999) on regionaldifferences in the impactof pluralism, and energetic attempts by Bruce(1999: 159) to show that'choice undermines faith ...
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Secularisation 3 Thevagariesof religious pluralism | |
Socialtheory and religious movements | |
Constructing religion selfand society Notes | |
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