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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... social scientific study of religion is, broadly speaking, a 'social constructionist' one. Letmetrytobeclear ... construction' in this book lies somewhere between these two extremes. Without denying theexistence of anything other ...
... social scientific study of religion is, broadly speaking, a 'social constructionist' one. Letmetrytobeclear ... construction' in this book lies somewhere between these two extremes. Without denying theexistence of anything other ...
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... social science has no way of taking them into account. Nothing canbe ... social constructionof religion as process andproduct. Although very fewsocial ... construction' isnot necessarilyrelatedto any particular assumptions about ...
... social science has no way of taking them into account. Nothing canbe ... social constructionof religion as process andproduct. Although very fewsocial ... construction' isnot necessarilyrelatedto any particular assumptions about ...
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... social and cultural construct with highly variable meaning. Let meput some descriptive flesh on these dry, analytical bones bymeans of a timely example. There isno shortage of socialtheorists prepared to claim that the growing ...
... social and cultural construct with highly variable meaning. Let meput some descriptive flesh on these dry, analytical bones bymeans of a timely example. There isno shortage of socialtheorists prepared to claim that the growing ...
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... construct that varies in meaning across time andplace. Itis the taskof social science, inmy view, to study the processes whereby the social construction ofreligion takes place atalllevels ofthe social worldand with varying degrees of ...
... construct that varies in meaning across time andplace. Itis the taskof social science, inmy view, to study the processes whereby the social construction ofreligion takes place atalllevels ofthe social worldand with varying degrees of ...
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... social construction ofreligion. Consequently, secularisation is'goodto thinkwith'. The first half ofthe chapter discusses the deep philosophical and ideological wellsprings of the widely differing ideas that bubble upinarguments about ...
... social construction ofreligion. Consequently, secularisation is'goodto thinkwith'. The first half ofthe chapter discusses the deep philosophical and ideological wellsprings of the widely differing ideas that bubble upinarguments about ...
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Secularisation 3 Thevagariesof religious pluralism | |
Socialtheory and religious movements | |
Constructing religion selfand society Notes | |
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