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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... to be mobilized in unexpected places and in ways which maybein tension with 'establishment' practices andpublicpolicy .. . The deregulation of religion is one of thehidden ironies of secularization. Ithelps to make religion ...
... to be mobilized in unexpected places and in ways which maybein tension with 'establishment' practices andpublicpolicy .. . The deregulation of religion is one of thehidden ironies of secularization. Ithelps to make religion ...
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... to be timeless tradition. Thisbalancing actis always difficultbut itcanbe made considerably easierif the focus of analysis is on the social processes whereby phenomena are categorised as variously 'not religious', 'religious but unusual ...
... to be timeless tradition. Thisbalancing actis always difficultbut itcanbe made considerably easierif the focus of analysis is on the social processes whereby phenomena are categorised as variously 'not religious', 'religious but unusual ...
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... to be 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 ...
... to be 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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... tobe exclusive butinclusive – in the interest offomenting dialogue. I alsorecognisethat thesocial constructionist approach has itslimitationsand isnotimmune from criticism. On balance, however, I am confident that it is an approach ...
... tobe exclusive butinclusive – in the interest offomenting dialogue. I alsorecognisethat thesocial constructionist approach has itslimitationsand isnotimmune from criticism. On balance, however, I am confident that it is an approach ...
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... to be less than convincing in their accounts of religious phenomena isthat theyhave framed religion as an object of social scientific or scholarly study in unhelpful ways. I mean that all too often theorists have taken religion as a ...
... to be less than convincing in their accounts of religious phenomena isthat theyhave framed religion as an object of social scientific or scholarly study in unhelpful ways. I mean that all too often theorists have taken religion as a ...
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Secularisation 3 Thevagariesof religious pluralism | |
Socialtheory and religious movements | |
Constructing religion selfand society Notes | |
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