Social Theory and ReligionCambridge University Press, 21. avg. 2003 - 252 strani Many aspects of religion are puzzling these days. This 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, James A. Beckford reviews the current state of social scientific knowledge about religion. |
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... theory . The second is towards identifying reasons for social theorists to pay more attention to the findings of empirical investigations of religion . The book will be of interest to social scientists , philosophers , theologians and ...
... theory . The second is towards identifying reasons for social theorists to pay more attention to the findings of empirical investigations of religion . The book will be of interest to social scientists , philosophers , theologians and ...
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... theorists for tending to assume that religion is only an artefact of social life is certainly appli- cable to some extreme cases of sociologism . But his criticism misses the point that putatively divine or sublime forces can only be ...
... theorists for tending to assume that religion is only an artefact of social life is certainly appli- cable to some extreme cases of sociologism . But his criticism misses the point that putatively divine or sublime forces can only be ...
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... theorists pre- pared to claim that the growing popularity in advanced industrial or late - modern societies of so - called New Age spiritualities and therapies is evidence of various fundamental shifts . A common claim is that the ...
... theorists pre- pared to claim that the growing popularity in advanced industrial or late - modern societies of so - called New Age spiritualities and therapies is evidence of various fundamental shifts . A common claim is that the ...
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... theorists to take better account of the evidence of these developments and thereby to realise that religious movements , far from being necessarily deviant or marginal , are an integral part of social and cultural change . At the same ...
... theorists to take better account of the evidence of these developments and thereby to realise that religious movements , far from being necessarily deviant or marginal , are an integral part of social and cultural change . At the same ...
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Religion a social constructionist approach | 11 |
Secularisation | 30 |
The vagaries of religious pluralism | 73 |
Globalisation and religion | 103 |
Social theory and religious movements | 150 |
Constructing religion self and society | 193 |
Notes | 216 |
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