Religion And Social Theory

Author : James A. Beckford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521774314
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Theory and Religion written by James A. Beckford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bryan S Turner
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Social Theory written by Bryan S Turner and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1991-09-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this major book on the social analysis of religion incorporates a substantial new introduction by Bryan S Turner. Religion and Social Theory assesses the different theoretical approaches to the social function of religion. Turner discusses at length the ideas of key contributors to these approaches (including Engels, Durkheim, Weber, Nietzsche, Freud, Parsons, Marcuse, Habermas and Foucault). In so doing, he develops a distinctive perspective on the role of religion as an institutional link between economic and human reproduction. Social theories of religion are explored through a resolutely comparative and historical analysis of the Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Relating c

Author : Andrew McKinnon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317053028
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociological Theory and the Question of Religion written by Andrew McKinnon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion lies near the heart of the classical sociological tradition, yet it no longer occupies the same place within the contemporary sociological enterprise. This relative absence has left sociology under-prepared for thinking about religion’s continuing importance in new issues, movements, and events in the twenty-first century. This book seeks to address this lacunae by offering a variety of theoretical perspectives on the study of religion that bridge the gap between mainstream concerns of sociologists and the sociology of religion. Following an assessment of the current state of the field, the authors develop an emerging critical perspective within the sociology of religion with particular focus on the importance of historical background. Re-assessing the themes of aesthetics, listening and different degrees of spiritual self-discipline, the authors draw on ethnographic studies of religious involvement in Norway and the UK. They highlight the importance of power in the sociology of religion with help from Pierre Bourdieu, Marx and Critical Discourse Analysis. This book points to emerging currents in the field and offers a productive and lively way forward, not just for sociological theory of religion, but for the sociology of religion more generally.

Author : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Social Theory written by Bryan S. Turner and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip A Mellor
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761948650
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Realism and Social Theory written by Philip A Mellor and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges those contemporary sociologists who argue that the notion of 'society' is an outmoded basis for sociological analysis and instead revitalizes the idea that sociology is truly 'the study of society'. Mellor returns the human and religious aspects of social life to the centre of social theory.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Social Theory written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mitsutoshi Horii
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030875164
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology written by Mitsutoshi Horii and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by ‘critical religion’ perspective in Religious Studies and postcolonial self-reflection in Sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of ‘religion’ and ‘the secular’ in social theory and Sociology. It argues that as long as social theory and sociological discourse embed the religion-secular distinction and locate themselves on the ‘secular’ side of the binary, Sociology will continue to serve the very ideologies it tries to subvert – namely Western modernity/coloniality.

Author : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Social Theory written by Bryan S. Turner and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453215379
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Canopy written by Peter L. Berger and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVInfluential scholar Peter L. Berger explores the sociological underpinnings of religion and the rise of a modern secular society/divDIV /divDIVAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory. Berger examines the roots of religious belief and its gradual dissolution in modern times, applying a general theoretical perspective to specific examples from religions throughout the ages./divDIV /divDIVBuilding upon the author’s previous work, The Social Construction of Reality, with Thomas Luckmann, this book makes Berger’s case that human societies build a “sacred canopy” to protect, stabilize, and give meaning to their worldview./div

Author : Werner Stark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131765109X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Theory and Christian Thought (RLE Social Theory) written by Werner Stark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all the great religious thinkers of the past have developed a social as well as theological doctrine, but their sociology was as a rule merely implicit in their work or at best half formulated so that careful study and analysis is needed to bring it out. This is the task which Dr. Stark has set himself in the present essays. He has searched the writings of St. Augustine, Paschal, Newman and Kierkegaard for the sociological ideas they contain and shows that their social philosophies were varied, profound, fascinating and surprisingly definite. Dr. Stark seeks the theological conceptions present in, and basic to, the teachings of some outstanding secular sociologists, economists and philosophers, such as Adam Smith, Kant, Hegel, Marx, the Darwinians, Bergson Scheler and Meinecke and proves that their systems were built around a religious centre even though they themselves were at times unaware of it.