Social Theory and ReligionCambridge University Press, 2003 M08 21 - 252 páginas 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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... 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 specialists in religious studies . James A ...
... 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 specialists in religious studies . James A ...
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... reasons for adopting this approach more fully in Chapter One , but it is important to give an early indication of the strategy that will be adopted in this book . The starting - point is the assertion that , whatever else religion is ...
... reasons for adopting this approach more fully in Chapter One , but it is important to give an early indication of the strategy that will be adopted in this book . The starting - point is the assertion that , whatever else religion is ...
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... reason . There is nothing more real or accessible than the tissue of language and discursive practice , according to this position ( see , for example , Gergen 1999 ) . By comparison , a more modest use of ' constructionism ' implies ...
... reason . There is nothing more real or accessible than the tissue of language and discursive practice , according to this position ( see , for example , Gergen 1999 ) . By comparison , a more modest use of ' constructionism ' implies ...
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... reasons , but readers will understand that , in my view , ' religion ' is a social and cultural construct with highly variable meaning . Let me put some descriptive flesh on these dry , analytical bones by means of a timely example ...
... reasons , but readers will understand that , in my view , ' religion ' is a social and cultural construct with highly variable meaning . Let me put some descriptive flesh on these dry , analytical bones by means of a timely example ...
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... reasons for dealing with seculari- sation ahead of the other principal topics are twofold . First , the volume of commentary on secularisation is so great that it deserves special at- tention . Second , the arguments that rage around ...
... reasons for dealing with seculari- sation ahead of the other principal topics are twofold . First , the volume of commentary on secularisation is so great that it deserves special at- tention . Second , the arguments that rage around ...
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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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Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn Asef Bayat Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates James A. Beckford,John Walliss Vista previa limitada - 2006 |