Social Theory and Religion
Title | Social Theory and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Beckford |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2003-08-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780521774314 |
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.
Sociological Theory and the Question of Religion
Title | Sociological Theory and the Question of Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew McKinnon |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1317053028 |
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.
Religion and Social Theory
Title | Religion and Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan S Turner |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Limited |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 1991-09-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
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
Religion, Realism and Social Theory
Title | Religion, Realism and Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Philip A Mellor |
Publisher | SAGE |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2004-10-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780761948650 |
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.
Religion and Social Theory
Title | Religion and Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan S. Turner |
Publisher | Heinemann Educational Publishers |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Social Theory and Christian Thought (RLE Social Theory)
Title | Social Theory and Christian Thought (RLE Social Theory) PDF eBook |
Author | Werner Stark |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2014-08-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 131765109X |
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.
'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology
Title | 'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology PDF eBook |
Author | Mitsutoshi Horii |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2022-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030875164 |
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.