Religion And Social Theory

Author : Bryan S Turner
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080398569X

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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 : James A. Beckford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521774314

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Author : Philip A Mellor
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761948651

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Religion, Realism and Social Theory by Philip A Mellor Pdf

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.

Author : Bryan S Turner
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015022023280

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Religion and Social Theory by Bryan S Turner Pdf

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 : Richard King
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231518246

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Religion, Theory, Critique by Richard King Pdf

Religion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporary and classical theories as well as non-Western cultural contexts. Unlike other collections, this anthology emphasizes the dynamic relationship between "religion" as an object of study and different methodological approaches and openly addresses the question of the manifold ways in which "religion," "secular," and "culture" are imagined within different disciplinary horizons. This volume is the first textbook which seeks to engage discussion of classical approaches with contemporary cultural and critical theories. Contributors write on the influence of the natural sciences in the study of religion; the role of European Christianity in modeling theories of religion; religious experience and the interface with cognitive science; the structure and function of religious language; the social-scientific study of religion; ritual in religion; the phenomenology of religion; critical theory and religion; embodiment and religion; the impact of colonialism and modernity; theorizing religion in terms of race and ethnicity; links among religion, nationalism, and globalization; the interplay of gender, sex, and religion; and religion and the environment. Each chapter introduces the topic, identifies key theorists and issues, and respects the pluralistic nature of the scholarship in the field. Altogether, this collection scrutinizes the explicit and implicit assumptions theorists make about religion as an object of analysis.

Author : Dr Andrew McKinnon,Dr Marta Trzebiatowska
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409465539

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Sociological Theory and the Question of Religion by Dr Andrew McKinnon,Dr Marta Trzebiatowska Pdf

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
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X000628386

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Author : Andrew McKinnon,Marta Trzebiatowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317053026

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Sociological Theory and the Question of Religion by Andrew McKinnon,Marta Trzebiatowska Pdf

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 : Philip A Mellor
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0761948651

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Religion, Realism and Social Theory by Philip A Mellor Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion and politics
ISBN : OCLC:12666860

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Religion and Social Theory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mitsutoshi Horii
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030875169

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'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology by Mitsutoshi Horii Pdf

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 : James A. Beckford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107320109

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Social Theory and Religion by James A. Beckford Pdf

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.

Author : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion and sociology
ISBN : OCLC:731732790

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Religion and Social Theory by Bryan S. Turner Pdf

Author : Germán McKenzie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319477008

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Interpreting Charles Taylor’s Social Theory on Religion and Secularization by Germán McKenzie Pdf

This book examines “Taylorean social theory,” its sources, main characteristics and impact. Charles Taylor’s meta-narrative of secularization in the West, prominently contained in his major work A Secular Age (2007), has brought new insight on the social and cultural factors that intervened in such process, the role of human agency, and particularly on the contemporary conditions of belief in North America and Europe. This study discusses what Taylor’s approach has brought to the scholarly debate on Western secularization, which has been carried on mostly in sociological terms. McKenzie interprets Taylor’s views in a way that offers an original social theory. Such interpretation is possible with the help of sociologist Margaret Archer’s “morphogenetic theory” and by making the most of Taylor’s particular understanding of the method of the social sciences and of his philosophical views on human beings, knowledge and modernity. After exploring the philosophical and sociological sources informing Taylorean social theory and proposing its basic concepts and hermeneutic guidelines, the author compares it with two widespread theories of secularization: the now waning “orthodox” account and that proposed by Rational Choice Theory scholars, particularly prevalent in the United States. In doing so, the book shows in which ways Taylorean social theory supersedes them, what new issues it brings into the scholarly discussion, and what difficulties might limit its future development.

Author : Inger Furseth,Pål Repstad
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754656586

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An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion by Inger Furseth,Pål Repstad Pdf

An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion provides an overview of sociological theories of contemporary religious life. Some chapters are organized according to topic. Others offer brief presentations of classical and contemporary sociologists from Karl Marx to Zygmunt Bauman and their perspectives on social life, including religion. Throughout the book, illustrations and examples are taken from several religious traditions.