Religion In Sociological Perspective

Author : Keith A. Roberts,David Yamane
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506366050

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Religion in Sociological Perspective by Keith A. Roberts,David Yamane Pdf

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Religion in Sociological Perspective introduces students to the systems of meaning, structure, and belonging that make up the complex social phenomena we know as religion. Authors Keith A. Roberts and David Yamane use an active learning approach to illustrate the central theories and methods of research in the sociology of religion and show students how to apply these analytical tools to new groups they encounter. The Seventh Edition departs from previous editions by emphasizing that the sociology of religion is an ongoing conversation among scholars in dialogue with existing scholarship and the social world. This perspective is established in the new second chapter, "Historical Development of the Sociology of Religion." Other chapters feature important voices from the past alongside the views of contemporary sociologists, and conclude with a glimpse of where the sociology of religion might be heading in the future. At every opportunity, the text has been enriched by research and examples that are meant to challenge parochial limits in the sociology of religion, pushing beyond Christianity, congregations, beliefs, national borders (especially the United States), and even beyond religion itself (to take nonreligion more seriously). Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides. A student activity guide includes chapter specific exercises linked to resources within the ARDA.

Author : Lester R. Kurtz
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483386454

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Gods in the Global Village by Lester R. Kurtz Pdf

In a world plagued by religious conflict, how can the various religious and secular traditions coexist peacefully on the planet? And, what role does sociology play in helping us understand the state of religious life in a globalizing world? In the Fourth Edition ofGods in the Global Village, author Lester Kurtz continues to address these questions. This text is an engaging, thought-provoking examination of the relationships among the major faith traditions that inform the thinking and ethical standards of most people in the emerging global social order. Thoroughly updated to reflect recent events, the book discusses the role of religion in our daily lives and global politics, and the ways in which religion is both an agent of, and barrier to, social change.

Author : Bryan R. Wilson
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004230788

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Religion in Sociological Perspective by Bryan R. Wilson Pdf

In this book, based on lectures that the author was invited to deliver in Japan, Bryan Wilson traces the dominant contours of religion as perceived by the sociologist. His themes range from the study of sectarianism, on which he is one of the relationship between religion and culture in modern societies of the West and the East.

Author : Inger Furseth,Pål Repstad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351958660

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

Is it true that religion is weakening in modern times, or are we facing religious resurgence? What is fundamentalism? How does it emerge and grow? What role does religion play in ethnic and national conflicts? Is religion a fundamental driving force or do political leaders use religion for their own purposes? Do all religions oppress women? These are some of the questions addressed in this book. 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.

Author : Keith A. Roberts,David Yamane
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 909 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452275819

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Religion in Sociological Perspective by Keith A. Roberts,David Yamane Pdf

This fully updated Sixth Edition of Religion in Sociological Perspective introduces students to the basic theories and methods in the field, and shows them how to apply these analytic tools to new groups they encounter. Authors Keith A Roberts and David Yamane explore three interdependent subsystems of religion—meaning, structure, and belonging—and their connections to the larger social structure. While they cover the major theoretical paradigms of the field and employ various middle-range theories to explore specific processes, they use the open systems model as a single unifying framework to integrate the theories and enhance student understanding.

Author : Melissa M. Wilcox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317796640

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Religion in Today’s World by Melissa M. Wilcox Pdf

Religion is a major force in contemporary society. It is also one of the least understood social and political influences on individuals and communities. In this innovative collection of original essays and classic readings, experts explore the significance of contemporary religiosity: as a source of meaning and motivation, how it unites and divides us, and how it is used politically and culturally. Readers will be introduced to the broad debates in ways that will equip them to analyze, discuss, and make their own judgments about religion and society. This book should be read by anyone interested in understanding religion as a central source of meaning and politics, and is ideally suited for undergraduate teaching on religion and social issues and from a global perspective.

Author : Lawrence A. Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134953493

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Rational Choice Theory and Religion by Lawrence A. Young Pdf

Rational Choice Theory and Religion considers one of the major developments in the social scientific paradigms that promises to foster a greater theoretical unity among the disciplines of sociology, political science, economics and psychology. Applying the theory of rational choice--the theory that each individual will make her choice to maximize gain and minimize cost--to the study of religion, Lawrence Young has brought together a group of internationally renowned scholars to examine this important development within the field of religion for the first time.

Author : Dr Elisabeth Arweck,Dr Mathew Guest
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781409471165

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Religion and Knowledge by Dr Elisabeth Arweck,Dr Mathew Guest Pdf

Religions have always been associated with particular forms of knowledge, often knowledge accorded special significance and sometimes knowledge at odds with prevailing understandings of truth and authority in wider society. New religious movements emerge on the basis of reformulated, often controversial, understandings of how the world works and where ultimate meaning can be found. Governments have risen and fallen on the basis of such differences and global conflict has raged around competing claims about the origins and content of religious truth. Such concerns give rise to recurrent questions, faced by academics, governments and the general public. How do we treat statements made by religious groups and on what basis are they made? What authorities lie behind religious claims to truth? How can competing claims about knowledge be resolved? Are there instances when it is appropriate to police religious knowledge claims or restrict their public expression? This book addresses the relationship between religion and knowledge from a sociological perspective, taking both religion and knowledge as phenomena located within ever changing social contexts. It builds on historical foundations, but offers a distinctive focus on the changing status of religious phenomena at the turn of the twenty-first century. Including critical engagement with live debates about intelligent design and the ‘new atheism’, this collection of essays brings recent research on religious movements into conversation with debates about socialisation, reflexivity and the changing capacity of social institutions to shape human identities. Contributors examine religion as an institutional context for the production of knowledge, as a form of knowledge to be transmitted or conveyed and as a social field in which controversies about knowledge emerge.

Author : Keith A. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion and sociology
ISBN : 0534723985

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Religion in Sociological Perspective by Keith A. Roberts Pdf

Author : Philip A Mellor
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Dr Andrew McKinnon,Dr Marta Trzebiatowska
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Max Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Religion and sociology
ISBN : OCLC:1075904974

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The Sociology of Religion by Max Weber Pdf

Author : Robert L. Montgomery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Culture diffusion
ISBN : 0761803440

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The Diffusion of Religions by Robert L. Montgomery Pdf

Of the major world religions, only three, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam have diffused widely. They were introduced across numerous socio-cultural boundaries and were received as new religions to their converts. However, these diffusing religions have had varying degrees of success from wholesale reception to wholesale rejection. This book presents the perspective that a major factor in the variations in the diffusions of these religions, and in the religions themselves, is found in the nature of the inter-group relationships between receiving groups and both sending groups and surrounding groups. A crucial perception of the receivers is the perceived contribution the new religion will make to the enhancement of important aspects of group identities and of the strength of the group. This book takes into account diffusion, an old and persistent concept in the social sciences which has been rarely applied in sociology to religions or even ideologies.

Author : George Lundskow
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506319605

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The Sociology of Religion by George Lundskow Pdf

Most Sociology of Religion texts are decidedly staid and uninteresting, covering "contemporary" developments which are only contemporary only from a disciplinary perspective. They are not contemporary if viewed from the perspective of the religion's practioners (in religious and non-religious settings). The textbooks that attempt to be interesting to undergraduate students often fall short because they either try to cover too much in an encyclopedic format, or sacrifice a sociological perspective for a personal one. Many use real-life examples only superficially to illustrate concepts. Lundskow's approach is the opposite—students will learn the facts of religion in its great diversity, all the most interesting and compelling beliefs and practices, and then learn relevant concepts that can be used to explain empirical observations. The book thus follows the logic of actual research—investigate and then analyze—rather than approaching concepts with no real bearing on how religion is experienced in society. This approach, using provocative examples and with an eye toward the historical and theoretical, not to mention global experience of religion, will make this book a success in the classroom. The author envisions a substantive approach that examines religion as it actually exists in all its forms, including belief, ritual, daily living, identity, institutions, social movements, social control, and social change. Within these broad categories, the book will devote particular chapters to important historical moments and movements, leaders, and various individual religions that have shaped the contemporary form and effect of religion in the world today.

Author : Philip A Mellor,Chris Shilling
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473907386

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Sociology of the Sacred by Philip A Mellor,Chris Shilling Pdf

"About time! Two key experts in the field remind us of the significance and power of religion as bio-political and bio-economic." - Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of London "A welcome addition to a continuing body of work by two distinguished theorists of religion." - Grace Davie, University of Exeter "Mellor and Shilling cement their place at the pinnacle of the contemporary sociological theorisation of religion and the sacred. If sociological work is going to have any future it is to be found in the inspiration and excitement of this sophisticated and intelligent book." - Keith Tester, University of Hull "This book is ambitious, refreshing and rewarding. It offers the best available analysis of the complex interlacing of the sacred, religion, secularization and embodied experience." - James A. Beckford, University of Warwick Drawing on classical and contemporary social theory, Sociology of the Sacred presents a bold and original account of how interactions between religious and secular forms of the sacred underpin major conflicts in the world today, and illuminate broader patterns of social and cultural change inherent to global modernity. It demonstrates: How the bodily capacities help religions adapt to social change but also facilitate their internal transformation That the ‘sacred’ includes a diverse range of phenomena, with variable implications for questions of social order and change How proponents of a ‘post-secular’ age have failed to grasp the ways in which sacralization can advance secularization Why the sociology of the sacred needs to be a key part of attempts to make sense of the nature and directionality of social change in global modernity today. This book is key reading for the sociology of religion, the body and modern culture.