ISBN:
9781317796640
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1530 pages)
Series Statement:
Contemporary sociological perspectives
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Religion in Today’s World : Global Issues, Sociological Perspectives
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wilcox, Melissa M., 1972 - Religion in today's world
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Religionssoziologie
Abstract:
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 interes
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Section I: What is Religion?; Essay: "Tilting at Windmills: Defining and Predicting Religion"; Readings:; Defining Religion; 1. "The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category." From Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam, 27-54. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Description / Table of Contents:
2. "Contested Meanings and Definitional Boundaries: Historicizing the Sociology of Religion." From Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life, 19-44. New York: Oxford University Press.Imagining Religion's Future; 3. Selections from The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, 106-111, 125-128. Garden City: Doubleday.; 4. Selections from "Work in Progress Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States." American Journal of Sociology 98(5): 1044-1046, 1074-1093.
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5. "The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview." In The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, ed. Peter L. Berger, 1-18. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans.6. "The Curious Case of the Unnecessary Recantation: Berger and Secularization." In Peter Berger and the Study of Religion, ed. Linda Woodhead, 87-100. New York: Routledge; 7. Selections from "Bringing the Sacred to Life: Explaining Sacralization and Secularization." From The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality, 77-82, 94-110, 123-128. London: Blackwell.
Description / Table of Contents:
Section II: Religion and Social InstitutionsEssay: "Religion, State, and Nation"; Readings:; Religion, State, and Law; 8. "Positioning Religion in Modernity: State and Buddhism in China." In Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China, ed. Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank, 43-70.; 9. "Realigning Religion and Power in Central Asia: Islam, Nation-State and (Post)Socialism." Europe-Asia Studies 61(9): 1517-1541.; Religion and the Nation; 10. "Civil Religion in America." Daedalus 96(1): 1-21.
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11. "Civil Rights-Civil Religion: Visible People and Invisible People." From Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion, 161-168, 170. Aurora: The Davies Group.12. "The Militant Christian Right in the United States." From Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda, 182-192. Berkeley: University of California Press.; 13. Selections from Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shintō Ultranationalism, 297-328. Durham: Duke University Press.; Section III: Religion and Social Power
Description / Table of Contents:
Essay: "Religion, Oppression, and Resistance"
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