ISBN:
9789047410188
,
9789004152380
,
9004152385
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 407 p)
,
ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Scheitle, Chris Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory, edited by Warren S. Goldstein. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers, 2006, 407 pp.; 134.00 USD (cloth) 2008
Series Statement:
Studies in critical social sciences v. 6
Parallel Title:
Print version Marx, critical theory, and religion
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Marx, Karl
;
Rational choice theory
;
Critical theory
;
Religion and sociology
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The Sociology of Religion has had several frameworks guiding its analysis including functionalism, interpretive sociology, phenomenology, symbolic interactionism and now rational choice theory. Marxism has tended to ignore religion assuming it is something that would eventually disappear even though it retained theological elements. This collection of essays brings together a group of scholars who use frameworks provided by Marx and Critical Theory in analyzing religion. It's goal is to establish a critical theory of religion within the sociology of religion as an alternative to rational choice. In doing so, it engages in a critique of the positivism, uncritical praise of the market (neoconservativism) and one dimensional conception of rationality of the rational choice theory of religion
Description / Table of Contents:
I. MarxII. Critical theory -- III. Religion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-387) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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