ISBN:
9780520073944
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (329 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Beyond Belief : Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditionalist World
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Beyond Belief collects fifteen celebrated, broadly ranging essays in which Robert Bellah interprets the interplay of religion and society in concrete contexts from Japan to the Middle East to the United States. First published in 1970, Beyond Belief is a classic in the field of sociology of religion
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; 1 The Sociology of Religion; 2 Religious Evolution; PART TWO: RELIGION IN THE MODERNIZATION PROCESS; GENERAL; 3 Reflections on the Protestant Ethic Analogy in Asia; 4 Meaning and Modernization; CHINA; 5 Father and Son in Christianity and Confucianism; JAPAN; 6 The Religious Situation in the Far East; 7 Values and Social Change in Modern Japan; ISLAM; 8 Islamic Tradition and the Problems of Modernization; UNITED STATES; 9 Civil Religion in America; PART THREE: RELIGION IN MODERN SOCIETY
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Review of Bishop Robinson's Honest to God11 Transcendence in Contemporary Piety; 12 The Dynamics of Worship; 13 Religion and Belief; 14 Review of Norman O. Brown's Love's Body; 15 Between Religion and Social Science; Appendix: The Systematic Study of Religion; Bibliography of Robert N. Bellah; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
