ISBN:
9780415667982
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9780415667975
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (220 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Studying Religion and Society : Sociological Self-Portraits
DDC:
306.6071
Keywords:
Religion and sociology Study and teaching
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Religion and sociology ; Study and teaching
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
How do you study religion and society? In this fascinating book, some of the most famous names in the field explain how they go about their everyday work of studying religions in the field. They explain how the ideas for their projects and books have come together, how their understanding of religion has changed over the years, and how their own beliefs have affected their work. They also comment on the changing nature of the field, the ideas which they regard as most important, and those which have not stood the test of time. Lastly they offer advice to young scholars, and suggest what needs
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; STUDYING RELIGION AND SOCIETY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; 1 Introduction: on sociological self-reflection; 2 A life in religious communities; 3 Stranger in a strange land; 4 Doing sociology: confessions of a professional stranger; 5 Constructing religion: serendipity and skepticism; 6 Straddling boundaries: disciplines, theories, methods, and continents; 7 Work and adventure: from poetry to the sociology of religion; 8 Unintended consequences biographical and sociological; 9 Serendipity in the study of religion and society
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Thinking sociologically about religion: discerning and explaining pattern11 Hurdling over borders: reflections on my intellectual trajectory; 12 The empiricist's tale: academic wanderlust and the comparative imperative; 13 My specific form of disorientation; 14 Engaged faith: my own and that of others; 15 Studying Protestantism in a Catholic and secular context: lessons for a comparative sociology of religion; 16 Side roads and detours: a narrative reconstruction about studying religion; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Introduction : on sociological self-reflection
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A life in religious communities
,
Stranger in a strange land
,
Doing sociology : confessions of a professional stranger
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Constructing religion : serendipity and skepticism
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Straddling boundaries : disciplines, theories, methods, and continents
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Work and adventure: from poetry to sociology of religion
,
Unintended consequences biographical and sociological
,
Serendipity in the study of religion and society
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Thinking sociologically about religion : discerning and explaining pattern
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Hurdling over borders : reflections on my intellectual trajectory
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Counting and accounting for worldviews : doing surveys and social research on four continents
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My specific form of disorientation
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Engaged faith; my own and of those I study
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Studying Protestantism in a Catholic and secular context : lessons for a comparative sociology of religion
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Side roads and detours : a narrative reconstruction about studying religion
