Sociology of Religion: A David Martin Reader

ISBN-13: 9781602589742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 525 str.

David Martin; Dedong Wei; Zhifeng Zhong

Opis

Sociologist David Martin has framed the secularization debate, guided Pentecostal studies, and shaped the scholarly study of religion. Martin s work possesses both theoretical depth and global perspective. This reader celebrates his best and most important work. It is essential reading for scholars and students who want to learn more about modernization and cultural change, Pentecostalism and the Global South, peace and violence, religion and sociology, and theology and politics."

Spis treści

Section I: RELIGION AND PACIFISM, PEACE AND VIOLENCE
1. The Denomination
2. Basic Categories: Troeltsch and Weber
3. The Break with Nature
4. Catholic Compromise and Sectarian Rejection
5. Can We Blame Religion or Human Nature?
6. Recapitulations and Mutations

Section II: RELIGION AND POLITICS
7. The Religious and the Political
8. Christianity, Violence and Democracy
9. Protestantism and Democracy
10. Why and How the Two Revolutions Were Forbidden

Section III: SECULARISATION
11. Toward Eliminating the Concept of Secularisation
12. Secularisation and the Future of Christianity
13. What I Really Said about Secularisation
14. Does the Advance of Science Mean Secularisation?
15. Has Secularisation Gone into Reverse?

Section IV: PENTECOSTALISM
16. Anglo and Latin: Rival Civilizations, Alternative Patterns
17. The Methodist Model
18. The Argument Summarized and Extended
19. Pentecostalism

Section V: BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES
20. Historical Background: Dissenters and Abstainers
21. Believing without Belonging
22. The United States in Central European Perspective
23. Another Strange Death

Section VI: THEOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
24. The Sociological Mode and the Theological Vocabulary
25. The Paradigm and the Double Structure
26. Modes of Change
27. What Is Christian Language?
28. Does the Sociological Viewpoint Bear on the Theistic Vision?
29. Changing Your Holy Ground

Section VII: FAITH, CULTURE AND EDUCATION
30. Order and Rule
31. Parts and Wholes, Objectives and Objectivity
32. The Christian, the Political and the Academic