Sociology of Religion: An Historical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781138533233 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 328 str.

Walter Wallace

Opis

Sociology of Religion represents a documented introduction to the history of sociological thought as applied to religious phenomena

Spis treści

List of Tables

About the Author

Introduction to the Transaction Edition: Ideology, Social Constructionism, and the Sociology of Religion by Howard Schneiderman

Preface to the English Edition

The Sociological Definition of Religion

Part I The Origins

1. The Historical-Philosophical Background
2. August Comte (1798 1857): The Universal Religion
3. Tocqueville (1805 1859): Religion and Democracy
4. Bergson (1859 1941): Religion and "elan Vital"
5. The Contribution of Anthropology

Part II The Classics

1. Durkheim (1858 1917): Religious Forms
2. Weber (1864 1920): Universal Religions
3. Simmel (1858 1918): Religiosity and Religion
4. Freud (1856 1939): The Psychic Dimension of Religion
5. William James (1842 1910): Psychosocial Perspective

Part III The Contemporaries

1. Religion as Universal
2. The Macrosociological Approach
3. The Historical-Cultural Dynamics
4. The Frankfurt School and Religion
5. The New European Perspectives
6. The Socioanthropological Perspectives

Part IV The Recent Developments

1. Secularization
2. Religious Pluralism
3. Robert Bellah (1927 2013): Civil Religion
4. North American Trends
5. The European Trends
6. Niklas Luhmann (1927 1998): Religion as Function
7. The New Religious Movements

Afterword

Bibliography

Author Index

General Index

O autorze

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