Research Catalog

Title

The sociology of religion / edited by Steve Bruce.

Publication

Aldershot, UK ; Brookfield, Vt., US : E. Elgar, ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bruce, Steve, 1954-

Description

2 volumes : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• An Elgar reference collection
• The international library of critical writings in sociology ; 3

Uniform Title

• Elgar reference collection.
• International library of critical writings in sociology ; 3.

Subject

• Religion and sociology
• Godsdienstsociologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• V. 1. pt. 1. Theories of religion -- 1. On religion / K. Marx and F. Engels -- 2. The social psychology of the world religions / Max Weber -- 3. The Portestant secs and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber -- 4. Religious rejections of the world and their directions / Max Weber -- 5. The elementary forms of the religious life / E. Durkheim -- 6. Excerpt from Civilization, society and religion : group psychology, civilization and its discontents and other works / Sigmund Freud -- 7. The theoretical development of the sociology of religion : a chapter in the history of modern social science / Talcott Parsons -- 8. Sociology of religion and sociology of knowledge / Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann -- 9. Religious evolution / Robert N. Bellah -- 10. The sociological explanation of "religious" beliefs / W.G. Runciman -- 11. Society, meaning, religion -- based on self-reference / Niklas Luhmann -- 12. Towards a theory of religion : religious commitment / Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge -- 13. The Stark-Bainbridge theory of religion : a critical analysis and counter proposals / Roy Wallis and Steve Bruce -- 14. Formal explanation of religion : a progress report / William Sims Bainbridge and Rodyney Stark -- 15. Religious practice as social exchange : an explanation of the empirical findings / Richard R. Lee -- 16. Religion and rational choice : a critique of economic explantations of religious behavior / Steve Bruce
• Pt. 2. Secularization -- 17. Religion in a secularized society / Will Herberg -- 18. Secularization and pluralism / Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann -- 19. Religion in postindustrial America : the problem of secularization / Talcott Parsons -- 20. Religion and the churches in contemporary America / Bryan Wilson -- 21. Towards eliminating the concept of secularization / David Martin -- 22. Religion in a modern pluralistic society / Talcott Parsons -- 23. The concept of secularization in empirical research / Larry Shiner -- 24. The process of secularization : a post-Parsonian view / Richard K. Fenn -- 25. The debate over "secularization" : religion, society, & faith / Bryan Wilson -- 26. The return of the sacred? the argument of the future of religion / Daniel Bell -- 27. Why conservative churches are still growing / Dean M. Kelley -- 28. The structural conditions of religious consciousness in modern societies / Thomas Luckmann -- 29. Research on factors influencing church commitment / Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen -- 30. From the crisis of religion to the crisis of secularity / Peter L. Berger -- 31. Humanity, globalization, and worldwide religious resurgence : a theoretical explanation / Roland Robertson and JoAnn Chirico -- 32. Changes in religious commitment in the United States, Holland, and Japan / Masamichi Sasaki and Tatsuzo Suzuki -- 33. Secularization: the orthodox model / Roy Wallis and Steve Bruce
• V. 2. pt. 1. Church, sect, denomiation and cult -- 1. The sociological study of sectarianism / Peter L. Berger -- 2. An analysis of sect development / Bryan R. Wison -- 3. On church and sect / Benton Johnson -- 4. Scientology: therapeutic cult to religious sec / Roy Wallis -- 5. The cult, the cultic milieu and secularization / Colin Campbell -- 6. The denomination / D.A. Martin -- pt. 2. Religion, magic and rationality -- 7. Withcraft amongst the Azande / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- 8. The problem of symbols in Nuer religion / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- 9. Primitive worlds in Purity and danger : an analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo / Mary Douglas -- 10. The problem of the rationality of magic / I.C. Jarvie and Joseph Agassi -- 11. On understanding ritual / J.H.M. Beattie -- pt. 3. Conversion, recruitment and commitment -- 12. Becoming a world-saver : a theory of conversation to a deviant perspective / John Lofland and Rodney Stark -- 13. Becoming a world-saver revisited / John Lofland -- 14. Five factors crucial to the growth and spread of a modern religious movement / Luther P. Gerlach and Virginia H. Hine -- 15. Religious conversation as a personal and collective accomplishment / Roger A. Straus -- 16. Commitment and social organization : a study of commitment mechanisms in Utopian communities / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- pt. 4. New religious movements -- 17. A sociological perspective on the new religions / Benton Johnson
• 18. The elementary forms of the new religious life / Roy Wallis -- 19. New religious movements and the social system : integration, disintegration, or transformation / Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony -- 20. Rise and decline of Sokagakkai : Japan and the United States / Hideo Hashimoto and William McPherson -- 21. The esoteric community : an ethnographic investigation of the cultic milieu / Danny L. Jorgensen -- 22. Figuring out cult receptivity / Roy Wallis -- 23. Europe's receptivity to new religious movements : round two / Rodney Stark -- pt. 5. Religion and politics -- 24. Methodism and the threat of revolution in Britain / E. J. Hobsbawm -- 25. Sketch for a theory of conservative Protestant politics / Roy Wallis and Steve Bruce -- 26. Do holiness sects socialize in dominant values? / Benton Johnson -- 27. Some explanations for the persistence of Christian religion in Soviet society / Christel Lane -- 28. Pursuit of the millennium : the relation between religious and social change / Yonina Talmon.

ISBN

• 1852788992
• 9781852788995

LCCN

95024271

OCLC

• ocm32822208
• 32822208
• SCSB-2113567

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library