Research Catalog

Title

The religious factor; a sociological study of religion's impact on politics, economics, and family life. By Gerhard Emmanuel Lenski.

Author

Lenski, Gerhard, 1924-2015.

Publication

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1961.

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Details

Description

xvi, 381 pages : forms, tables; 22 cm

Subject

• Detroit Mich
• Religion and sociology > Case studies
• Religion
• Sociology
• Religion and sociology
• Economics > Religious aspects
• Religion
• Sociology
• religion (discipline)
• sociology
• sociology of religion
• Economics > Religious aspects
• Religion and sociology
• Religionssoziologie
• Godsdienstsociologie
• Religion > Case studies > Detroit (Mich.)
• Detroit (Mich.) > Religion > Case studies
• Michigan > Detroit
• Detroit, Mich

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

I. Introduction to the Study -- 1. Background of the Study -- 2. Design of the Study -- 3. An introduction to Detroit -- II. The Four Socio-Religious Groups -- 1. Strength of Group Ties -- 2. Religious Orientations -- 3. Intergroup Images -- 4. Distribution of the Groups in Community -- III. Religion and Economics -- 1. Socio-Religious Group Membership and Economic Behavior -- 2. Group Involvement and Economic Behavior -- 3. Religious Orientations and Economic Behavior -- 4. Economic Determinism Re-examined -- IV. Religion and Politics -- 1. Socio-Religious Group Membership and Political Behavior -- 2. Group Involvement and Political Behavior -- 3. Religious Orientation and Political Behavior -- 4. A Footnote on "Liberalism" -- V. Religion and Family Life -- 1. Socio-Religious Group Membership and Family Life -- 2. Group Involvement and Family Life -- 3. Orthodoxy, Devotionalism, and Family Life -- 4. A Concluding Note on Family Life and Vertical Mobility -- VI. Religion, Education and Science -- 1. Educational Attainments in the four groups -- 2. The consequences of attending Catholic Schools -- 3. Religion and Science -- VII. The Clergy -- 1. Social Origins of the Clergy -- 2. Theological Commitments of the Clergy -- 3. The Clergy and the Subcommunities -- 4, Social Values of the Clergy -- 5. The Significance of these Data -- VIII. Conclusions -- 1. Summary of Findings -- 2. The Findings in Theological Perspective -- 3. Application of Our Theoretical Perspective -- 4. Weber in Retrospect -- 5. Implications for the future.

LCCN

61009197

OCLC

• ocm00656217
• 656217
• SCSB-275519

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library