Modern sociology of religion outfits ancient groups with the same features as modem religious organizations (e.g., Rodney Stark's The Rise of Christianity, 1996).
Not exact matches
The first trend
of modern French
sociology of religion is marked by the well - known works
of Emile Durkheim3 and other contemporary writers: Lucien Lévy - Bruhl, Marcel Mauss, and so forth.
As with other fields
of sociological research the question has been asked if there is good enough reason to treat socioreligious phenomena separately instead
of handling them in the traditional disciplines (theology, philosophy, anthropology, etcetera).30 Yet, as against such doubts, the work done by
modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence
of «
sociology of religion.»
Perhaps best known for his text on the
sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues
of development and public policy and in the nature
of religious belief in the
modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question
of Faith in an Age
of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension
of Human Experience.
Through the corporate efforts
of various
modern scientific disciplines such as philosophy, ethnology, prehistory and history, archeology, psychology,
sociology, and philosophy, the methods
of the science
of religion have become increasingly broadened and refined.