Sentences with phrase «in sociology of religion»

[jounal] Sherkat, D. E. / 1999 / Recent developments and current controversies in the sociology of religion / Annual Review of Sociology 25: 363 ~ 394

Few essays have been as widely reprinted in anthologies on the sociology of religion, as routinely cited in textbook discussions of religion, or (I suspect) as commonly required on the reading lists for graduate courses and general examinations in sociology of religion.

One of the most interesting questions in the sociology of religion today is not, How do you explain fundamentalism in Iran?

Cecilia Loreto Mariz received her Ph.D. in the sociology of religion from Boston University.

Given the clarity and power of its prose, Geertz's essay was important in its own right; nevertheless, it entered an ongoing stream of theoretical discourse in the sociology of religion, and, like any such contribution, its significance lay not only in what it said but also in what others read into it.

work in the sociology of religion.

A rising star in the sociology of religion, Wilcox thinks there is much to admire in the new fatherhood.

In the United States interest in the sociology of religion was stimulated by the encyclopedic tendencies of the earlier sociologists (William Graham Sumner, Albert G. Keller, Edward A. Ross) 19 and by the work of historical and systematical social theology (Francis G. Peabody, Charles A. Ellwood, Shailer Mathews, Shirley J. Case).

On the whole, the idea of religion as sacred canopy has not yet been tested sufficiently to suggest that its merits outweigh those of several other contending approaches in the sociology of religion.

And yet it is one of the most important tests for office,» said Jose Casanova, an expert in the sociology of religion at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, who also spoke at the release of the survey results.

I had no idea what a theology of institutions would be, and I assumed that if there was anything to be done on such a topic, it was the task of my colleagues in sociology of religion or Christian ethics.

Jackson W. Carroll and Wade Clark Roof, researchers in the sociology of religion (at Duke University Divinity School and at the University of California — Santa Barbara), analyze three age categories — pre-boomers (born prior to 1946), boomers (born 1946 - 1964) and Gen Xers (born between 1965 and 1980)-- who according to Carroll and Roof have profoundly different expectations of the church and of religion.

In this light it is significant that four years after the appearance of After Virtue came a landmark study in the sociology of religion, Habits of the Heart.

Based on this, I believe that the greatest discoveries (with respect to the CO2 - hypo / AGW) to come will be found by scholars in the sociology of religions.

Not exact matches

Roof, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, and McKinney, professor of religion and society at Hartford Seminary, are interested not in issuing a jeremiad or an apology about the state of American religion, but in ascertaining just how the landscape of American religion is being altered.

In the winter of 1954, Will Herberg, the best untrained sociologist in America, turned his attention to the sociology of American religioIn the winter of 1954, Will Herberg, the best untrained sociologist in America, turned his attention to the sociology of American religioin America, turned his attention to the sociology of American religion.

My discipline is sociology and religion and in this capacity I taught at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

For while, to the popular mind, natural selection conveyed a sanctioning of competitiveness and assertiveness in the interest of survival, to the more specialized mind in psychology and sociology and in the study of religion, it revealed the decisive role of environment and the importance of functional adaptation.

I cherish instead the notion that if we could understand not only the sociology and psychology of religion but also the religion of religion; if we could get at the roots of conviction in the lives of profound believers in the open society; if we could combine civility with devotion — if we could do these things, religious forces might retrieve some initiative and offer examples for coexistence in the world of the nations and the military powers.

To cite one example: in using Peter Berger's A Rumor of Angels as a text for a sociology and religion course, I was amazed to read that «it was Protestantism that first underwent the onslaught of secularization» (p. 15).

The leading question in every course dealing with any subject matter must be this: How does this subject matter (be it «logic, or Mexican - American history, or the sociology of religion») contribute to assessing the validity of Christian witness?

Halík has advocated the importance of interfaith dialogue and religious tolerance in his writings and lectures, both as professor of sociology of religion at Charles University, Prague, and in his work with the Czech Christian Academy.

It is nourished by those scholars, who have had competence in philology, historical criticism, literary criticism, Philosophy, Sociology and History of Religions.

That is to say, sociology of religion shares with the sociology of other activities of man certain problems and, in addition, has its own due to the peculiar nature of religious experience and its expression.

That does not mean that major contributions toward an inquiry into the nature of socioreligious phenomena were not made long before, but as an organized systematic discipline (emancipated from the older disciplines in and from which it developed) the sociology of religion is of recent date.

Analysis of the nature and structure of society as well as of religion is carried out in the disciplines dedicated to this purpose (general sociology, theology, and philosophy of religion).

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

Despite its influence in the discipline, The Sacred Canopy has been superseded by many contributions to the sociology of religion in more recent years.

In addition to the problems which the sociology of religion inherits from the two parental disciplines, it has its own peculiar difficulties and tasks.

In contemporary sociology, Weber has often been a source of inspiration for interpretive, ethnographic, and historical approaches to religion advanced in opposition to narrowly reductionistic, positivistic research designIn contemporary sociology, Weber has often been a source of inspiration for interpretive, ethnographic, and historical approaches to religion advanced in opposition to narrowly reductionistic, positivistic research designin opposition to narrowly reductionistic, positivistic research designs.

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.»

The sociology of racial segregation in religion is an expression and manifestation of theology of separation (sin) of the church.

«Festivals and pilgrimages,» I have said in another context, «are outstanding occasions, for here we find a close interrelation between different cultic activities such as purifications, lustrations, prayer, vows, offerings, sacrifices, and processions all of which are of particular interest both to the historian and the sociologist of religion» (Sociology of Religion, p. 42).

As a social scientist Berger avoids taking the position that religion is an irreducible reality sui generis (i.e., in a class all its own), as does someone like Ninian Smart, the popular professor of comparative religions, in his book The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge (1973).

In France and in Germany the so - called sociology of religion has evolveIn France and in Germany the so - called sociology of religion has evolvein Germany the so - called sociology of religion has evolved.

For a competent handling of subjects which pertain to the domain of psychology, sociology of religion etc., a solid grounding in methodology and, generally, an acquaintance with the results of scholarship in the respective field has to be expected.

Kaplan read widely in the fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology, and comparative religion, and kept abreast of advances in liberal Protestant as well as Jewish thought.

But in most serious theology and the best sociology of religion, the mutually rejecting tendencies of Dionysius and Apollo, or of Rousseau and Kant, or of faith and science, are not taken with ultimate seriousness.

One might then as well set up the thesis that the interest in mechanics, physics, chemistry, logic, philosophy, and sociology, which springs up during adolescent years along with that in poetry and religion, is also a perversion of the sexual instinct: - but that would be too absurd.

It is impossible to achieve more than superficial correlation of studies in the history and philosophy of religion, in psychology and sociology, with the older disciplines, unless the relations of the Church to religion in general, to the particular religions and to secular culture have been intelligibly defined.

The contributions on the one hand of Biblical, historical and systematic theology, of history, the sociology of religion and the theology of culture; and on the other, the practical experiments and experiences in ecumenical, national, municipal and parish organization of church life, will, one may hope, eventually be brought together in some kind of temporary historical synthesis.

The American pattern of a religion department in a state university is totally different from the German model, though a few small departments for the study of comparative religions and the sociology and philosophy of religion exist in various German universities.

Opportunities for graduate study and research in the religions of Asia have expanded rapidly in the United States and Europe since the war, using the techniques of linguistics, history, literary criticism, sociology, anthropology, psychology, the arts, theology, and philosophy.

Oh, and I have and continually do study - World Religions (besides study in Christian theology), Philosophies, Psychology, Sociology, etc.... Would my / and the rest of the gang's opinions still not count...?

Though Reza's PhD is in sociology most of his graduate course work at UCSB was in the history of religion in the dept of religious studies.

The problem is not one of chemistry in separation from sociology or both in separation from economics, or even of all three in separation from philosophy and religion.

I have scholarly training in the study of religion — more than one degree in it, including my Ph.D. in sociology — and I have written mostly about Islam up until now.

That allowed me to show why various subject matters that ought to be studied by a theological school (e.g., Bible, Christian history, theology, psychology and sociology of religion, etc.) are best studied in their theological significance (i.e., as means to understanding God) by studying them in their relation to the common life of actual congregations.

(I am a sociologist of religion with a position in sociology and an affiliation with religious studies).

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.