Sentences with phrase «modern sociology of religion»

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).

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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.