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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
CNN: My Take: Moon's death marks end of an era Eileen Barker, professor emeritus of
sociology of religion at the London School of Economics, explains the significance of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's death.
Sociology of religion shares with the sociology of other activities of man certain problems and, in addition, has its own problems due to the peculiar nature of religious experience and its expression.
This approach was corrected by the founders of the
modern sociology of religion: Fustel de Coulanges and Emile Durkheim, Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart and Max Scheler.
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.
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 the field of
the sociology of religion, the book has the status of being at least a near - classic.
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.
The book also sustains an unobtrusive running argument against the rational - choice - driven «religious economies» paradigm that has influenced
the sociology of religion in recent years.
His contributions to his discipline were impressively varied: the sociology of knowledge,
the sociology of religion, sociological....
Although Talcott never wrote much about religion,
sociology of religion was probably his greatest lecture course, one that we taught jointly for a while and one that I continue to teach in my own way up to the present.
Prof Bullivant, a professor of theology and
the sociology of religion at St Mary's University, Twickenham, told The Observer newspaper: «We've seen a vast shedding of nominal Christianity, and perhaps it's now down to its hardcore.»
Wuthnow is a well - regarded senior scholar in
the sociology of religion and culture.
It is less inclined toward the psychology of religion or
the sociology of religion than toward the theology of personhood and the theology of society.
His second criticism is that many contemporary theologians work on the premises of
sociology of religion and accept the inevitability of technology.
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?
One of the most astute observers of the American religious scene is Wade Clark Roof, now professor of
sociology of religion at the University of California at Santa Barbara..