Administrators worry that doctoral students increasingly will be trained in the history
of religion or comparative religions rather than in Bible,
theology, ethics, church history and practical studies — the
traditional fields of theological education.
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.»