The Blackwell companion to sociology of religion / edited by Richard K. Fenn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fenn, Richard K.

Series:

Blackwell companions to religion ; 2.

Blackwell companions to religion ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (508 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion is presented in three comprehensive parts. Written by a range of outstanding academics, the volume explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look in future.:.; Explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look at the beginning of the next millennium.; Traces the boundaries between sociology and other closely related disciplines, such as theology and social anthropology.; Edited by one of the best known and most widely respected sociologists of religion.; Accessibly presented in three

Contents:

The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I Classical and Contemporary Theory: Recycling, Continuity, Progress, or New Departures?; Editorial Commentary: Religion and the Secular; the Sacred and the Profane: The Scope of the Argument; 1 Personal Reflections in the Mirror of Halévy and Weber; 2 Salvation, Secularization, and De-moralization; 3 The Pentecostal Gender Paradox: A Cautionary Tale for the Sociology of Religion; 4 Feminism and the Sociology of Religion: From Gender-blindness to Gendered Difference

5 Melancholia, Utopia, and the Psychoanalysis of Dreams6 Georg Simmel: American Sociology Chooses the Stone the Builders Refused; 7 Transformations of Society and the Sacred in Durkheim's Religious Sociology; 8 Classics in the Sociology of Religion: An Ambiguous Legacy; 9 Individualism, the Validation of Faith, and the Social Nature of Religion in Modernity; 10 The Origins of Religion; Part II Contemporary Trends in the Relation of R

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611312497

9781405166577

1405166576

9781782686422

1782686428

9781281312495

1281312495

9780470998571

0470998571

9780470998564

0470998563

OCLC:

184984017