The manuscript is divided into two parts. In the first part the author examines religion from the social perspective the common features of religion various approaches to the study of religion its role in society in the cultural sector in the political sector in t... Lees meer.

Widely considered the founding-father of Sociology Sarah Farris s excellently argued book shows that Max Weber was also deeply orientalist. Max Weber. s Theory Of Personality argues that the concept and problematic of personality plays a pivotal role within these wo... Lees meer.

How and why did The Sacred Canopy by Peter L. Berger 1929 2017 become a classic. How have scholars used Berger s ideas over the past 50 years since its publication. How are these ideas relevant to the future of the sociology of religion. Peter L. Berger and the Soc... Lees meer.

The Hasidim of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn separate themselves not only from non-Jews and unreligious Jews but also from religious Orthodox Jews whose religious ideology intensity and frequency of traditional religious behavior do not meet Hasidic standards.... Lees meer.

This is an unusual and extremely timely collective effort. It appears at a moment inwhich Israelis not only must confront their Arab neighbors but must deal with one another as Jews possessing radically different views on the present and future of the Jewish tradition... Lees meer.

Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http. www.taylorfrancis.com books e 9780429431197 Focused on the emergence of US President Donald Tr... Lees meer.

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This introductory text challenges current sociological thought and explores the historical and contemporary relevance of religion to social life through an examination of practice and belief. This introductory text explores the historical and contemporary relevance... Lees meer.

Prayer is a central aspect of religion. Even amongst those who have abandoned organized religion levels of prayer remain high. Yet the most basic questions remain unaddressed. What exactly is prayer. How does it vary. Why do people pray and in what situations and set... Lees meer.

This book helps explain some of Max Weber s key concepts such as charisma asceticism mysticism pariah-people prophets salvation and theodicy and places them within the context of Weber s sociology of religion. This book helps explain some of Max Weber s key con... Lees meer.

The book intervenes into the contemporary debate on religion politics and economy focusing on the field of formation which emerges as these seemingly autonomous spheres encounter one another. Empirically it concentrates on examples from literature theatre and cin... Lees meer.

Based on extensive research among Cistercian monks and nuns this book examines social relations in monasteries examining the ways in which collective rituals and manual work both foster solidarity and create division and developing a novel far-reaching conceptualiza... Lees meer.

Religion in the contemporary west is undergoing rapid change. In Predicting Religion twenty experts in the study of religion present their predictions about the future of religion in the 21st century - predictions based on careful analysis of the contemporary religious... Lees meer.

The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solution took the lives of approximately six million Jews amounting to roughly 60 percent of European Jewry and a third of the world s Jewish population The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solution... Lees meer.

Ziel dieser ersten Gesamtdarstellung der Religionssoziologie Niklas Luhmanns ist die immanent-kritische Rekonstruktion seiner Religionstheorie und die Ableitung ihrer Leitlinien aus dem Konstruktionsplan seiner allgemeinen Theorie sozialer Systeme. Die Intention seines... Lees meer.