Religion and advanced industrial society
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Religion and advanced industrial society
（Controversies in sociology, 23）
Unwin Hyman, 1989
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Bibliography: p. [173]-182
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780043012284
Description
This book aims to demonstrate that sociologists have much to gain from a strengthening of the connections between general theories about the changing character of modern Western societies and specific studies of religion. The weakness of such connections is indeed one of the most curious features of contemporary sociology. It is as if sociologists of religion were uninterested in theories of, and empirical findings about, recent transformations of industrial society; and writers about secularization, modernization and privatization were determined to consign religion to marginality or insignificance.
Table of Contents
- The isolation of religion
- Religion in classical models of industrial society
- Fallow period and second harvest
- Systems, symbols, societalization, secularization, subjectivity
- Ideology, new social movements and spirituality.
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: pbk ISBN 9780043012291
Description
This book aims to demonstrate that sociologists have much to gain from a strengthening of the connections between general theories about the changing character of modern Western societies and specific studies of religion. The weakness of such connections is indeed one of the most curious features of contemporary sociology. It is as if sociologists of religion were uninterested in theories of, and empirical findings about, recent transformations of industrial society; and writers about secularization, modernization and privatization were determined to consign religion to marginality or insignificance.
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