Peter Berger and the study of religion
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Peter Berger and the study of religion
Routledge, 2001
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- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [199]-208
Includes index
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Description
Peter Berger is the most influential contemporary sociologist of religion. This collection of essays is the first in-depth study of his contribution to the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to his work and to current thought in the study of religion. Themes addressed include:
* Berger on religion and theology
* Religion, spirituality and the discontents of modernity
* Secularization and de-secularization
A postscript by Peter Berger, responding to the essays, completes this overview of this major figure's work.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Constructivism or Confucianism?, Linda Woodhead
- Part 1 Berger on religion and theology
- Chapter 1 Berger: an appreciation, DavidMartin
- Chapter 2 Berger and his collaborator(s), ThomasLuckmann
- Chapter 3 Berger: theology and sociology, Gary Dorrien
- Part 2 Religion, spirituality and the discontents of modernity
- Chapter 4 Homeless minds today?, Paul Heelas, Linda Woodhead
- Chapter 5 A New Age theodicy for a new age, Colin Campbell
- Part 3 Secularization and Sacralization
- Chapter 6 The curious case of the unnecessary recantation: Berger and secularization, Steve Bruce
- Chapter 7 The persistence of institutional religion in modern Europe, Grace Davie
- Chapter 8 The twofold limit of the notion of secularization, Daniele Hervieu-Leger
- Part 4 Signals of transcendence
- Chapter 9 Berger's vision in retrospect, Richard K. Fenn
- Chapter 10 Berger and New Testament Studies, David G. Horrell
- Chapter 11 Berger's anthropological theology
- Chapter 12 Postscript, PeterBerger
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