The Blackwell companion to sociology of religion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard K. Fenn

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Blackwell Publishers, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (508 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.6
• Soggetto topico: Religion and sociology; Religion
• Altri autori: FennRichard K
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Blackwell companion to sociology of religion
• ISBN: 1-4051-6657-6; 1-78268-642-8; 1-281-31249-5; 9786611312497; 0-470-99857-1; 0-470-99856-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996213951103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions to religion ; ; 2.