Acts of faith [[electronic resource] ] : explaining the human side of religion / / Rodney Stark and Roger Finke |
Autore | Stark Rodney |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.6 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FinkeRoger <1954-> |
Soggetto topico | Religion and sociology |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
agnosticism anthropology atheism belief catholicism christian ethics faith human nature ideology modern religion modern world morals mormonism orthodoxy philosophy religion religious groups religious leaders religious sects religious studies research scholarly science secular social science social scientists social studies sociology supernatural world religion |
ISBN |
1-283-32074-6
9786613320742 0-520-92434-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Atheism, Faith, and the Social Scientific Study of Religion -- 1. A New Look at Old Issues -- 2. Rationality and the "Religious Mind" -- 3. Secularization, R.I.P. -- 4. The Micro Foundations of Religion -- 5. Religious Choices: Conversion and Reaffiliation -- 6. Religious Group Dynamics -- 7. Catholic Religious Vocations: Decline and Revival -- 8. A Theoretical Model of Religious Economies -- 9. Religious Competition and Commitment: An International Assessment -- 10. Church-to-Sect Movements -- APPENDIX: Propositions and Definitions -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781441203321 |
Stark Rodney
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Outside the Fold : Conversion, Modernity, and Belief / / Gauri Viswanathan |
Autore | Viswanathan Gauri |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 332 p. ) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 291.42 |
Soggetto topico |
Konversion
Religion Conversion |
Soggetto genere / forma | Comparative studies. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Advaitism
Anabaptists Anglicanism Bengal Regulations Brahmo Samaj Calvinism Catholics Darwinism Fabian socialism Gorham judgment House of Commons Jainism Jesus Christ Legislative Council administrative rationality age (chronological) agnosticism alienation anarchy backsliding biographical fallacy blasphemy church rates class consciousness colonialism cosmopolitanism dalits democracy disestablishment ecclesiastical authority egalitarianism ethnocentrism excommunication feminism foundationalism fundamentalism gnostic mysticism heirship historiography iconoclasm ideology individualism inheritance joint electorates knowledge-production literary form maintenance materialism miscegenation nationalism occultism orthodoxy ostracism |
ISBN | 1-4008-4348-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One DISSENT AND THE NATION -- CHAPTER ONE Cross Currents -- CHAPTER TWO A Grammar of Dissent -- Part Two COLONIAL INTERVENTIONS -- CHAPTER THREE Rights of Passage: Converts' Testimonies -- CHAPTER FOUR Silencing Heresy -- CHAPTER FIVE Ethnographic Plots -- CHAPTER SIX Conversion, Theosophy, and Race Theory -- Part Three THE IMAGINED COMMUNITY -- CHAPTER SEVEN Conversion to Equality -- CHAPTER EIGHT Epilogue: The Right to Belief -- Appendix -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248120703316 |
Viswanathan Gauri
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Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1998 | ||
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