Religion and Social TheorySAGE Publications, 06/09/1991 - 288 من الصفحات The second edition of this major book on the social analysis of religion incorporates a substantial new introduction by Bryan S Turner. Religion and Social Theory assesses the different theoretical approaches to the social function of religion. Turner discusses at length the ideas of key contributors to these approaches (including Engels, Durkheim, Weber, Nietzsche, Freud, Parsons, Marcuse, Habermas and Foucault). In so doing, he develops a distinctive perspective on the role of religion as an institutional link between economic and human reproduction. Social theories of religion are explored through a resolutely comparative and historical analysis of the Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Relating c |
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Introduction to the First Edition I | 1 |
Other Religions | 15 |
Social Cement | 38 |
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Abrahamic religions analysis argued argument asceticism body capitalism capitalist capitalist society charismatic Christianity Church civil religion concept conscience collective consciousness consequences contemporary context contrast critique crucial culture death discipline discourse doctrine dominant class dominant ideology Durkheim economic Engels's ethic exchange existence fetishism feudal forms Foucault functions groups Hasidic human important individual industrial institutions interpretation Islam Jewish Jews Judaism labour legitimacy legitimate Marx and Engels Marx's Marxism means mode of production modern society moral mujtahids mysticism nature Nietzsche Nietzsche's nineteenth century opposition organisation Orientalism peasants perspective philosophy political population principle problem Protestant Protestantism radical rational Rebbe reductionism relations relationship religious beliefs reproduction rituals role sacred secular secularisation sexual Shiism shtetl significance social classes sociologists sociology of religion spiritual structure subordinate Sufism symbols theme theodicy theology theoretical theory thesis traditional Turner urban Weber Weber's sociology western