Society, Spirituality, and the Sacred : A Social Scientific Introduction, Second Edition

Swenson, Donald S.

University of Toronto Press（2009/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 464 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780802096807
• DDC分類 306.6

Full Description

In Society, Spirituality, and the Sacred, Swenson draws on both Weber's Charisma and Routinization of Charisma and Thomas O'Dea's Dilemmas of the Institutionalization of Religion to reveal how religion has both a positive and negative effect on people. Moving from the individual experience of the sacred to the more institutional religious experience, the book explores the many manifestations of religious life and offers a synthesis of folk religions, new religions, the New Age Movement, and the challenges posed by the secularization of contemporary life. This approach to studying the sociology of religion offers a more challenging and provocative opportunity for students compared to other texts on the market.

The second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to integrate the latest developments in the field and to offer a more global approach to the study of religion. New chapters on women and religion and new religious movements have been added and discussions of Islam, indigenous religions and postmodernism have been significantly expanded.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Part One: World Views, Social Boundaries, Religious Experiences, and Institutions

1. The Definitional and Theoretical Bases for the Social Scientific Study of Religion  

2. Religious Experience

3. Religious Experience and Social Institutions

Part Two: The Dilemmas in the Institutionalization of Religion

4. The Dilemma of Interpretation: Religion as a World View: The Study of Mythologies

5. The Dilemma of Mixed Motivation: The Study of Sacred Leadership

6. The Dilemmas of Interpretation and Mixed Motivation: The Study of Women as Leaders

7. The Symbolic Dilemma: The Study of Ritual

8. The Dilemma of Administrative Order: The Rise of Sacred Organizations

9. The Dilemma of Delimitation: The Study of Ethos

10. The Relationship Between Religion and Politics, Part One: Casearopapism and Hierocracy

11. The Relationship Between Religion and Politics, Part Two: Alternative Links

Part Three: Linking Religion to Other Institutions

12. Religions and the Economy

13. The Encounter With Culture: Secularization and Postmodernism

Conclusion

Glossary

References

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