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Acts of faith : explaining the human side of religion /
Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish-and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Atheism, Faith, and the Social Scientific Study of Religion
- pt. 1. Paradigms in Conflict. 1. A New Look at Old Issues. 2. Rationality and the "Religious Mind" 3. Secularization, R.I.P.
- pt. 2. The Religious Individual. 4. The Micro Foundations of Religion. 5. Religious Choices: Conversion and Reaffiliation
- pt. 3. The Religious Group. 6. Religious Group Dynamics. 7. Catholic Religious Vocations: Decline and Revival
- pt. 4. The Religious Economy. 8. A Theoretical Model of Religious Economies. 9. Religious Competition and Commitment: An International Assessment. 10. Church-to-Sect Movements. Appendix: Propositions and Definitions.