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Religion in secular society : fifty years on /
A reissue Religion in Secular Society (1966) by Bryan Wilson (1926-2004), a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford for thirty years and one of the leading sociologists of religion of the twentieth century.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Religion in Secular Society: Fifty Years On; Copyright; Contents; Introduction to New Edition; A Biographical Introduction; Religion in Secular Society: Style and Key Themes; Style; Secularization; American Exceptionalism; Ecumenism, Sects, and Denominations; Dismal Functionalism; Notes; Religion in Secular Society; Introductory; Notes; Part I: The Pattern of Secularization; 1: Statistical Evidence of Secularization in England; Note; 2: Denominationalism and Secularization; Notes; 3: The Social Context of Secularization; Notes; 4: Religion and Other Social Institutions; Notes
- 5: Secularization and the Clerical ProfessionNotes; Part II: Secularization in America; 6: Religion in America: A Contrasting Pattern; Notes; 7: Religion and Status: America and England; Notes; Part III: The Religious Response; 8: The Clergy and Ecumenicalism; Note; 9: The Ecumenical Implications of Christian Expansion; Notes; 10: Ecumenicalism and the Denominations; Part IV: The Sectarian and Denominational Alternative; 11: The Origins and Functions of Sects; Notes; 12: Emerging Denominations and Persisting Sects; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix; The Condition of Nonconformity
- Selected BibliographyGeneral Works in the Sociology of Religion; Secularization; Ecumenicalism; Denominationalism and Sectarianism; Other Works; Additional Works; Index; Appendix One: Criticisms of the Secularization Thesis; Introduction; Criticisms Historical and Empirical; Criticisms Theoretical; Appendix Two: Fifty Years On; Introduction; Formal Social Institutional Secularization; Rites of Passage; Personal Religiosity; The Clergy; Ecumenism; The Charismatic Movement; Immigration; Conservative Growth in the USA; The Christian Right in the USA; Conclusion