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Kieran Flanagan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Reflexivity, Ethics and the Teaching of the Sociology of Religion
Sociology, 2001Co-Authors: Kieran FlanaganAbstract:This essay reflects on the ethical and reflexive considerations surrounding the use of student fieldwork reports on a course on the Sociology of Religion. Using reflexivity as a teaching strategy coincides with changes in sociological approaches to Religion where experiential and substantive issues are stressed in its study. Reflexive and ethical issues that emerge on courses on sexuality and gender politics are compared to those which seem peculiar to the teaching of Religion from a sociological perspective. Study of these fieldwork reports disclosed the way students faced their own ethical worries in a task generated to enhance their own reflexivity but also an understanding of religiosity.
Anthony J. Blasi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sociology of Religion in America: A History of a Secular Fascination with Religion
2014Co-Authors: Anthony J. BlasiAbstract:Introduction (by William H. Swatos Jr.) Author's Introduction Ch. 1. Doctoral Dissertations in the Sociology of Religion, 1895-1959. Ch. 2. Articles in the Sociology of Religion, 1964-1984. Ch. 3. Religion in American Community Studies. Ch. 4. Research Organizations. Ch. 5. Professional Associations Ch. 6. Observations Appendix I: List of American Dissertations in the Sociology of Religion, 1895-1959. Appendix II: Origins of the American Catholic Society and the American Catholic Sociological Review References
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2 Articles in the Sociology of Religion, 1964–1984
Sociology of Religion in America, 2014Co-Authors: Anthony J. BlasiAbstract:The journal Sociology of Religion began in 1940 as the American Catholic Sociological Review. By the 1960s there appeared to be less of a distinctively Catholic Sociology at the meetings of the sponsoring organization, the American Catholic Sociological Society, and in its journal, though there was an interest among the membership in the Sociology of Religion and of Catholicism. A Reader in the Sociology of Religion, edited by Louis Schneider (1964), was a college text for use in upper level undergraduate courses. What is more relevant to the Sociology of Religion is Marx's general Sociology of knowledge, wherein ideological productions make the experienced everyday world comprehensible. The emergence of Marxian theory as an interest in Sociology and the Berger/Luckmann approach to the Sociology of knowledge resulted in the Sociology of knowledge being applied in the Sociology of Religion.Keywords: American Catholic Sociological Review; catholicism; Marxian theory; Sociology of Religion
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1 Doctoral Dissertations in the Sociology of Religion, 1895–1959
Sociology of Religion in America, 2014Co-Authors: Anthony J. BlasiAbstract:This chapter focuses on people who conducted classes about Sociology in institutions of higher education ("professors of Sociology") and the dissertations they wrote. Books in Sociology had been published since the 1830s in Europe, but what counts as a book varies greatly. The category includes collections of articles, doctoral dissertations published as books, monographs, government reports, and pamphlets. The chapter addresses what theoretical positions and traditions informed the early dissertations in the Sociology of Religion. The chapter also addresses who were considered important enough sociologists for their conceptual frameworks and theoretical arguments to be cited in these works. The single dissertation in the Sociology of Religion from the 1890s cited the social evolutionists William Graham Sumner and the Englishman Herbert Spencer. The 1950s saw the introduction of comparisons of means with significance tests, content analysis, and factor analysis in the dissertations.Keywords: American Sociology of Religion; doctoral dissertations; Englishman Herbert Spencer; William Graham Sumner
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American Sociology of Religion - American Sociology of Religion: Histories
2007Co-Authors: Anthony J. BlasiAbstract:First ever collection of histories of American Sociology of Religion, including accounts of early dissertations changes in theory, and studies of denominations, globalization, feminism, new Religions and Latino/a American Religion.
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Manual or History? Roberto Cipriani's Sociology of Religion
International Journal of Politics Culture and Society, 2002Co-Authors: Anthony J. BlasiAbstract:Roberto Cipriani's history of the Sociology of Religion begins with philosophical predecessors and works its way through the major writing of numerous nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars. It places a great deal of valuable information between two covers. One can argue with the way many of the authors are grouped together, however—something that can cause problems for students. And some important personages in the field, especially women who have made contributions, are omitted.
Bryan S. Turner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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talcott parsons s Sociology of Religion and the expressive revolution the problem of western individualism
Journal of Classical Sociology, 2005Co-Authors: Bryan S. TurnerAbstract:Immanuel Kant distinguished between Religion as cult in which people seek favours from God through prayer and offerings to bring healing and wealth, and Religion as moral action that commands human beings to change their lives. Kant further defined Religion as a ‘reflecting faith’ or ‘moralizing faith’ that compels humans to strive for salvation through faith alone. The Kantian distinction was fundamental to Max Weber’s view of the relationship between asceticism and capitalism. Talcott Parsons’s early Sociology of Religion engaged with this theme in Kant and Weber, but in his later work Parsons came to a re-appraisal of Emile Durkheim. In the concept of the expressive revolution, Parsons followed Durkheim in studying individualism as a major transformation of society. There is, however, a contradiction between individualism as either the legacy of Protestant pietism or the product of modern consumerism.Parsons’s Sociology of Religion remains distinctive because he did not subscribe to the secularization ...
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Talcott Parsons’s Sociology of Religion and the Expressive Revolution: The Problem of Western Individualism
Journal of Classical Sociology, 2005Co-Authors: Bryan S. TurnerAbstract:Immanuel Kant distinguished between Religion as cult in which people seek favours from God through prayer and offerings to bring healing and wealth, and Religion as moral action that commands human beings to change their lives. Kant further defined Religion as a ‘reflecting faith’ or ‘moralizing faith’ that compels humans to strive for salvation through faith alone. The Kantian distinction was fundamental to Max Weber’s view of the relationship between asceticism and capitalism. Talcott Parsons’s early Sociology of Religion engaged with this theme in Kant and Weber, but in his later work Parsons came to a re-appraisal of Emile Durkheim. In the concept of the expressive revolution, Parsons followed Durkheim in studying individualism as a major transformation of society. There is, however, a contradiction between individualism as either the legacy of Protestant pietism or the product of modern consumerism.Parsons’s Sociology of Religion remains distinctive because he did not subscribe to the secularization ...
Christopher G. Ellison - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND CURRENT CONTROVERSIES IN THE Sociology of Religion
Annual Review of Sociology, 1999Co-Authors: Darren E. Sherkat, Christopher G. EllisonAbstract:The Sociology of Religion is experiencing a period of substantial organizational and intellectual growth. Recent theoretical and empirical papers on the Sociology of Religion appearing in top journals in Sociology have generated both interest and controversy. We begin with a selective overview of research on religious beliefs and commitments. Second, we investigate the influence of Religion on politics, the family, health and well-being, and on free space and social capital. Finally, we review rational choice theories in the Sociology of Religion and the controversies surrounding applications of these perspectives.
Joseph A. Varacalli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sociology of Religion contemporary developments an exploratory critique from a catholic sociological sensibility
The Catholic Social Science Review, 2011Co-Authors: Joseph A. VaracalliAbstract:This review essay provides an exploratory critique of one prominent contemporary Sociology of Religion textbook from the perspective of a Catholic sociological sensibility. It is written with the projection that the critique could eventually be expanded into a more systematic and exhaustive review of other major textbooks in the field. The textbook is analyzed in light of eight fundamental questions.
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Sociology of Religion: CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS—AN EXPLORATORY CRITIQUE FROM A CATHOLIC SOCIOLOGICAL SENSIBILITY
Catholic Social Science Review, 2011Co-Authors: Joseph A. VaracalliAbstract:This review essay provides an exploratory critique of one prominent contemporary Sociology of Religion textbook from the perspective of a Catholic sociological sensibility. It is written with the projection that the critique could eventually be expanded into a more systematic and exhaustive review of other major textbooks in the field. The textbook is analyzed in light of eight fundamental questions.