Religion and Advanced Industrial Society
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Advanced Industrial Society
Ascetic Protestantism
Author_James A. Beckford
Bell's Thesis
Bell’s Thesis
Berger's Analysis
Berger’s Analysis
Capital Punishment
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Civil Religion
Comte's Religion
Comte’s Religion
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Functionalist Postulates
Generalized Symbolic Media
Late Capitalist Societies
Life World Distinction
Luhmann's Understanding
Luhmann’s Understanding
Mainstream Sociology Journals
Marxist perspectives religion
Metaphysical Pathos
modernity studies
Ordinary Human Reason
Overburdening
religion in capitalist societies analysis
Religious Research Association
secularisation theory
social differentiation
Social Exclusiveness
Social Reproduction
Social System
Socioeconomic Development
sociology of religion
Talcott Parsons critique
Techno Economic Structure
Vice Versa
West Germany
Yale College
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- ISBN 9780367024666
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book, first published in 1989, demonstrates that sociologists have much to gain from a strengthening of the connections between general theories about the changing character of modern western societies and specific studies of religion. It combines an exegesis of sociological classics in the study of religion, and a history of their influence upon the subject’s development; a criticism of Talcott Parson’s attempt to synthesise classical viewpoints into a single theory of modernity; a discussion of post-Parsonian theories of religion’s declining importance; and an argument that some quasi-Marxist thinkers may offer fresh insights into the place of religion in capitalist societies.
