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Alienated World View
Ascetic Protestantism
Australian Aboriginal Tribes
Author_Malcolm B. Hamilton
belief
belief systems sociology
Buddhism
Calvinist Teaching
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choice
Communal Life Style
comparative religion
conceptions
Contemporary Society
Denser
Divine Light Mission
Emile Durkheim
emotional tension
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Fenn's Work
Fenn’s Work
functionalist analysis
functionalists
General Rewards
Horton's Approach
Horton’s Approach
Kammatic Buddhism
Karl Marx
magic
Max Weber
Millennial Movements
movement
Protestant Ethic Debate
Radcliffe Brown's Ideas
Radcliffe Brown's View
Radcliffe Brown’s Ideas
Radcliffe Brown’s View
rational
rationality
Real Causal Connections
religious
Religious beliefs
religious cults
religious pluralism
religious sects
Rites De Passage
ritual practices
ritual theory
Sacred Cosmos
secularisation
secularisation processes
Secularization
societies
sociological perspectives on faith
sociology
Sociology of religion
solidarity
Specific Compensators
spirituality
Striking diversity
Symbolic Functionalist
taboos
theory
Theravada Buddhism
tribal
Unwelcome Guests
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415226660
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Aug 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This clear introduction to the sociology of religion combines a discussion of key theorists with a modern emphasis on the diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Malcolm Hamilton's expanded second edition brings the discussion fully up-to-date, and extends its material on secularization and religious sects, giving a broad comparative view. Drawing on the insights of history, anthropology and sociology, he surveys classic and contemporary theory to give a full picture of the variety and scope of theoretical perspectives.
Malcolm Hamilton is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Reading. Other publications include Sociology and the World's Religions, Democratic Socialism in Britain and Sweden and Class and Inequality in Comparative Perspective.
