Everyday Religion
Observing Modern Religious Lives
Social scientists sometimes seem not to know what to do with religion. In the first century of sociology's history as a discipline, the reigning concern was explaining the emergence of the modern world, and that brought with it an expectation that religion would simply fade from the scene as societies became diverse, complex, and enlightened. As the century approached its end, however, a variety of global phenomena remained dramatically unexplained by these theories. Among the leading contenders for explanatory power to emerge at this time were rational choice theories of religious behavior. Researchers who have spent time in the field obser…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-988548-0
- EAN: 9780199885480
- Produktnummer: 20626594
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 412 KB
Über den Autor
Nancy T. Ammerman is Professor of Sociology of Religion, School of Theology, and Professor of Religion at Boston University. She is the past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
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