religion

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ......Weber undertook a comparative study of world religions that focused on general attitudes toward the...studies that examined the relationship between religion and other areas of human activity. Chief among...doctrines. In his comparative studies of world religions, Weber pushed this rationalization thesis ...

A matter of faith.(Beyond beliefs: religion)

Harvard International Review;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......by long arguing that religion was destined to be...ethereal values of religion and more with mass...thesis even claimed that religion could be expected to...became better educated. Religions faith, they argued...scientism. If true, the secularization thesis would imply that ...

Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion.(Review)

Social Forces;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Goliath of the secularization thesis dominated the sociology of religion. According...belief in religion. Rejecting the secularization thesis, the new...championed religion's demise...stone at the secularization thesis (chapter...

Religion and identity: the Canadian, American, and Brazilian cases.

International Journal of Comparative Sociology;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......known as 'the secularization thesis' have maintained...weaken the role of religion. The likes of...challenged the secularization thesis. They maintain...established religions may falter. However...crumble, the religion marketplace becomes...about both the secularization ...

Prospects for Religion in the Modern World.

The Ecumenical Review;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......the place or prospects of religion in the modern world depends...explore the relation between :religion and modernity, considering...emerge if the assumptions of secularization can no longer be taken...of Churches itself. The secularization thesis -- the traditional Western...fundamentally ...

Thinking about Religion: An Historical Introduction to Theories of...

The Catholic Historical Review;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...General and Miscellaneous Thinking about Religion: An Historical Introduction to Theories of Religion. By Ivan Strenski. (Malden, Massachusetts...text is not focused on setting out how religion is practiced. Professor Strenski's interest...

Essays on Religion.

The Review of Metaphysics;  December 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...SIMMEL, Georg. Essays on Religion. Edited and Translated by Horst Jurgen...everything Simmel explicitly wrote on religion. The editors arrange the essays thematically...than chronologically, in five parts: Religion and Modernity (chs. 1-3); Religion...

Danger: Philosophy of religion

Philosophy Today;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...At first glance, philosophy of religion might seem to be an unproblematic discipline...is due to the fact that philosophy of religion poses a threat to our accepted notions of philosophy and religion-a threat that lies in the ambiguity of...

Scholars get religion: More academics are starting to see the 'religion...

The Christian Science Monitor;  February 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ......economist at Harvard, he is examining the impact of religions on the economies of nations. It's still a small...well, he says. So he and Rachel McCleary, a religion and philosophy expert, formed the Religion, Political Economy and Society Project. Now...economics and involve other disciplines in basic ...

Putting God on the reading list. (teaching religion in the public schools)

U.S. News & World Report;  July 4, 1988 ;     700+ words ...EDUCATION Religion has played a crucial role in shaping...leaders has launched a new push to put religion back into the classroom. They're not...schools that it is possible to teach about religion without violating the constitutional...

The culture of belief and the politics of religion.

Law and Contemporary Problems;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...WILLIAM P. MARSHALL [*] I INTRODUCTION Religion has stood at the center of the American...of legislation addressing freedom of religion issues in our nation's history. [2] In...to have been caused by the absence of religion from public education. [6] Religiously...

The academy gets religion Scholars tackling subject in relation to...

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 5, 2002 ;     700+ words ......economist at Harvard, he is examining the impact of religions on the economies of nations. It's still a small...well, he says. So he and Rachel McCleary, a religion and philosophy expert, formed the Religion, Political Economy and Society Project. Now...economics and involve other disciplines in basic ...

Sex, Religion, Media

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Sex, Religion, Media. Dane S. Claussen. Lanham, MD...72.50 hbk. $24.95 pbk. The study of religion and media has taken on new legitimacy...launched The Journal of Communication and Religion as early as 1978, serious inquiries into...

Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion

Journal of Biblical Literature;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion, by Jonathan Z. Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press...This latest book by one of the most inspiring theorists of religion fully justifies the high-level expectations of the reader...

Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America.(Review)

Journal of Ecumenical Studies;  March 22, 1997 ;     512 words ...Mark Silk. Public Expressions of Religion in America. Urbana and Chicago: University...Journal-Constitution, has a straightforward thesis: Religion may not be covered the way religionists...twentieth centuries. He writes: Hostility to religion is hardly the order of the day, but the...