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Article: Introduction: culture and constraint in the Sociology of Religion.
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- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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The articles included in this issue of Sociology of Religion are all based on papers given at the 2003 meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion in Atlanta, Georgia. They have a common theme: each of them explores the increasing emphasis on culture in sociology as a whole and more especially in the sociology of religion. The "cultural turn," it is often assumed, would open up the sociological agenda, permitting new insights and new ways of looking at the issues. Paradoxically, however (or perhaps not), the following papers deal as much with constraint as they do with new ideas or new approaches. To talk only in terms of a free-floating, late modern and ...