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Article: Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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Arpad Szakolczai. Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance.
Routledge Advances in Sociology 25. London: Routledge, 2007. xviii + 396 pp. index. bibl. $110. ISBN: 0-415-37196-1.
Sociology, Religion and Grace is, the author informs us, a work of interpretive sociology in the tradition of Weber and Durkheim, but the result is quite unlike what we might expect. In his interpretive sociology, historical and cultural facts are individual building blocks. He does not create a context in which we might understand a language, a lived religion, or even a work of art; rather, he uses his definition of a Renaissance to create a critique of what has ...