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Christianity and Sociological Theory: Reclaiming the Promise book cover

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Christianity and Sociological Theory Reclaiming the Promise

By Joseph A. Scimecca Copyright 2019
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge
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This book offers a history of sociological theory from a Christian perspective, tracing the origins of sociology from the beginnings of Western science as introduced by the Scholastics of the twelfth century, which, when combined with their emphasis on rationality, led to the Enlightenment "science of man"—an emphasis that eventually resulted in sociology, which combined empiricism and a... Read more

Introduction

1. The Scholastics and the Christian Humanists

2. The Enlightenment and the Philosphes

3. Sociology in the Nineteenth Century: St. Simon and Comte

4. Marx and the German Influence

5. Durkheim and the Institutionalization of Sociology

6. Max Weber and Christianity

7. Christianity and Early American Sociology

8. Christianity and Scientific Sociology

9. Contemporary Sociological Theories

10. Reintroducing Christianity into Sociological Theory

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Joseph A. Scimecca is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Society and Freedom: An Introduction to Humanist Sociology, Education and Society and The Sociological Theory of C. Wright Mills, the co-author of Crisis at St. John's: Strike and Revolution on The Catholic Campus, Classical Sociological Theory: Rediscovering the Promise of Sociology and Sociology: Analysis and Application, and the co-editor of Conflict Resolution: Cross Cultural Perspectives.

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