304 Pages
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Routledge
281 Pages
by
Routledge
281 Pages
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Routledge
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Religion as Poetry continues in the grand tradition of the sociology of religion pioneered by Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons, among other giants in intellectual history. Too many present-day sociologists either ignore or disparage religious currents. In this provocative book, Andrew M. Greeley argues that various religions have endured for thousands of years as poetic rituals and... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Social Science Theories of Religion; 3: Religion as Poetry; 4: The Faith We Have Lost; 5: The Persistence of Religion; 6: Testing the Links; 7: Different Poetry for Different People; 8: The Pragmatics of Prayer; 9: Religious Stories and Political Stories; 10: Religious Stories and the Environment; 11: Religious Stories and AIDS; 12: Religious Stories and Contact with the Dead; 13: A Story of Two Religious Imaginations; 14: The Development of a Religious Story; 15: Conclusion
Biography
Andrew M. Greeley
