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Sociological Theory and the Question of Religion book cover

1st Edition

Sociological Theory and the Question of Religion

Edited By Andrew McKinnon, Marta Trzebiatowska Copyright 2014
276 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge
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Religion lies near the heart of the classical sociological tradition, yet it no longer occupies the same place within the contemporary sociological enterprise. This relative absence has left sociology under-prepared for thinking about religion’s continuing importance in new issues, movements, and events in the twenty-first century. This book seeks to address this lacunae by offering a variety of... Read more

Introduction: Thinking Theoretically in the Sociology of Religion
Andrew McKinnon and Marta Trzebiatowska

　

PART I: The State of the Art and Science of the Sociology of Religion

1 Thinking Sociologically about Religion: A Step Change in the Debate?
Grace Davie

2 What Sort of Social Theory Would Benefit the Sociology of Religion?
Steve Bruce

　

PART II: History and Religion

3 The Axial Age Religions: The Debate and its Legacy for Contemporary Sociology
Bryan S. Turner

4 Hope and Religion
David Lehmann

5 The Sacramental Mechanism: Religion and the Civilizing Process in Christian Western Europe with Particular Reference to the Peace of God Movement and its Aftermath
Andrew McKinnon

　

PART III: Religion and Modernity

6 Religion and Monetary Culture in the Sociology of Georg Simmel
Dominika Motak

7 Putting Baby Back in the Bath: Theorising Modernity for the Contemporary Sociology of Religion
Andrew Dawson

　

PART IV: Ethnographies of Listening to Churches: Aesthetics and Rationality

8 Playing the Sensual Card in Churches: Studying the Aestheticization of Religion
Anne Margit Løvland and Pål Repstad

9 Listening Subjects, Rationality and Modernity
Anna Strhan

　

PART V: Power, Gender and Discourse

10 Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Sociology of Religion
Titus Hjelm

11 Beyond Habitus: Researching Gender and Religion through the Ontology of Social Relations
Marta Trzebiatowska

Biography

Andrew McKinnon is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. He has published in numerous journals, particularly on the topic of religion and social theory. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Sociology (Official Journal of the British Sociological Association) and the book series Critical Research in Religion; he is an Associate Editor of both The Canadian Journal of Sociology and of Sociology of Religion. Marta Trzebiatowska is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests include religion and gender, migration and social theory. She has published in the Journal of Contemporary Religion and Sociology. Her recent book (co-authored with Steve Bruce) explores the universal gender gap in religiosity (Why Are Women More Religious Than Men? 2012).

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