1st Edition
The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology
By Joseph A. Scimecca
Copyright 2024
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides a rationale for a Christian sociology, challenging the materialist epistemology of contemporary sociology, which provides only a limited understanding of social behavior. Developing a history of the origins of sociology that recognizes the centrality of Christianity to the discipline’s development, it considers the secularization thesis and questions surrounding positivism,... Read more
Introduction 1. Christianity and a Brief Prehistory of Sociology 2. Sociology as a Substitute for Christianity 3. Sociology Comes to the United States 4. Positivism, Scienticism and the Rejection of a Moral Sociology 5. The Secularization Thesis 6. The Default Position of the Intelligentsia: Postmodernism and Scientific Materialism 7. A New Sociology of Religion? 8. The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology
Biography
Joseph A. Scimecca is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Christianity and Sociological Theory: Reclaiming the Promise, Society and Freedom: An Introduction to Humanist Sociology, Education and Society and The Sociological Theory of C. Wright Mills, the co-author of Classical Sociological Theory: Rediscovering the Promise of Sociology and Sociology: Analysis and Application, and the co-editor of Conflict Resolution: Cross Cultural Perspectives.
