Peter Berger and the Study of ReligionPsychology Press, 2001 - 216 עמודים Peter Berger is the most influential contemporary sociologist of religion. This collection of essays is the first in-depth study of his contribution to the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to his work and to current thought in the study of religion. Themes addressed include: * Berger on religion and theology * Religion, spirituality and the discontents of modernity * Secularization and de-secularization A postscript by Peter Berger, responding to the essays, completes this overview of this major figure's work. |
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an appreciation | 11 |
Berger and his collaborators | 17 |
theology and sociology | 26 |
PART II | 41 |
A New Age theodicy for a new age | 73 |
The persistence of institutional religion in modern | 101 |
The twofold limit of the notion of secularization | 112 |
Bergers vision in retrospect | 129 |
Berger and New Testament Studies | 142 |
Bergers anthropological theology | 154 |
Postscript | 189 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Age theodicy Alfred Schutz Amerco argued argument become belief Berger and Luckmann Brigitte Berger Buren Catholic Christian churches collaboration concern Construction of Reality cosmic counterculture cultural damnation detraditionalized divine early empirical ethic Europe European everyday example experience faith Gilkey Gnostic groups Heelas Homeless Mind Horrell human ideas individual intellectual Karstmann Kellner Laïcité Langbein legitimate liberal Linda Woodhead lives mainstream meaning modern societies moral movement neo-conservative neo-orthodoxy notion novel Paul Heelas perspective Peter Berger pluralism political precarious vision primary institutions primary religious institutions problem Protestantism question Raymond recent relation relativism Rumour of Angels Sacred Canopy secondary institutions secularization secularization theory signals of transcendence significance Social Construction social order sociologist sociology of knowledge sociology of religion soft capitalism spiritual Steve Bruce study of religion suggests Swissminiatur symbolic universe taken-for-granted Testament theologians theology theoretical thesis Thomas Luckmann traditional turn Weber writing