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Peter B. Clarke · 2011
A comprehensive handbook featuring 56 contributions examining the sociology of religion across classical, modern, and postmodern theoretical frameworks, covering topics from secularization and religious diversity to fundamentalism, new religions, and religion's role in social issues.
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What this book knows
Religion persists as a global social force shaping identity, authority, violence, and moral order across every modern institution.
faith-and-doubt
religion's capacity to engender hope that the world can be transformed through messianic beliefs… would appear to be undiminished
OHSR-RC-011experiences of fortune and suffering undermine pragmatic orientation to reality… rationalization of theodicy reached its ultimate fruition in monotheistic religions
OHSR-RC-085obedience-and-authority
Hindu dharma, Islamic sharia, and Confucian notions of Li… covenants with God determine the order of the moral universe
OHSR-RC-041militant jihad and sha… discussed in terms of Girard's annulment of the violent sacred in a religiously pluralistic society
OHSR-RC-031belonging
the sacred… was nothing more mysterious than shared classifications, deeply cherished and violently defended
OHSR-RC-040contest over public space between the secular and the religious is intensifying… religion as private matter versus those gripped by their religion
OHSR-RC-012Illuminates
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