TY - BOOK ID - 30690772 TI - Sociology and the sacred PY - 2005 SN - 1487520662 1281997773 9786611997779 1442680059 0802080189 0802090486 9781442680050 9781487512026 1487512023 9781281997777 9780802080189 9781487520663 6611997776 PB - Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press DB - UniCat KW - Sociology KW - Culture KW - Philosophy. KW - Rieff, Philip, KW - Sociology - Philosophy. KW - Culture - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30690772 AB - Zondervan sets out to remedy this neglect, arguing that Rieff's work is ripe for intellectual reconsideration." "Including material from personal interviews with Rieff that enabled Zondervan to clarify important aspects of his work, Sociology and the Sacred is an essential contribution to the understanding of contemporary culture's maintenance of its ties to religion."--Jacket. "The acclaimed American sociologist and cultural philosopher Philip Rieff gained great academic prestige with his thesis on the emergence of 'Psychological Man' in western culture and with his classic book, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, published in 1959. In this work and in The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966), he not only offered a highly original interpretation of the work of Sigmund Freud, but critically evaluated the enormous influence of psychotherapeutic thinking on Western culture. However, Rieff's later work on the theory of culture did not garner the same attention, and his most recent writings have received very little critical engagement. In Sociology and the Sacred, Antonius A.W. ER -