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Scholars from various fields of study have long dealt with the relationship between religion and science. This subject has found a particular expression in sociology. Sociologists and other scholars agree that even though religion and science can be seen as separate from each other, there are several commonalities between the two. The common ground between Bellah, Giddens, and Habermas – the meaningful position the Subject has/should have in constructing the social reality – brings to light a transition in the sociological theoretical arena, if we take into account the different theoretical roots of each scholar – Functionalism (Bellah), Positivism (Giddens), and Neo-Kantian (Habermas).
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'The Anthem Companion to Robert Bellah' is the first major collection of writings on the life and work of one of the foremost twentieth-century sociologists of religion. Bellah's work was central in many fields: the sociology of Japanese religion, the relationships between sociology and the humanities, the relationship between American religion and politics, the cultures of modern individualism, and evolution and society. His seminal work on civil religion in the early 1970s created a huge debate across disciplines which continues to this day. His co-authored book 'Habits of the Heart' (1985) was a bestseller and the object of sustained debated in the general public sphere; his last magnum opus 'Religion in Human Evolution', published at 84, was a monument to an extraordinary scholarly and intellectual career. The richness of Bellah's work is the object of this collection of essays by top American and European scholars from the social sciences and humanities. Each essay has a double character: it introduces a single topic in an accessible and complete manner, and then presents a reflection on the viability and import of Bellah's ideas for interpreting contemporary phenomena.
Religion and sociology. --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Bellah, Robert N.
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Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx of new immigrant religions has revitalized standard faiths and drawn in those who had strayed from them. Popular television shows like "The Simpsons" feature characters who go to church every Sunday and speak to God; special events, like the 1998 outdoor mass in Worcester, Massachusetts, for a comatose girl believed to have miraculous powers, attract thousands of people. This collection is both part of this ferment and an intellectual reflection upon it. Religion and Cultural Studies features essays by major scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, literary criticism, and religion in order to enrich critical discourse about religion and culture. Despite the variety of disciplines represented by this group of scholars and the variety of cultures explored in their essays--from fifteenth-century Flemish asceticism and nineteenth-century African-American spiritualism to Russian blood-libel trials and Alien Abduction Reports in the twentieth century--their common ground is the question of religion's place in current American academic analysis, and more broadly in American life today. The volume's range of vocabulary and subject matter is aimed at vitalizing scholarly interest in the field of religion and cultural studies and deepening intellectual inquiry in the contemporary academy. The contributors are Eytan Bercovitch, Karen McCarthy Brown, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Richard Wightman Fox, Jenny Franchot, Giles Gunn, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Bruce B. Lawrence, Jack Miles, Susan L. Mizruchi, and Jonathan Z. Smith.
Religion and culture --- Religion and culture. --- United States --- Religion. --- Abraham. --- Acosta, Jose. --- Alexander the Great. --- Appadurai, Arjun. --- Aristotle. --- Arnold, Matthew. --- Bachelard, Gaston. --- Barthes, Roland. --- Bellah, Robert. --- Bhabha, Homi. --- Bradford, William. --- Brown, John. --- Cameron, William. --- Carver, Raymond. --- Castells, Manuel. --- Chance, David. --- Comstock, Anthony. --- Cooper, James Fenimore. --- Cunningham, Merce. --- Day, Dorothy. --- Delbanco, Andrew. --- Diamond, Jared. --- Doctor, Laura Parker. --- Duden, Barbara. --- Eagleton, Terry. --- Eastman, Max. --- Eliot, George. --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo. --- Euclid. --- Falk, Candace. --- Fiedler, Leslie. --- Flaubert, Gustave. --- Fraser, Nancy. --- Frye, Northrup. --- Gaylin, Willard. --- Goldman, Emma. --- Greeley, Horace. --- Hall, David. --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. --- Hill, Barney. --- Homer. --- Ingold, Tim. --- Jameson, Fredric. --- Jones, William. --- Kern, Stephen. --- Klaw, Spencer. --- Kuspit, Donald. --- Lawrence, Peter. --- Masuzawa, Tomoko. --- Morgan, Alfred Gray. --- Morrison, Toni. --- Nash, June C. --- Noah.
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