RT Article
T1 Sociologie du christianisme et théologie
JF Social compass
VO 10
IS 3
SP 285
OP 292
A1 Mehl, Roger 1912-1997
LA English
PB Sage
YR 1963
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1667540394
AB The author attempts to calm fears which arise, among ecclesiastical authorities and faithful, from explanation and analysis in the field of the sociology of religion. In so far as the Church is at the same time a temporal and spiritual society the sociology of religious groups complements the field of theology. But springing from an empirical science, the results of sociological investigation, given the complexity of religious phenomina remain relative. Such investigation however usefully underliness the fact that the Church exists « in the world ».
DO 10.1177/003776866301000302