Religious Change as a Challenge: Sociological Approaches in the Interpretation and Explanation of Religion
I will demonstrate how religious change repeatedly confronts the sociology of religion with new problems of interpretation and explanation. In the first part (I), I will take a closer look at these problems at a macro sociological level. In doing so, I will provide a brief historical outline and lin...
| Published in: | Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Diagonal-Verlag
[2019]
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Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religious change
/ Religious sociology
/ Religion
/ Meaning
/ Sociological theory
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Explanation of Religion
B theory of religion B Religious change B sociological approaches B Religionstheorie B youth and religion B Erklärung von Religion B Religious Change B soziologische Ansätze B Jugend und Religion |
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| Summary: | I will demonstrate how religious change repeatedly confronts the sociology of religion with new problems of interpretation and explanation. In the first part (I), I will take a closer look at these problems at a macro sociological level. In doing so, I will provide a brief historical outline and link this to the respective problems of interpretation and explanation. This historical development allows us to discuss the various explanatory models. In the second part (II), I will take a different perspective and switch to the micro sociological level. I will show how responding to the question of meaning is still possible in secular societies, where the answers handed down by religious traditions are no longer accepted as a matter of course. In this part, I will take up the problems of explanation previously outlined and trace in particular the transformation of church-based religion into subjective forms of religiosity. My paper focuses on the following questions: How are social developments and religious change interwoven? How do theories in the sociology of religion explain religious change? What does social modernization and functional differentiation mean for the individual? What effects does modernity have on religion and in particular on the religiosity of individuals? |
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| ISSN: | 2194-508X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/zfr-2018-0021 |