Religious Movements and Modern Societies: Toward a Progressive Problemshift
The general purpose of this paper is to discuss systematically the terms in which the study of religious movements has developed, with particular reference to the foci of contemporary and immediate-future studies of religious movements in American society. Initially, attention is concentrated upon t...
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| Language: | English |
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1979
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1979, Volume: 40, Issue: 4, Pages: 297-314 |
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| Summary: | The general purpose of this paper is to discuss systematically the terms in which the study of religious movements has developed, with particular reference to the foci of contemporary and immediate-future studies of religious movements in American society. Initially, attention is concentrated upon the intellectual tradition which formed the immediate background to the emergence of a specialized interest in religious collectivities. That tradition is specified in relation to the early work of Hegel and of Weber, with the highly influential formulations of Troeltsch being located vis á vis both Hegel and Weber. The notion of consistent sectarianism as it embryonically appears in early Hegel and more explicitly in the later work of Weber is given particular attention. Further observations upon the recent study of religious collectivities are followed by a discussion of the shifting sands of modern societal distinctions between the religious and the secular. Arguments are presented about the societal context of modern religious movements and relationships between organized religion and the modern State, with reference to the relationship between public and private domains of modern life. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709959 |