Nuts, Sluts, and Converts: Studying Religious Groups as Social Problems: A Comment

Irving Horowitz has called for studying religious movements as social problems. Yet he is critical of those who propose going “beyond detente” with respect to the relationship of religion and social science. Nevertheless, it has been this “detente” and its articulation through putatively “value-neut...

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Main Author: Robbins, Thomas 1943-2015 (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: 1985
In: Sociological analysis
Year: 1985, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-178
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