The Sacred in a Secular Age: Toward Revision in the Scientific Study of Religion
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley
University of California Press
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780520366770 |
| Summary: | This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985. Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Relocating the Sacred: Conceptual Issues -- I. Secularization: The Inherited Model -- II. Utopian Communities: Theoretical Issues -- III. New Religious Movements: Yet Another Great Awakening? -- IV. Social Responses to Cults -- PART TWO. Relocating the Sacred: Methodological Issues -- V. The Study of Social Change in Religion -- VI. New Perspectives from Cross-Cultural Studies -- VII. Studies of Conversion: Secularization or Re-enchantment? -- PART THREE. The Sacred in Traditional Forms -- VIII. Religious Organizations -- IX. Church and Sect -- X. Conservative Protestantism -- XI. The Sacred in Ministry Studies -- PART FOUR. Culture and the Sacred -- XII. Science and the Sacred -- XIII. Gender, the Family, and the Sacred -- XIV. The Sacred and Third World Societies -- PART FIVE. Private Life and the Sacred -- XV. Religion and Psychological Well-Being -- XVI. Psychoanalysis and the Sacred -- XVII. Religion and Healing -- XVIII. Mysticism -- PART SIX. The Sacred and the Exercise of Power -- XIX. Religion and Politics in America: The Last Twenty Years -- XX. Policy Formation in Religious Systems -- XXI. Social Justice and the Sacred -- XXII. The Sacred and the World System -- About the Contributors -- Index. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (390 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-520-32542-5 |
