History, Time, Meaning, and Memory. (Religion and the Social Order)

Barbara Jones Denison

ISBN 10: 9004210628 / ISBN 13: 9789004210622

Published by Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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viii, 267 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: Preface : Traveling through time / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Introduction : history, time, meaning, and memory in the sociology of religion / Barbara Jones Denison -- Clio goes to church, again : places for history in the sociology of religion / Kevin J. Christiano -- The history of meaning / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Historical observation in the sociology of religion : a view from within the communicative networks of two scientific disciplines / Peter Beyer -- Past in the present : indigenous leadership and party politics among the Amasiri of Southeastern Nigeria / Elijah Obinna -- The development and major problems of religious legislation in Taiwan / Pen-Hsuan Lin -- Developing a historical sociology of nationalism and state secularization in Latin America / Jonathan Eastwood -- Religion and deviance : theocrats vs. democrats / Nachman Ben-Yehuda -- On the processes and problematics of representing divinity : Dio Chrysostom (ca. 40-120) and the pragmatist motif / Robert Prus -- The genres of religious freedom : creating discourses on religion at the State Department / Rick Moore -- Afterword : what is history? / John H. Simpson. 'This volume addresses the conjoint problem of history and sociology. History has seen religion hold varied places within the timeline of the sociology of religion.The increase in world fundamentalisms, religious movements, private spiritualities and other indicators in the millennial age have today brought a renaissance to the field.'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History, Time, Meaning, and Memory. (Religion and the Social Order)
• Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004210628
• ISBN 13: 9789004210622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology
  • History
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

It can be said that history is poor sociology that does not account sufficiently for present social circumstances, while sociology is bad history in that it does not go back in time. This volume in the Religion and Social Order series sets out to address these conjoint problems of history and sociology within the disciplinary boundaries of the sociology of religion. History has such a fickle nature that it has seen religion hold varied and different places within the timeline of sociological thought. Religion had a high level of importance among the early founders of sociology. A perceived decline of significance for religion by sociology in the latter half of the twentieth century mirrored the changing social location of religion. The increase in world fundamentalisms, religious movements, private spiritualities and other indicators in the millennial age have brought a renaissance to this longstanding subdiscipline and shown that religion is far from extinction.

Contributors include: Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Peter Beyer, Kevin J. Christiano, Jonathan Eastwood, Elijah Obinna, Pen-Hsuan Lin, Rick Moore, Robert Prus, John H. Simpson, and William H. Swatos, Jr.

About the Author

Barbara Jones Denison, Ph.D. (1985) in Sociology Northwestern University, is department chair and directs the graduate leadership program at Shippensburg University. Co-authored Social Problems in Global Perspectives and was assistant editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. She is past executive officer of the Association for the Sociology of Religion and past president of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society.