by Walter A Jensen (2015)
Written with the aim of increasing public interest in the study of religion, this primer makes available, to both the student and layman alike, a substantial amount of practical information about the modern non-theological study of religion. Focusing on three key areas of interest -- (1) the difficulties in defining religion, (2) the secularization / desecularization debate, and (3) an overview of Prof. Rudolf J. Siebert's critical theory of religion -- the reader will easily gain a broad, but thorough, overview of the sociology of religion.
Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Collection of essays describes the interaction of modern religion with the present day world. Focuses on subjects such as religion and the media, Marxism and liberal theology, the Church and social problems, Christianity and religious pluralism, liberation theology, the concept of Utopia in the 20th century, the new cults, Christianity under Communist rule, the concept of sanctuary, and theological reactions to the Holocaust.
Courtney Bender ... [et al
The thirteen essays in this volume offer a challenge to conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social consequences.
Silvia Montenegro, Juan Mauricio Renold
Excelente trabajo de divulgación sobre los aspectos más clásicos referidos a los fenómenos religiosos. Así como también aspectos relacionados con la problemática de la globalización, el tele-evangelismo y el fundamentalismo.
Dan Smyer Yü
"Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such revivals. Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic work, the book demonstrates that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism in contemporary China is intimately bound with both the affirming and negating forces of globalization, modernity, and politics of religion, indigenous identity reclamation, and the market economy. The analysis highlights the multidimensionality of Tibetan Buddhism in relation to different religious, cultural, and political constituencies of China. By recognizing the greater contexts of China's politics of religion and of the global status of Tibetan Buddhism, this book presents an argument that the revival of Tibetan Buddhism is not an isolated event limited merely to Tibetan regions; instead, it is a result of the intersection of both local and global transformative changes. The book is a useful contribution to students and scholars of Asian religion and Chinese studies"--