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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- Bulletin 41.2
- Reed M. N. Weep Retirement
- Field Notes: News and Announcements in the Discipline
- Divinity Manifest in a Female Body: Guglielma of Milan as the Holy Spirit, Female Deity and Female Leadership in the Later Middle Ages
- Sexual Liberality as Othering: The Case of Islam in Late Antiquity and Modernity
- SORAAAD Book Notes with the Bulletin
- Romania’s Saving Angels: ”New Men”, Orthodoxy and Blood Mysticism in the Legionary Movement
- Christus Virgo: Representations of Christ as a Virgin in Early Christianity and Late Antiquity
- Editorial: New Challenges, New Directions
- 'The Stars Down to Earth' - Why Educated Women in the Western World Use Astrology
Tag Archives: Sociology of Religion
On the “Softening of Religiosity” and “Invisible Religion”
Nathan’s post yesterday reminded me of a passage in Thomas Luckmann’s The Invisible Religion (1967), in which Luckmann excoriates middle-twentieth century sociology of religion for falling down on the job. His comments are worth consideration: The new sociology of religion … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Theory in the Real World
Tagged secularism, Sociology of Religion, Thomas Luckmann
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Methodological Failures
I’m currently reading Matthew Wood’s Possession, Power, and the New Age, and I’ve found an extremely provocative passage in the conclusion to his second chapter (a summary of “The field of New Age studies”): The transmission of the New Age motif … Continue reading
Sociology as a Martial Art: An Interview with Terry Rey
I interviewed Terry Rey in late 2009, shortly before the terrible earthquake in Haiti that devastated Port-au-Prince. He was eager to speak about his passion for Bourdieu’s justice-based approach to sociology—“scholarship as martial arts”—as well as how Bourdieu’s theoretical frame … Continue reading