Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

CHAPTER FOUR Social Forms of Religion and Religions in Contemporary Global Society Peter Beyer CONCEIVING AND DEFINING RELIGION ...

46 Peter Beyer to do with boundaries, and one with the valuation of these concepts in their social contexts. Thus, we have disag ...

Social Forms of Religions in Contemporary Society 47 argument is that the intensified globalization of society over the past few ...

48 Peter Beyer The fact that this modern understanding of religion as differentiated and plural de- veloped first specifically i ...

Social Forms of Religions in Contemporary Society 49 carriers to join sufficiently in the reconstructive enterprise, it is far m ...

50 Peter Beyer context of the slave trade. Especially in the later twentieth century, the descendants of these involuntary colon ...

Social Forms of Religions in Contemporary Society 51 they also were not Hindus. The historical situation in which this occurred ...

52 Peter Beyer of state constitutions guarantee “freedom of religion,” thus lending religion a high de- gree of legitimacy and a ...

Social Forms of Religions in Contemporary Society 53 Aside from these various forms of contestation around the category of relig ...

54 Peter Beyer The most widespread social forms of religion and religions in contemporary society can be divided into four types ...

Social Forms of Religions in Contemporary Society 55 their activity is oriented. As such, they can give concrete and representat ...

56 Peter Beyer for the differentiation of the religion beyond giving its name a certain public symbolic prominence. There is, of ...

Social Forms of Religions in Contemporary Society 57 that would fall under this type quite clearly. Examples are Transcendental ...

58 Peter Beyer the formed religions that act as implicit models for religion as such, and therefore any sort of social activity ...

Social Forms of Religions in Contemporary Society 59 analytical category, but otherwise, to use Thomas Luckmann’s (1967) term, r ...

60 Peter Beyer to Soka Gakkai in Japan and Hindu Nationalism in India, is that they seek to have religious orientations and prec ...

CHAPTER FIVE The Evolution of the Sociology of Religion Theme and Variations Grace Davie The beginnings of the sociology of reli ...

62 Grace Davie (Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim), underlining their enduring legacy to the sociology of religion – noti ...

The Evolution of the Sociology of Religion 63 be tackled until the religious element in society is stripped away to reveal the i ...

64 Grace Davie the process known as secularization – through which the world becomes progressively “disenchanted.” These three a ...