Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Analysis of the Study of Religious Organizations 125 political and institutional devices (Troeltsch 1981: 331). Weber felt that ...

126 Patricia M. Y. Chang In addition to arguing over what conceptual dimensions and characteristics were appropriate, scholars a ...

Analysis of the Study of Religious Organizations 127 Religious Organizations as Bureaucracies After having abandoned the church- ...

128 Patricia M. Y. Chang strategies that closely reflect religious ideals and priorities. At the same time, the com- petitive en ...

Analysis of the Study of Religious Organizations 129 The dichotomy that scholars suggest exists between professional rationality ...

130 Patricia M. Y. Chang symbolic processes relative to organizations. Since the centrality of culture and symbol are precisely ...

Analysis of the Study of Religious Organizations 131 institution that controls access to resources.^1 The weakness of institutio ...

132 Patricia M. Y. Chang authority to examine and ordain clergy, while others require approval by a regional body, and others re ...

Analysis of the Study of Religious Organizations 133 traces its historical and theological identity back to Martin Luther, the P ...

134 Patricia M. Y. Chang has often taken this approach, focusing selectively on the kinds of data that can best test particular ...

Analysis of the Study of Religious Organizations 135 How has the religious sector resisted pressures to centralize, standardize, ...

136 Patricia M. Y. Chang Proposition 6:Religion scholars have to begin to question the frameworks that they are most familiar wi ...

CHAPTER ELEVEN Religion and Spirituality Toward an Integrated Analysis Wade Clark Roof For religion in modern societies, the ear ...

138 Wade Clark Roof In the way I use the word in this chapter, “religion” refers to scripture, ritual, myths, beliefs, practices ...

Toward Integration of Religion and Spirituality 139 and pilgrimages in search of something not yet attained may result in a rean ...

140 Wade Clark Roof commentators. More often than not, the discussion focused on the dire implications for religious institution ...

Toward Integration of Religion and Spirituality 141 about human depravity. Religious appearances and rhetoric notwithstanding, t ...

142 Wade Clark Roof Over against an alleged growing polarization between liberals and conservatives pulling Americans into one o ...

Toward Integration of Religion and Spirituality 143 spiritual seeking? The need for new perspective arises in part because in an ...

144 Wade Clark Roof survey question in our research on the baby boom generation some years back was very revealing in this respe ...