Sociology and religion : a book of readings /
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Prentice-Hall,
1969.
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Table of Contents:
- I. The origins of religion : historical, genetic, and evolutionary analyses: Origin of religion / David Hume
- Magic / G.W.F. Hegel
- The progressive course of the human mind / Auguste Comte
- Magic and religion / James George Frazer
- Animism / Edward B. Tylor
- Ancestor-worship, deities and religious differentiation / Herbert Spencer
- Demons, heroes, gods / Wilhelm Wundt
- Totem and taboo / Sigmund Freud
- Religious evolution / Robert N. Bellah
- II. The essence of religion: religion as an expression of historical, social, and personal actualities: 1. Religion as a force of historical and social stability : its discovery and critique: The truth of religion / Ludwig Feuerbach
- Theses on Feuerbach / Karl Marx
- Religious illusion and the task of history / Karl Marx
- Utility of religion / John Stuart Mill
- The principle of resentment / Friedrich Nietzsche
- 2. The analysis of religion as an expression of social differentiation and integration: Religion as the constituent principle of the ancient family and city / Fustel de Coulanges
- An ecclesiastical system as a social bond / Herbert Spencer
- Religion and natural society / W. Robertson Smith
- Religion as a collective representation / Emile Durkheim
- The public and the individual character of religion / Bronislaw Malinowski
- Totemism / Claude Levi-Strauss
- 3. Religion as an expression of personal or psychic actualities: The origin of the bad conscience / Friederich Nietzsche
- Obsessive actions and religious practices / Sigmund Freud
- Religion and the crisis of identity / E.H. Erikson
- 4. Transition : modern effects at a theoretical synthesis: Charisma : its revolutionary character and its transformation / Max Weber
- Religion, economics, and society / Ernst Troeltsch
- The false dichotomy of real and ideal / Emile Durkheim
- III. Religion in transformation : historical studies: 1. Revolutionary transformation in religion: On the history of early Christianity / Frederich Engels
- Socialism and the sociology of Christianity / Henri Desroche
- The first form of the utopian mentality: the orgiastic chiliasm of the Anabaptists / Karl Mannheim
- The social background of the Anabaptist view of the church / Franklin Hamlin Littell
- Pursuit of the millennium : the relation between religious and social change / Yonina Talmon
- 2. Kinds of religious transformation and reorganization: Man, master of nature / M.D. Chenu
- Medieval popular religious movements / Friederich Heer
- The calling of the saints / William Haller
- The new morality and the new theology / Franz Borkenau
- The hidden god / Lucien Goldmann
- Ashoka and Buddhism / Romila Thapar
- The three types of Christian community / Ernst Troeltsch
- The social sources of denominationism / H. Richard Niebuhr
- Church and sect / Max Weber
- State and hierarchy / Max Weber
- IV. Religion in transformation: discussion of the present situation: 1. Substantive studies on the changing structure of religious beliefs and practices: Neutralized religion and its functions / T.W. Adorno
- The contemporary upswing in religion / Will Herberg
- Religious orientations / Gerhard Lenski
- The established church and the decline of church attendance in Sweden / Berndt Gustaffson
- The future of the worker priests / Emile Poulat
- Sanskritization and westernization / M.N. Srinivas
- Contemporary changes in Japanese religion / Kiyomi Morioka
- Sects and cults / Martin E. Marty
- Implications of these changes for the sociology of religion: The religious revival in America / Charles E. Glock
- Sociology of religion and sociology of knowledge / Peter Berger & Thomas Luckmann
- Can continual questioning be institutionalized? / Helmut Schelsky
- Family and church as "boundary" structures / Talcott Parsons
- Some problems of the sociology of religion / Gabriel Le Bras.