Sect Ideologies and Social Status

Name: Sect Ideologies and Social Status
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ISBN: 9780226742168

ISBN-10: 0226742164

ISBN-13: 9780226742168

Edition: 1970

Authors: Gary Schwartz

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In this penetrating study of urban religion, Gary Schwartz examines the nature of the relationship between religious belief and the social order. He shows how a person's experience in the social hierarchy shapes his response to competing religious ideologies and, in turn, how commitment to a particular sect ideology colors his attitude toward mundane affairs. The author studied and compared a Pentecostal group and a Seventh-day Adventist group in preparation for this work. The question which stimulated the investigation can be stated as a paradox. In the Adventist case, why should persons who firmly believe that God is soon to destroy the world work so diligently and against formidable…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1970
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/1/1970
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Ideology and Religious Belief Religious Ideologies and Secular Societies Evangelical Christianity and Separatist Religious Movements in the Non-Western World Participant Observation and the Study of Religious Belief 2. The Problem of Sect Affiliation Social Stratification and Religious Affiliation in America The Problem of Sect Affiliation--The Relationship between Religious Belief and Social Structure Status Deprivation and Sect Affiliation--The Structural Sources of Pentecostal and Adventist Ideologies Religious Ideologies--The Link between Social Structure, Religious Doctrine, and Social Action 3. The Sect as a Sociological Construct The…