Exploring the Religious Life

Name: Exploring the Religious Life
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ISBN: 9780801878442

ISBN-10: 0801878446

ISBN-13: 9780801878442

Edition: 2004

Authors: Rodney Stark

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Though religion is for most people one of the most important aspects of their lives, social scientists and other observers of human society too often misunderstand and misrepresent the nature and role of religion in history and in daily life. From the supposed decline of religious attitudes in Western Europe and the venal motivations attributed to the Christian Crusaders to the very definition of religion, personal biases and an inadequate grasp of relevant data have led to the formulation and propagation of unsupportable views on the sacred. In Exploring the Religious Life, Rodney Stark boldly overturns much received wisdom within the social sciences about religion, drawing on a wide range…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



Religion, Magic & Science



In Praise of "Idealistic Humbug"



Upper-Class Asceticism



Faith & Gender




How Are Revelations Possible?



Spirituality & Unchurched Religions in America, Sweden & Japan




Gods, Rituals & the Moral Order



Discovering Data on Religion


Notes


Bibliography


Index