Defining Religion Investigating the Boundaries Between the Sacred and Secular

Name: Defining Religion Investigating the Boundaries Between the Sacred and Secular
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ISBN: 9780762309764

ISBN-10: 0762309768

ISBN-13: 9780762309764

Edition: 2003

Authors: Arthur L. Greil, David R. Bromley

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Addressing a wide range of issues on the borders of the sacred and the secular, these edited papers begin with an attempt to define religion from a social science perspective.

Book details

List price: $147.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date: 8/8/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.86" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Sacred Algorithms: Exchange Theory of Religious Claims



Differentiating Experiences: The Virtue of Substantive Definitions



The Implicit Religiosity of the Secular: A Martian Perspective on the Definition of Religion



Defining Religion: A Pluralistic Approach for the Global Age



Negotiating with the Secular: Forms of Religious Authority and their Political Consequences



The Burden of the Axial Age: Transcendentalism in Religion as a Function of Empire



Contested Meanings and Definitional Boundaries: Historicizing the Sociology of Religion



The Category "Religion" and the Politics of Tolerance



Defining Religion in Cross-National Perspective: Identity and Difference in Official Conceptions



Cultural Context and the Definition of Religion: Seeing with Confucian Eyes



The Courts and the Definition of Religion: Preserving the Status Quo through Exclusion



Baby Boomers and their Millennial Kids: "Folk" Definitions of Religion and their Relation to Culture



The Relationship Between Religion and Spirituality



Defining Paganism in England and Wales