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| The latter part of the twentieth century saw an explosion of new media that effected profound changes in human categories of communication.... In The Sociology Of Religion, first published in the United States in 1963, he looks at the significant role religion has played in social...
Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed... In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social...
Duijzings challenges the notion that Balkan conflicts have evolved around clear-cut and fixed ethno-religious groups, demonstrating that... "Why Gods Persist" takes a look at possible social-scientific explanations for why religions persist. Robert A. Hinde shows us how religions...
A founder of modern sociology examines animism, naturism, totemism, myth, and ritual in this 1912 classic, which traces the source of... "In "Islam Obscured" Daniel M. Varisco offers a brilliant and nuanced analysis of four influential anthropologists against the background of...
...both entertaining and important! "-John Lyden" Including the complete text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, this candid, unflinching critique of childhood religious education...
Forbidden Fruit tells the definitive story of the sexual values and practices of American teenagers, paying particular attention to how... Explores recent high profile cases of new religious movements involved in violence.
In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea... Spanning over 2,000 years, this study looks at the complex relationship between Jewish and Catholic thought from a social and historical...
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