A Comparative Sociology of World Religions : : Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion / / Stephen Sharot.
A Sociology of World Religions presents a comparative analysis of the world's religions, focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. In each case the volume contextualizes how the relationships between these two religious forms fit within, and are...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I Concepts and Theories
- 1 World Religions, Elites, and Popular Religion
- 2 Religious Action: A Weberian Model
- 3 Elites and Masses: Max Weber,Weberian Scholars, and Marxist Analysis
- II Religious Action in the World Religions
- 4 China: State Religion, Elites, and Popular Religion in a Syncretistic Milieu
- 5 India: Brahmans, Renouncers, and Popular Hinduism
- 6 Nirvana and Spirits: Buddhism and Animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia
- 7 Hierocracy and Popular Religion: Catholicism in “Traditional” Europe
- 8 Elite Scholars and Popular Saints: A Brief Excursus on Islam and Judaism
- 9 Protestants, Catholics, and the Reform of Popular Religion
- 10 Comparisons
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author