Alternative Sociologies of Religion : : Through Non-Western Eyes / / James V. Spickard.
Uncovers what the sociology of religion would look like had it emerged in a Confucian, Muslim, or Native American culture rather than in a Christian oneSociology has long used Western Christianity as a model for all religious life. As a result, the field has tended to highlight aspects of religion t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 12 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A sociologist thinks about religion
- 1. Sociology's default view of religion
- 2. The default view's historical- cultural origins
- 3. To china: A confucian alternative
- 4. China applied: feeding the holy community
- 5. To north Africa: an arab judge looks at history
- 6. Ibn khaldūn applied: medjugorje and the islamic state
- 7. To the American southwest: navajo ritual and the experience of time
- 8. Navajo ritual applied: world- healing at the catholic worker
- 9. Are we stealing the elgin marbles?
- Postscript: living in a global world
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the author