History, Time, Meaning, and Memory: Ideas for the Sociology of ReligionBarbara Jones Denison It can be said that history is poor sociology that does not account sufficiently for present social circumstances, while sociology is bad history in that it does not go back in time. This volume in the Religion and Social Order series sets out to address these conjoint problems of history and sociology within the disciplinary boundaries of the sociology of religion. History has such a fickle nature that it has seen religion hold varied and different places within the timeline of sociological thought. Religion had a high level of importance among the early founders of sociology. A perceived decline of significance for religion by sociology in the latter half of the twentieth century mirrored the changing social location of religion. The increase in world fundamentalisms, religious movements, private spiritualities and other indicators in the millennial age have brought a renaissance to this longstanding subdiscipline and shown that religion is far from extinction. |
Contents
History Time Meaning and Memory in the Sociology of Religion | 1 |
Places for History in the Sociology of Religion | 9 |
2 The History of Meaning | 47 |
A View from Within the Communicative Networks of Two Scientific Disciplines | 65 |
Indigenous Leadership and Party Politics Among the Amasiri of Southeastern Nigeria | 81 |
5 The Development and Major Problems of Religious Legislation in Taiwan | 111 |
6 Developing a Historical Sociology of Nationalism and State Secularization in Latin America | 145 |
Theocrats vs Democrats | 179 |
Dio Chrysostom ca 40120 and the Pragmatist Motif | 205 |
Creating Discourses on Religion at the State Department | 223 |
What is History? | 255 |
Contributors | 265 |
Religion and the Social Order | 269 |
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