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History, Time, Meaning, and Memory.: Ideas for the Sociology of Religion: 20
Author(s): Barbara Jones Denison (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 12 July 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 280 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004210628
- ISBN-13: 9789004210622
Book Description
This volume addresses the conjoint problem of history and sociology. History has seen religion hold varied places within the timeline of the sociology of religion.The increase in world fundamentalisms, religious movements, private spiritualities and other indicators in the millennial age have today brought a renaissance to the field.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Barbara Jones Denison, Ph.D. (1985) in Sociology Northwestern University, is department chair and directs the graduate leadership program at Shippensburg University.Co-authored Social Problems in Global Perspectives and was assistant editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. She is past executive officer of the Association for the Sociology of Religion and past president of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society.
Contributors include: Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Peter Beyer, Kevin J. Christiano, Jonathan Eastwood, Elijah Obinna, Pen-Hsuan Lin, Rick Moore, Robert Prus, John H. Simpson, and William H. Swatos, Jr.
Contributors include: Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Peter Beyer, Kevin J. Christiano, Jonathan Eastwood, Elijah Obinna, Pen-Hsuan Lin, Rick Moore, Robert Prus, John H. Simpson, and William H. Swatos, Jr.
