Gods in the global village : the world's religions in sociological perspective / Lester R. Kurtz.

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Main Author: Kurtz, Lester R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c2007.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Sociology for a new century
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440 0 |a Sociology for a new century 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index. 
505 0 |a 1. Religious life in the global village -- Religion and the globalization of social life -- Religion and the sociological tradition -- Tools of the trade -- Major themes in the sociology of religion -- 2. A sociological tour : turning East -- Types of religious traditions -- Hinduism, or Sanatana dharma -- Buddhism -- Religious life in China and Easts Asia -- Indigenous religions -- 3. The tour : Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- Judaism -- Christianity -- Islam -- Tribal continuities in Judaism and Islam -- The social construction of religious traditions -- The elementary forms of religious life -- 4. The religious ethos -- Constructing a religious ethos -- Religion and identity construction -- Religion and stratification -- Religious taboo lines and ethical systems -- Religion and politics -- The ethos and the global village -- 5. Modernism and multiculturalism -- From local to cosmopolitan -- The challenge of modernism -- Historical outcomes of the modernist crisis -- The modernist crisis and the twenty-first century -- The crisis of multiculturalism -- 6. Religious movements for a new century -- Civil religion and nationalism -- Religious syncretism and alternative religious movements -- New forms of religiosity -- Women's movements -- Environmental movements -- Constructing and reconstructing religious life -- 7. Religion and social conflict -- A theory of religious conflict -- Religion and the problem of violence -- Religious contributions to nonviolence -- Islam and nonviolence -- Chaos or community? 
650 0 |a Religion and sociology. 
650 0 |a Religious pluralism. 
650 0 |a Religions. 
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