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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
Subjects:
Religion and sociology.
Religious pluralism.
Religions.
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Table of Contents:
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?
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