Bridging the Study of Culture and Religion: Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Symbolic Power

This essay examines key features of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture in light of their potential contribution to the sociology of religion. For Bourdieu, religion can be analyzed as a system of symbolic power with properties analogous to other cultural domains, such as art, philosophy, sc...

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Main Author: Swartz, David (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 1996
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 1996, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-85
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