Marginality as a Societal Position of Religion
Inherent in religion is an ironic tension between a predisposition, developed in early life, to see ultimate reality as nurturing, and an adult shared doubt about the claims of this world. This feature of religion leads to its flourishing in marginality and stagnating in an established condition. Th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2002
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2002, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 267-289 |
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| Summary: | Inherent in religion is an ironic tension between a predisposition, developed in early life, to see ultimate reality as nurturing, and an adult shared doubt about the claims of this world. This feature of religion leads to its flourishing in marginality and stagnating in an established condition. This conceptualization of religion is applied to the contemporary world, which features such macro institutions as big business and big government and such micro institutions as the family, the local school, and religon. The paper endeavors to create a synthetic framework for the sociology of contemporary religion that creates a general depiction out of numerous kinds of inquiry conducted at present in the field. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3712470 |