History, Time, Meaning, and Memory: Ideas for the Sociology of Religion

The quantitative turn in sociology from the 1950s, and the cultural turn in history of the 1980s, has left qualitative research in the positivist or critical realist traditions in partial limbo. Sociologists across a number of substantive areas with more concern for the right method for the right qu...

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1. VerfasserIn: McAndrew, Siobhan (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Review
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford Univ. Press 2013
In: Sociology of religion
Jahr: 2013, Band: 74, Heft: 3, Seiten: 426-427
Rezension von:History, time, meaning, and memory (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2011) (McAndrew, Siobhan)
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Zusammenfassung:The quantitative turn in sociology from the 1950s, and the cultural turn in history of the 1980s, has left qualitative research in the positivist or critical realist traditions in partial limbo. Sociologists across a number of substantive areas with more concern for the right method for the right question, rather than credentialization via technical firepower, may feel somewhat marginalized. This intriguing collection of papers therefore calls for greater historicization of sociological inquiry in religion, arguing for the significance of time, place and circumstance for phenomena such as the emergence of religious movements and their diffusion, the quiddity of religiosity, and religious change and persistence., It has its genesis in Kevin J.
ISSN:1759-8818
Enthält:Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srt032