Response to D. H. Smith's Paper on Contemporary Voluntary Action Research
That Smith must make his case in favor of including religious associations within the general sociological study of voluntary associations is bewildering for two reasons. It is bewildering both that such a study has been generally overlooked and that contemporary sociologists have so unaccountably f...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
1983
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Review of religious research
Year: 1983, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 304-307 |
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| Summary: | That Smith must make his case in favor of including religious associations within the general sociological study of voluntary associations is bewildering for two reasons. It is bewildering both that such a study has been generally overlooked and that contemporary sociologists have so unaccountably forgotten the lessons of the "classical tradition." Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, and historians and social thinkers like A.S.P. Woodhouse, A. D. Lindsay, William Ebenstein, and James Luther Adams all demonstrated the central role of religious groups in helping to establish the "voluntary principle." Smith's emphasis helps to recapture that tradition. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511007 |