Thinking Sociologically About Religion: Implications for Faith Communities
This article is the published version of the 2011 H. Paul Douglass Lecture given at the Religious Research Association meeting in Milwaukee, WI. It argues that there has been a step change in activity with regard to the social scientific work on religion in Europe in the last half decade. It sets ou...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2012
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Review of religious research
Year: 2012, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 273-289 |
| Further subjects: | B
New research
B Religion in modern Europe B New methodologies B sociology of religion B Faith Communities |
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| Summary: | This article is the published version of the 2011 H. Paul Douglass Lecture given at the Religious Research Association meeting in Milwaukee, WI. It argues that there has been a step change in activity with regard to the social scientific work on religion in Europe in the last half decade. It sets out the evidence for this claim and the (not always positive) reasons why this had happened. It then examines the implications of this work for the faith communities of modern Europe, arguing that effective cooperation between the religious sector and the researchers who study this is the best antidote for the misconceptions about religion that currently abound in many European societies. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-012-0077-y |