The Encounter of Scientific and Religious Values Pertinent to Man's Spiritual Nature
All sociologists have religious biases. Anti-religious biases seem to be more prominent in contemporary American sociology than pro-religious perspectives. Various aspects of the “science-religion conflict” are involved, and the sociology of religion is inevitably and directly in the center of this...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1967
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1967, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 22-33 |
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| Summary: | All sociologists have religious biases. Anti-religious biases seem to be more prominent in contemporary American sociology than pro-religious perspectives. Various aspects of the “science-religion conflict” are involved, and the sociology of religion is inevitably and directly in the center of this conflict. Glock's five-fold classification of the “core dimensions of religiosity” constitutes a very significant contribution to the solution of problems related to inconsistent and conflicting perspectives in religious research, but it does not cover the totality of personal religiosity. A “spiritual” or “supernatural” component of religiosity is the essence of a religious life. The evidences of it are theological, philosophical, and existential, but some of them may be or may become susceptible to scientific tests. The recognition that man is spiritual and that religion has ontological supernatural elements should be brought back into the sociology of religion. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710419 |