After the Alliance: The Sociology of Religion in the United States from 1925 to 1949
The development of the sociology of religion from 1925 to 1949 is examined. Following the decline of the social gospel movement which had formed a basis for the sociology of religion from 1895 to the mid twenties, the specialty suffered a precipitous decline. As religionists retreated from the socio...
| Published in: | Sociological analysis |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1982
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1982, Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 189-204 |
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| Summary: | The development of the sociology of religion from 1925 to 1949 is examined. Following the decline of the social gospel movement which had formed a basis for the sociology of religion from 1895 to the mid twenties, the specialty suffered a precipitous decline. As religionists retreated from the sociology journals or found these closed to their writings, few secular sociologists contributed works to fill the void. Consequently, the proportion of articles in the 1930's dealing with religion reached the lowest point in the seventy-five year history of the field under review. In the 1940s, the creation of the ACSR brought many articles on religion from Catholic sociologists who had been isolated from the mainstream of sociology. The sociology of religion which they conducted, however, had severe limits and their visibility reconfirmed the image of the field among secular sociologists as “religious sociology.” |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3711255 |