...Help towards understanding the human and religious functions of tradition comes from such sociologists as Peter Berger, Anthony Giddens, and Edward Shils. Tradition by Shils continues to illuminate how, although human beings modify inherited beliefs and change traditional patterns...

...This chapter provides critical context to the relationship between comedy and sociology. First, the chapter explores Peter Berger’s Redeeming Laughter (2014). In particular the chapter examines Berger’s comparison of Mort Sahl and Talcott Parsons, facilitating an exploration...

.... Marabel Morgan, Hal Lindsey, and other evangelical authors produced national best-sellers. Dean Kelley and Peter Berger grappled with the prospect that conservative Christianity was the wave of the future. When George Gallup Jr. declared 1976 the “Year of the Evangelical,” evangelicalism was a bona fide...

..., mise‐en‐scène, editing, and other production elements. By drawing on theorists of religion such as Peter Berger, William Paden, and Nelson Goodman, the chapter goes on to show how religions achieve similar world‐making strategies by setting apart particular objects and periods of time through...

... Berger Peter “The Heretical Imperative” Berger plausibility structures Berry Wendell pluralism religious pluralism “A Sacred Pilgrimage” Berry W A Secular Age Taylor Taylor Charles Holy Spirit American way of life Peter Berger Wendell Berry denominationalism Will Herberg Talcott Parsons Fr...

... Theological Seminary Peter Berger Martin Luther social theory theological dialectic Max Weber Bonhoeffer’s engagement with social theory in Sanctorum Communio has been widely criticized. The early and influential essay from 1962 by the American sociologist Peter Berger provides...

... the United Kingdom and the United States. What follows is an analysis of creationism as a sociological phenomenon. Drawing from empirical examples and the work of scholars such as Peter Berger and Nancy Ammerman, the chapter discusses how creationist ideas function within the social contexts in which...

... Casanova Jose Asad Talal Enlightenment secularization religion disenchantment Peter Berger Charles Taylor Rodney Stark Jürgen Habermas Secularization is an old idea. The theory, in its most basic form, states that as societies modernize, religious belief, and the importance of religion in public...

... Marsh Christopher Roman Catholic church Vatican White Lotus sect Ye Xiaomen gurus oracles ritual specialists shamanism witches secularization New Paradigm Peter Berger David Martin R. Stephen Warner Rodney Stark Grace Davie János Kornai shortage economy supply-side theory IN CHINA...

..., Max Weber, and Peter Berger. It explores the three areas of interaction that affect religious politics, including the political position and capacity of religion, the rules of power sharing and political contestation, and the symbolic capital of religious ideologies. community Euthyphro Socrates...

... universal spirit Bible Judaism Russian Orthodoxy capitalism Froese Paul Protestant ethic psychology shamanism atheism Peter Berger Europe David Martin Middletown religious revivals secular Soviet Union revivals regulation The true identity of Middletown USA remained a mystery for about...

...Peter Berger has argued that modernity marginalizes religion to the private sphere, thus creating a secularization of culture. Later he reneged, suggesting that religion can survive without a “sacred canopy.” Christian Smith has used the term “sacred umbrella,” and in this study the metaphor...

...The first chapter establishes the theoretical direction of the study. It argues that theodicy, at its core, consists of the production and protection of meaning in the face of evil. Building on the work of Max Weber, Peter Berger, Clifford Geertz, and other theorists, it construes the task...

... allows us to develop models that serve to measure it, as we show later in this volume. As Peter Berger noted, the measurement of religious freedom “is a practical necessity” (2014, 47) due to the condition that “the wide diffusion of pluralism as a fact and of religious freedom as a political norm, has...

... teacher Umar Abbas Brother teacher Weber Max rape sexuality drugs embodiment danger Ahmed Nagi Brother teacher Fatima Hanini Sister assistant principal James Carla teacher Morgan Adam teacher sin Taylor Charles Yusuf Siddiqui Sheikh teacher authority boundaries Peter Berger Christian...

...This chapter offers a symbolic interactionist’s introduction to social constructionism in three parts. First, the author reviews Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality and considers its relationship to early symbolic interactionist thought. While...

... culture freedom difference pluralism dissolution Peter Berger plausibility structures syncretism George Steiner place of absence nihilism post-Christian culture For christian believers, the call to faithfulness is a call to live in fellowship and integrity with the person and witness of Jesus...

... vocational reflections in ways that acknowledge not only these various commitments but also the potential tensions among them. The chapter includes a detailed engagement with Peter Berger’s The Heretical Imperative and with texts from the Jewish tradition; it also draws on the author’s own...