Introduction: Sociology of Culture and Sociology of Religion

1996 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhys. H. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Sociology Of Culture

It’s Dangerous Out There

Agents of God ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 201-212
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Guhin
Keyword(s):  
Practice Theory ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Specific Individual

The author lists the book’s key contributions. First, he shows how the distinction between “essential” and “accidental” helps to clarify our understanding of boundaries. He then builds upon practice theory to show how practices matter in the sociology of religion and sociology of culture in three ways: to show how “orthodox” religions are just as practiced as “orthoprax” ones, to show how boundaries are also practiced, and to show how practices help to maintain “external authorities.” External authorities are similar to institutions, except they are experienced as agentic and authoritative, therefore helping to solve “the problem of power” by offloading coercion to something like “the Bible” or “Science” instead of a specific individual making a command. The chapter ends with a description of worries about what students would become after they left the schools, with community members emphasizing the need to ground students’ identities in boundaries and external authorities.

scholarly journals Sociologija kulture, srodne discipline i kultura

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikola Skledar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Complex Entity ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
Relative Independence ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
The Relationship

The author (it's! defines the sociology of culture as a special branch of sociology and the neighboring diciplines but still subsumed within this scientific discipline (cultural anthropology, sociology or art, sociology of religion, sociology of epistemology, sociology ol science). All of the mentioned disciplines from their own aspects take culture as a complex entity. Then their iner-relation is discussed in order to show the position of the sociologgy of culture within a family of culturological sciences as well as the relationship with the philosophy of culture. The scope and the possibilities of these sciences are discussed in relationship towards culture seen as a complex historical and social and universal human phenomenon and the suplle relation with the society as a totality.Culturology is not understood here as a science about culture, as a phenomenon stti generis (L. White) bill as a scientific approach to culture as a social and human product. Nevertheless, it is an entity that cannot be reduced to only social and historical moments towards which it always keeps its relative independence and identity.

Psychology of Religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
O. Karagodina
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies

Psychology of religion as a branch of religious studies, in contrast to the philosophy and sociology of religion, focuses attention mainly on the problems of individual religiosity - the phenomena of religious experience, religious beliefs, mechanisms of the emergence and development of religious experience. The psychology of religion studies the experience of the supernatural person, the psychological roots of this experience and its significance for the subjective. Since a person is formed and operates in a society, the study of religious experience must include its social sources.

Contents of Western Sociology of Religion as a Science and Educational Discipline

2002 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
International Society ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Sociology of religion in the West is a field of knowledge with at least 100 years of history. As a science and as a discipline, the sociology of religion has been developing in most Western universities since the late nineteenth century, having established traditions, forming well-known schools, areas related to the names of famous scholars. The total number of researchers of religion abroad has never been counted, but there are more than a thousand different centers, universities, colleges where religion is taught and studied. If we assume that each of them has an average of 10 religious scholars, theologians, then the army of scholars of religion is amazing. Most of them are united in representative associations of researchers of religion, which have a clear sociological color. Among them are the most famous International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the Society for Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).

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