Some trends in the sociology of religion in the USA

1966 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.O. Moberg

Des liens étroits unissent les Etats-Unis et l'Europe dans le domaine de l'étude de la sociologie de la religion. Ces deux continents appartiennent à la même culture occidentale et l'on y rencontre les mêmes grandes religions. La théologie judéo-chrétienne met fortement l'accent sur l'unité du genre humain. Européens et Américains ont beaucoup à s'apprendre mutuellement. Aux Etats-Unis, la sociologie de la religion s'est fort développée depuis la seconde guerre mondiale. Les recherches sociologiques dans le domaine de la religion ont été introduites dans un grand nombre d'universités, centres de formation relevant des grandes confessions religieuses etc. L'American Sociological Association a créé une section spéciale dans ce domaine et chaque année elle tient ses assises dans le cadre des congrès de l'association. La Religious Research Association, la Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, l'American Catholic Sociological Society et l'American Jewish Committee contribuent toutes à promouvoir l'essor de cette spécialité. Citons enfin pour mention les plus importantes publi cations périodiques qui ont vu le jour: Sociological Abstracts, Review of Religious Research, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion et Sociological Analysis. Les développements de cette discipline dans l'après guerre furent stimulé par l'éveil d'un intérêt très grand pour la religion comme phénomène général de culture. Des recherches firent connaitre l'énorme importance de la religion dans la vie moderne et suscitèrent de la part des responsables religieux des attentes des résultats de telles recherches. Les cinq 'dimensions-clés' de la religiosité proposées par Glock consti tuent de ce point de vue une contribution méthodologique très impor tante. La dimension 'ritualistique' de la religion correspond aux compor tements extérieurs et pratiques religieuses; la dimension 'idéologique' se réfère aux croyances; la dimension 'intellectuelle' ou 'cognitive' se rapporte à la connaissance, 'l'expériencielle' aux sentiments et la dimen sion 'conséquentielle' enfin consiste dans les effets des quatre premières. Toutefois, il est d'autres aspects de la religiosité personnelle qui échap pent à cette catégorisation, notamment quand il s'agit des religions chrétiennes. C'est donc une sixième dimension 'transcendentale' ou 'spirituelle' qui fait l'objet de la discussion dans cet article. Elle relève de l'essence même de la vie religieuse et se rapproche de ce que Sturzo appelait 'la vrai vie' dans sa sociologie du surnaturel. Une évidence de type 'verste hende', c'est-à-dire prenant sa source dans l'intuition, la théologie, des arguments de nature philosophique et l'expérience subjective vécue par l'homme, plutôt qu'un ensemble de faits de type empirique condui sent en effet à penser que cet aspect de la nature humaine est plutôt une réalité proprement ontologique et non un objet réifié. Il n'est pas impossible que l'on puisse un jour sonder la nature spirituelle de l'homme à l'aide de données purement empiriques. Entretemps, il faut faire preuve d'humilité scientifique et d'une grande prudence de juge ment. Tenir compte à la fois des six dimensions de la religiosité fera de nous de meilleurs sociologues de la religion.

2002 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych

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).


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Pandita ◽  
Shivendra Singh

Purpose This study aims to find out the average journal packing density (JPD) of Library and Information Science (LIS) research journals published across the world. The concept, JPD, means the average number of research articles published by a research journal in one volume. Accordingly, the undergoing study evaluates the average number of research articles published in each volume of each research journal published in the field of LIS at the global level. Some other key aspects evaluated include the number of LIS research journal publishing countries, average JPD of LIS research journals at the continental level, etc. Design/methodology/approach This study is purely based on secondary data retrieved from SCImago, which is SCOPUS data. Keeping in view the objectives of this study, the data about research articles published in all LIS research journals during the period 2015 through 2019 were retrieved to undertake the study. Findings From the data analysis, it emerged that 256 research journals duly indexed by SCOPUS are published in the field of LIS across 36 countries. In all 48,596 research articles were published from 2015 to 2019 in these research journals at an average of 44.71 research articles per journal per volume. More than 75% of LIS research journals are published from Germany, Spain, Netherlands, the USA and the UK. Research journals published from the USA have higher JPD of 53.09 research articles per journal per volume, which is 18.74% higher than the average global JPD of LIS research journals. 50% of LIS research journal publishing countries are from Europe and the majority 52.55% LIS research articles were published in European LIS research journals. The average JPD of LIS research journals published from North America is 51.73 research articles per journal per volume, which is the highest across continents. Research limitations/implications Standardization of JPD of research journals irrespective of the subject discipline they are published in is important for many reasons and the foremost being, such standardization helps in keeping at bay the predatory research journals, which normally float such packing density norms, with the sole aim to earn money in the shape of manuscript handling charges, thereby publishing a far greater number of research article in each issue of a journal than the average research articles published by a research journal. Originality/value Very few studies have been conducted around the concept JPD, especially by the authors of this particular study. This study has however been particularized to the LIS subject discipline, while the findings add to existing lot of study already undertaken, hence outcome can be generalized.


1964 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.B. Brothers

Quoique en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles les études empiriques de la religion datent du XIXe siècle et qu'un grand nombre d'enquetes restreintes aient ete exécutées, il n'existe à l'heure actuelle encore que quelques projets d'étude plus vastes. II manque à la fois des relevés statistiques extensifs et des enquetes intensives. L'auteur met en lumière les principales tendances, y compns les quelques etudes qui mentionnent la religion comme facteur de l'environnement social et celles qui s'intéressent a l'organisation religieuse de communautés particulières. Enfin, elle suggère les voies pour un développement possible de l'étude de la religion dans la Grande-Bretagne d'aujourd'hui.


Equilibrium ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-129
Author(s):  
Piotr Misztal

The aim of the study is to analyze the hypothesis of jobless economic growth in economic theory and in the Global Triad countries (U.S. , EU-15, Japan, China , India). In the article the research method based on the literature study in the field of macroeconomics and international finance were used, as well as econometric methods (Ordinary Least Squares). All the statistics used in the study had an annual frequency and covered the period from 1990 to 2012. These data came from the statistical database of the Business Membership and Research Association – The Conference Board Total Economy Database. On the basis of the study the phenomenon of jobless economic growth in China and India was revealed. However, in the case of the USA, the EU-15 and Japan the positive impact of economic growth on changes in employment was confirmed.


1983 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.D. De Loor

La sociologie de la religion aux Pays-Bas n'est arrivée à maturité qu'après la seconde guerre mondiale. Et ce fait entretient un rapport étroit avec la position des Églises néerlandaises qui entrevirent chacune à leur manière leurs possibilités d'ouverture à cette nouvelle période.


2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-81
Author(s):  
Ahmad Muttaqin

Abstract: This study examines the issue of the sociology of religion at the religious practices of local communities. Kampung Laut selected as a test site for two (2) major consideration. First, the practice of religion in the fom of ritual in Kampung Laut is different from the mainstream that is considered wrong and become targets for streamlining activities. Second, the typical characteristics of Kampung Laut people in the vortex of conflict govemment agencies on claims of ownership of natural resources. Correctional Institution (LP) as part of Kemenkumham, Cilacap regency govemment and PT. Perhutani conflict over land ownership arising from sedimentation along Segara Anak. Conflicts that exist tend to be maintained to a certain political interests. Even more, these institutions construct public issue by positioning Kampung Laut as threatening communities via label illegal loggers and destroyers of ecosystems. Bad image fomed through a process of marginalization is then formed the distinctive character of the community as a community of Kampung Laut resistant and latent. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative sociological approach. Through sociological analysis, practice different religious rituals that seem to have rationalization based on the theory of action Weber in the category of value-oriented rationality. Different actions with mainstream thought to have more benefits in the context of the struggle for existence of identity in the practice of marginalization carried out by institutions conflictual. Religiorn becomes the entry point of this issue given its massive, communal, and mobilized by the transcendental values. Keywords: Religion, Conflict, Ritual, Mainstream.


2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Schwinn

AbstractIn the lively debate of the last two decades about the validity of the ‘secularization thesis’, the comparison between Europe and the USA plays a central role. The high level of religiosity beyond the Atlantic has put under pressure the assumption of the loss of importance of religion in modernity, which had been prevalent for a long time. In this debate, the connection between the differentiation theory and sociology of religion, which has already been discussed by the classics of the discipline, has attracted too little attention. This article takes up this desideratum and proposes, following Max Weber, a theory of differentiation which is able to cover the variety of religious processes. This proposed analysis will be made concrete with reference to the different paths to modernity of Europe and the USA and the related importance of religion.


2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Halton

In 1873, 75 years before Karl Jaspers published his theory of the Axial Age in 1949, unknown to Jaspers and to contemporary scholars today, Scottish folklorist John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated the first fully developed and nuanced theory of what he termed “the Moral Revolution” to characterize the historical shift emerging roughly around 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, most notably ancient China, India, Judaism, and Greece, as part of a broader critical philosophy of history. He continued to write on the idea over decades in books and articles and also presented his ideas to the fledgling Sociological Society of London in 1905, which were published the following year in the volume Sociological Papers, Volume 2. This article discusses Stuart-Glennie’s ideas on the moral revolution in the context of his philosophy of history, including what he termed “panzooinism”; ideas with implications for contemporary debates in theory, comparative history, and sociology of religion. It shows why he should be acknowledged as the originator of the theory now known as the axial age, and also now be included as a significant sociologist in the movement toward the establishment of sociology.


2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Davis ◽  
Sherry Cummings ◽  
Samuel MacMaster ◽  
Albert Thompkins

English The current study explored how social work educators responded to the war with Iraq. The majority of respondents felt that faculty had a responsibility to educate students about the war. However, more Australian respondents felt that social work faculty had a responsibility to advocate for or against the war. French La présente étude explore la réponse des professeurs en travail social à la guerre en Irak. La majoritédes répondants soutiennent que leur facultéa la responsabilitéde renseigner les étudiants au sujet de la guerre. Toutefois, les répondants australiens soutiennent en plus grand nombre que la facultéa aussi la responsabilitéde justifier un positionnement en faveur ou à l'encontre de la guerre. Spanish El presente estudio explorócómo reaccionaron los educadores de trabajo social frente a la guerra con Iraq. La mayoría de los entrevistados expresóque la facultad tenía la responsabilidad de educar a los estudiantes acerca de la guerra. Sin embargo, muchos de los entrevistados australianos manifestaron que la facultad de trabajo social tenía una responsabilidad de abogar por la guerra o en contra de ella.


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