Titlebook: Sociology and the World‘s Religions; Malcolm B. Hamilton Book 1998 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998 ant

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Hinduism,e. The world religions remain a seriously neglected field in the sociology of religion which has concentrated almost entirely on a narrow range of issues within the sphere of the Christian tradition such as the nature of sectarianism, secularisation and so on.

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Introduction, who are normally regarded as the founding fathers of sociology gave considerable prominence to religion in their work. Emile Durkheim devoted a lengthy volume to the analysis of religion and Max Weber’s scholarship in this area produced no less than five volumes in English translation.. Marx, it is

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Religion in Tribal Societies,primary’ religion, and so on. It is often a misleading division since included in the world religions one usually finds Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism all of which are confined to particular communities or parts of the world. One might argue that the only truly world religions

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Christianity,lars have recently attempted to apply sociological models to this question, few sociologists have attempted to apply their skills and insights to it. Among the classic theorists it has been Marxist writers, and then largely only nineteenth-century ones, who have given the subject their attention. Ma

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Islam,ere are, however, scattered throughout his writings, many observations and references to Islam. From these fragmented materials Bryan Turner (1974), has attempted to reconstruct Weber’s analysis of Islam to comment on its theoretical implications and significance and to subject it to critical apprai

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Conclusion,too much since the range of possibilities is limited, as Stark and Bainbridge (1987) point out, only by the human imagination. The very diversity itself testifies to the problematic nature of this search. A not unreasonable conclusion to draw from this might well be that even after millennia of huma