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History, time, meaning, and memory [electronic resource] : ideas for the sociology of religion / edited by Barbara Jones Denison.

Contributor(s): Series: Religion and the social order ; v. 20.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 267 p.)ISBN:
  • 9789004215610 (electronic bk.)
  • 9004215611 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: History, time, meaning, and memory.DDC classification:
  • 306.6 23
LOC classification:
  • BL60 .D46 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface: Traveling through time / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Introduction: History, time, meaning, and memory in the sociology of religion / Barbara Jones Denison -- Clio goes to church, again : places for history in the sociology of religion / Kevin J. Christiano -- The history of meaning / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Historical observation in the sociology of religion : a view from within the communicative networks of two scientific disciplines / Peter Beyer -- Past in the present : indigenous leadership and party politics among the Amasiri of Southeastern Nigeria / Elijah Obinna -- The development and major problems of religious legislation in Taiwan / Pen-Hsuan Lin -- Developing a historical sociology of nationalism and state secularization in Latin America / Jonathan Eastwood -- Religion and deviance : theocrats vs. democrats / Nachman Ben-Yehuda -- On the processes and problematics of representing divinity : Dio Chrysostom (ca. 40-120) and the pragmatist motif / Robert Prus -- The genres of religious freedom : creating discourses on religion at the State Department / Rick Moore -- Afterword : what is history? / John H. Simpson.
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Preface: Traveling through time / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Introduction: History, time, meaning, and memory in the sociology of religion / Barbara Jones Denison -- Clio goes to church, again : places for history in the sociology of religion / Kevin J. Christiano -- The history of meaning / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Historical observation in the sociology of religion : a view from within the communicative networks of two scientific disciplines / Peter Beyer -- Past in the present : indigenous leadership and party politics among the Amasiri of Southeastern Nigeria / Elijah Obinna -- The development and major problems of religious legislation in Taiwan / Pen-Hsuan Lin -- Developing a historical sociology of nationalism and state secularization in Latin America / Jonathan Eastwood -- Religion and deviance : theocrats vs. democrats / Nachman Ben-Yehuda -- On the processes and problematics of representing divinity : Dio Chrysostom (ca. 40-120) and the pragmatist motif / Robert Prus -- The genres of religious freedom : creating discourses on religion at the State Department / Rick Moore -- Afterword : what is history? / John H. Simpson.

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