Steve Bruce

Researching Religion

Why We Need Social Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This indispensable reference tool offers a practicing social scientist's guide to researching social causes, components, and consequences of religion in the modern world.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780198786580
• ISBN-10: 0198786581
• Artikelnr.: 51970153

Autorenporträt

Steve Bruce is Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. His previous publications include Secular Beats Spiritual: The Westernization of the Easternization of the West (2017), Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory (2013), Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland (2007), Sociology: A Very Short Introduction (2000), and Choice and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory (1999). He is also the editor of Bryan R. Wilson's Religion in Secular Society: Fifty Years On (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Prelude: Some Basic Principles of Social Research
2: The Value of Social Science
3: Defining Religion
4: Measuring Religion
5: Bias in Social Research
6: Ethics in Social Research
7: Conversion: Motives, Structures, and Discourse
8: Social Theory and Religion
9: Action Rational and Irrational
10: Does Danger Make People Religious?