Religion and the Individual: Belief, Practice, Identity (Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series, in association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group)

A British Association for the Sociology of Religion will gradually become aware, presumably, that "religion", in its own habitat, for whatever reason, bears more resemblance to the Benedictine "rule of Ufe" than to the civic rites, beloved of French classicists. [...] to be a &qu...

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Published in:A journal of church and state 2009, Vol.51 (2), p.350-351
Main Author: Bailey, Edward
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Belief & doubt
Nonfiction
Religion
Sociology
Theology
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Summary:A British Association for the Sociology of Religion will gradually become aware, presumably, that "religion", in its own habitat, for whatever reason, bears more resemblance to the Benedictine "rule of Ufe" than to the civic rites, beloved of French classicists. [...] to be a "secular priest" may make ludicrous sense to literati who equate Church/State with Religion/Society, but is precisely what those on the Clapham omnibus hope for, and mean by, "religious." [...] these first two contributions suffice to give a flavour of the book's interest- and of the way in which the sociology of religion is recognising, not only the exceptionalness of the European case, but, within even that generalization, the peculiarity of its specifically English (and British?) form.
ISSN:0021-969X
2040-4867
DOI:10.1093/jcs/csp045