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The Sacred Canopy
Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
Peter L. Berger
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The Sacred Canopy
Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
Peter L. Berger
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"The most important contribution to the sociology of religion since Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism " ( Commonweal ).
Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory. Berger examines the roots of religious belief and its gradual dissolution in modern times, applying a general theoretical perspective to specific examples from religions throughout the ages. Building upon the author's previous work, The Social Construction of Reality, with Thomas Luckmann, this book makes Berger's case that human societies build a "sacred canopy" to protect, stabilize, and give meaning to their worldview.
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Subject Index
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Abbasid Revolution, 69
Absolutism, and ultimate reality, 57; ethical, 122
Action, Divine, 68â69, 118; courses of, 93; freedom of, 119
Activity, religious, 41, 45; and karma-samsara complex, 65; rational, 68; human, 81, 89, 91â92, 95â96, 100; meaningful, 86
Acts, religious, 41
Adultery, and marriage, 94
Affirmations, religious, 168
Affliction, and Divine intervention, 68
Ahriman, 71
Akkadia creation epic, 117
Albigensians, persecution of, 49
Alienation, religious, 81, 94, 98, 100â1; definition of, 85; of man, 91â92, 96; legitimate, 95
Allegiance, church, 138
Aloneness, and man, 56
America, secularization of, 108; anticlericalism in, 130; middle-class, 133, 146; and Protestantism, 137, 143; theological changes in, 161; and neo-orthodoxy, 165â66; psychotherapeutic programs in, 167â68; Judaism in, 170
Amos, Book of, 116
Anarchism, legitimation of, 98
Ancestors, and immortality, 62â63
Ancient City, The, 191
Ancient Judaism, 201
Ancient Near Eastern Texts, 202
Angels, in Catholic theology, 121
Anglicanism, and the Reformation, 111; and rationalism, 157â58; revival of orthodoxy, 162
Animals, and man, 4; environment of, 5; species of, 17; and power, 25â26; sufferings of, 62
Animism, theory of, 61, 175
Anomy, terror of, 23, 26, 49â50, 90; alienation with, 94
Anthropology, problems of, 78â79; and social world, 85; and false consciousness, 94; and religion, 176â77, 180, 185
Antinomian Movement, 98
Antiquity, classical, 124
Anxieties, and self-denial, 55
Apologetics, in the Church, 159
Apprehension, in socio-cultural world, 87
Aquinas, Thomas, 182
Arianism, condemnation of, 77
Arjuna, 87â88
Asceticism, mysticism of, 64; and liberation, 97; life of, 122
Asia, Eastern, 34, 135
Atahualpa, 45
Atheism, methodological, 100, 180; scientific, 110
Atman-brahman, and Hindu soteriology, 67
Atrocities, Nazi, 78â79
Authoritarianism, political, 34, 57; paternal, 38; of the laity, 133, 139
Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition, 204
Autonomy, measure of, 4...