Communities of Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communities of Discourse write by Robert Wuthnow. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Communities of Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest challenges to the status quo in the development of modern society--the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the rise of Marxist socialism.
Virtuosity, Charisma and Social Order
Virtuosity, Charisma and Social Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtuosity, Charisma and Social Order write by Ilana Friedrich-Silber. This book was released on 1995-04-28. Virtuosity, Charisma and Social Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a comparative macrosociological study of the interaction between religious virtuosi and society in two civilizations: traditional Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism. Merging Weberian sociology with the Maussian tradition of gift-analysis, and criticizing the neglect of meaning in current comparative historical sociology, the author also argues the need for a multidimensional approach capable of addressing the part played by religious orientations in shaping the institutional strength and ideological power of religious elites in the historical framework of the Great Traditions.
Recovering the Scandal of the Cross
Recovering the Scandal of the Cross - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recovering the Scandal of the Cross write by Mark D. Baker. This book was released on 2011-08-02. Recovering the Scandal of the Cross available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its publication in 2000, Recovering the Scandal of the Cross has provoked thought among evangelicals about the nature of the atonement and how it should be expressed in today's various global contexts. In this second edition Green and Baker have clarified and enlarged the text to ensure its ongoing critical relevance.
Theorizing Revolutions
Theorizing Revolutions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theorizing Revolutions write by John Foran. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Theorizing Revolutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Theorizing Revolutions, some of the most exciting thinkers in the study of revolutions today look critically at the many theoretical frameworks through which revolutions can be understood and apply them to specific revolutionary cases. The theoretical approaches considered in this way include state-centred perspectives, structural theory, world-system analysis, elite models, demographic theories and feminism and the revolutions covered range in time from the French Revolution to Eastern Europe in 1989 and in place from Russia to Vietnam and Nicaragua.
Sociology On Culture
Sociology On Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sociology On Culture write by Marshall Battani. This book was released on 2004-06-02. Sociology On Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Culture has become a touchstone of interdisciplinary conversation. For readers interested in sociology, the social sciences and the humanities, this book maps major classical and contemporary analyses and cultural controversies in relation to social processes, everyday life, and axes of ordering and difference - such as race, class and gender. Hall, Neitz, and Battani discuss: self and identity stratification the Other the cultural histories of modernity and postmodernity production of culture the problem of the audience action, social movements, and change. The authors advocate cultivating the sociological imagination by engaging myriad languages and perspectives of the social sciences and humanities, while cultivating cultural studies by developing the sociological imagination. Paying little respect to boundaries, and incorporating fascinating examples, this book draws on diverse intellectual perspectives and a variety of topics from various historical periods and regions of the world.
