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THE ENCHANTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY: A STUDY OF THEOLOGY AND CULTURE

Flanagan, Kieran

1996

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  • Título:
    THE ENCHANTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY: A STUDY OF THEOLOGY AND CULTURE
  • Autor: Flanagan, Kieran
  • Assuntos: Culture ; History of Sociology ; Postmodernism ; Social Constructionism ; Sociology ; Theology
  • Notas: SourceType-Books-1
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  • Descrição: Investigates the construction & public management of the relation between theology & sociology in the 20th century, drawing on the social constructivist perspective of Georg Simmel, Peter L. Berger, & Erving Goffman. Theology has experienced a crisis of legitimacy in the 20th century as it has sought to accommodate the scientization of culture, a fact illustrated most explicitly by the Vatican II document, which affirmed tolerance, dignity, & modern values. By seeking an arrangement with modern culture, theology put itself within the discursive logic of a sociology of knowledge. At the same time, it was a secularized theology that gave rise to the 20th-century academic culture that elevated principles of reason to an exalted status. Ironically, sociology's scientific explanations of the world have led to a kind of disenchantment & spiritual malaise produced by the inability to believe or have faith. The postmodern impulse of the late 20th century is in one sense a recognition of the loss of faith & in another the search for revelation. A postmodern understanding that does not lapse into a moral cynicism might begin with Pierre Bourdieu's insight that the cultural field is at once knowable & replete with illusion & peril. To understand the play of science & belief, sociology must traverse the religious field. Theology therefore informs a mature, reflexive sociology by allowing the sociologist to bear witness to the contextual basis of belief. Following a Preface, the book contains 6 Chpts, accompanied by Notes: (1) Sociology, Culture and Religious Belief: Some Reflections. (2) 'To Be or Not to Be': The Sociologist's Dream. (3) Theology and Culture: An Ambiguous Encounter. (4) The Disappearance of God: The Secularisation of Sociology. (5) Concealing and Revealing: The Cultural Prospects of Belief. (6) To Canaan's Side: Crossing Culture in Theological and Sociological Safety. Bibliog. D. M. Smith
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1996
  • Idioma: Inglês
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