History, time, meaning, and memory
Subtitle: ideas for the sociology of religion
By: edited by Barbara Jones Denison
Series: Religion and the social order -- v. 20
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9789004210622
Subjects: Social aspects; Religion and sociology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface : Traveling through time / William H.  Swatos, Jr.; title: Introduction : history, time, meaning, and memory in the sociology of religion / Barbara Jones Denison; title: Clio goes to church, again : places for history in the sociology of religion  / Kevin J. Christiano; title: The history of meaning /  William H. Swatos, Jr.; title: Historical observation in the sociology of religion : a view from within the communicative networks of two scientific disciplines / Peter Beyer; title: Past in the present : indigenous leadership and party politics among the Amasiri of Southeastern Nigeria / Elijah Obinna; title: The development and major problems of religious legislation in Taiwan / Pen-Hsuan Lin; title: Developing a historical sociology of nationalism and state secularization in Latin America / Jonathan  Eastwood; title: Religion and deviance : theocrats vs. democrats / Nachman Ben-Yehuda; title: On the processes and problematics of representing divinity : Dio Chrysostom  (ca. 40-120) and the pragmatist  motif / Robert Prus; title: The genres of religious freedom : creating discourses on religion at the State Department / Rick  Moore; title: Afterword : what is history? / John H.  Simpson.