A Comparative Sociology of World Religions
Subtitle: Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: August 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780814798058
Subjects: Comparative Religion; Sociology, Social Studies; Religion; Religion and sociology; Religion - World Religions; Sociology of Religion; Religions
First sentence: The period of the emergence of the world religions has been termed an axial age, an age in which independent but, in some respects, parallel religious breakthroughs took place in China, India, and the Middle East.