Religion, religions and sociological concepts: critical notes on the normative hermeneutics of religion

This article, from anthropological and sociological reflections, intends to analyze the mutual influences between the religious feld and society from some empirical dynamics. We analyzed the semantic uses of some categories. Also, we present sketches of rereading’s of some classic sociological analyzes of religion. We will bring some empirical examples of contemporary religious phenomena, concluding that it is necessary, by other means of approach, to understand the interactions between contemporary religious phenomena and great social changes. Other routes of epistemological understanding may help scholars of religion to shed new light on the dynamics of religion