Add to ORKGtextabstractThe ambition of the present paper is to theorise processes of re-enchantment in the modern western world by drawing on Max Weber’s and Emile Durkheim’s classical sociological insights on modernity, meaning and religion. Our aim in doing so is not only to demonstrate how much the latter have to offer to such an analysis, but especially to argue for the need of a rejuvenation of sociology of religion by shrugging off its traditional Christian bias and going beyond its narrow focus on secularisation and religious decline
Max Weber argued that a religious group or individual is influenced by all kinds of things but if th...
It is an important fact in the history of the study of religion that the development of sociology as...
According to Max Weber, 'the fate of our times' is characterized by the ‘disenchantment of the world...
The secularization thesis is a prominent paradigm within the sociology of religion. It holds that mo...
Religion is one of the main instruments for understanding any social phenomena. As it is well known...
It is by now well known that the modern category of religion has evolved as part of a certain trajec...
In this chapter I develop a number of critical reflections on the analysis of religion in both conte...
Both in the popular mind and in the social sciences, images of the modern world and the forces that ...
The article focuses on the main features of the secular world in its interaction with postmodernizat...
During the last decades of the twentieth century, Western philosophy saw a renewed interest in relig...
National audienceIn this paper, the author tries to highlight the definition of the mystagogy as it ...
Amidst the recent resurgence of interest in religion as one of the main ‘sources of the self’, Max W...
The aim of this paper is to present a scientific debate on the role that religion plays in modern so...
"An examination of the three unique structural features of modern societies: inclusion of the whole ...
[Extract] The French sociologist Émile Durkheim once claimed that religion represents the "serious l...
Max Weber argued that a religious group or individual is influenced by all kinds of things but if th...
It is an important fact in the history of the study of religion that the development of sociology as...
According to Max Weber, 'the fate of our times' is characterized by the ‘disenchantment of the world...
The secularization thesis is a prominent paradigm within the sociology of religion. It holds that mo...
Religion is one of the main instruments for understanding any social phenomena. As it is well known...
It is by now well known that the modern category of religion has evolved as part of a certain trajec...
In this chapter I develop a number of critical reflections on the analysis of religion in both conte...
Both in the popular mind and in the social sciences, images of the modern world and the forces that ...
The article focuses on the main features of the secular world in its interaction with postmodernizat...
During the last decades of the twentieth century, Western philosophy saw a renewed interest in relig...
National audienceIn this paper, the author tries to highlight the definition of the mystagogy as it ...
Amidst the recent resurgence of interest in religion as one of the main ‘sources of the self’, Max W...
The aim of this paper is to present a scientific debate on the role that religion plays in modern so...
"An examination of the three unique structural features of modern societies: inclusion of the whole ...
[Extract] The French sociologist Émile Durkheim once claimed that religion represents the "serious l...
Max Weber argued that a religious group or individual is influenced by all kinds of things but if th...
It is an important fact in the history of the study of religion that the development of sociology as...
According to Max Weber, 'the fate of our times' is characterized by the ‘disenchantment of the world...