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   May 7, 2020 · This article revisits Emile Durkheim’s sociologie religieuse and explores its potential and limitation for analyzing contemporary religious reconfigurations in the twenty-first century. First, it reviews how the “New Durkheim” as recovered by the recent historiography of classical sociology defined, explained, and assessed religion.

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   There are three different ways of defining religion in sociology — substantial definitions, functional definitions, and family resemblance definitions — each of which has consequences for what counts as a religion, and each of which has limitations and strengths in its explanatory power (Dawson and Thiessen, 2014).

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   How do you define religion in sociology?

   • CC BY-SA 3.0 There are three different ways of defining religion in sociology — substantial definitions, functional definitions, and family resemblance definitions — each of which has consequences for what counts as a religion, and each of which has limitations and strengths in its explanatory power (Dawson and Thiessen, 2014).

   15.1 The Sociological Approach to Religion

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   Is religion a sociological phenomenon?

   • Broadly inclusive of traditional research topics (modernity, secularization, politics) as well as newer interests (feminism, spirituality, faith based community action), this handbook illustrates the validity of diverse theoretical perspectives and research designs to understanding the multi-layered nature of religion as a sociological phenomenon.

   Handbook of the Sociology of Religion - Cambridge University Press

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   What is religious experience in sociology?

   • In studying religion, sociologists distinguish between what they term the experience, beliefs, and rituals of a religion. Religious experience refers to the conviction or sensation that we are connected to “the divine.” This type of communion might be experienced when people are pray or meditate.

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   How do you define religion based on family resemblance?

   • It is also possible to define religion in terms of a cluster of attributes based on family resemblance. This cluster includes four attributes: types of belief, ritual, experience, and social form. This type of definition has the ability to capture aspects of both the substantive and functional definitions.

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   Discuss the historical view of religion from a sociological perspective. Understand how the major sociological paradigms view religion. From the Latin religio (respect for what is sacred) and religare (to bind, in the sense of an obligation), the term religion describes various systems of belief and practice that define what people consider to ...

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   Sep 2, 2009 · This article tackles the vexed question of defining religion by looking at a map of the landscape through which definers travel. It highlights the merits of a social-constructionist approach to the issue, maintaining that definitions cannot be isolated from the position of the definer in global society, or from the religion and science and the ...

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   Sep 19, 2018 · To define “religion”, to say what it is, is not possible at the start of a presentation such as this. Definition can be attempted, if at all, only at the end of the study. The essence of religion is not even our concern, as we make it our own task to study the conditions and effects of a particular type of social behaviour. (Weber, [1922 ...

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   For instance, when the Roman Catholic Church emerged, it borrowed many of its organizational principles from the ancient Roman military and turned senators into cardinals, for example. Sociologists use different terms, like ecclesia, denomination, and sect, to define these types of organizations.

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   Book description. This Handbook showcases research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide original chapters focusing on select aspects of their own engagement with the field. Aimed at students and scholars who want to know more about the sociology of religion, this ...