Classical and contemporary sociology of religion: an open continulity WSE-SO-CaCSR:OC

he program is about the problematique of classicasl and contemporary sociological analysis of religion.In the separate lectures it can be clearly distinguished and tracked.Viewed as a whole, this program encompass the sociological universe of discourse about classical categories of the analyse of religin and its transformation in modern and postmodern uses.We want to elaborate some specifically point of view on the function of the religion in society in transition. More specifically, we analyze this discourse by distiguishing sic foci of reseach:
(1)Modern humanism and the crisis of sociology: problem of definitions
(2).Confrontation between modern social structure and culture with secularisation and secularism
(3)Religion as culture, functional analysis , and structural differentiation
(4)Religion and society in transition
(5) On the religious scene in the modern central and Eastern Europe
(6)Religion, culture, identity and globalization
Each of these foci has own presentation on the lecture. Each of the lecture shows the main questions and delineates the relevant analytical unit. Among them there is the problem of the continuity and discontinuity in the sociology of religion as a problem of its theory , methodology ,and practice. It is also the problem of modern expereince of religion itself. We will be demonstrating that there are possibilities tio elaborate with pinpoint accuracy some specific sociological point of view on the topic that we derive from the literature regarding the various foci of the sociological discourse
All data the same as in the introductory description

1. Religion,Culture& Society. A Reader in the Sociology of Religion. Ed. by L.Schneider, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1964
2. The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, Ed.. by J/A. Beckford and N.J. Demerath III, SAGE Publications,Los Angeles, London,. 2007
3. Identity, Culture and Globalization. Ed. by E. ben-Rafael, Y.Sterberg, Brill, London, 2002
4.Religion as a Human Capacity. Ed. by T.Light & B.C.Wilson, Brill, Leiden, Boston, 2004
5.C. Geertz, The Interpretations of Cultures. basic Books, New York, 2000
6. The Oxford handbook of the Sociology of Religion, Ed. by P.B. Clarke. Oxford, University Press, 2011
7. The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion. Ed. by R.K. Fenn, Blackwell Publishing, 2003
8.The Oxford Handbook of Global religions, Ed. by M. Juergenmeyer, Oxford, Univeristy Press, 2006
Supplementary Literature
SUPPLEMENTARY lITERATURE
1.Norris. P. Inglehart. Sacred and Secular. Religion and Politics Worldwide.Oxford. 2005
2. Beckford, J. Social Theory and Religion, Oxford University Press, 2003

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