Beyond Dogmas: Religion, Social Service, and Social Life in the United States  

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Lichterman, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: AJS: American Journal of Sociology vol. 113 no. 01 (Jul. 2007), page 243-257.
Topik: Religion; United States; Social Service
Fulltext: AJS Vol.113 No.1 (Jul 2007) p.243-257 (win).pdf (71.99KB)

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Forty years ago, not one but three prominent sociologists—Peter Berger (1967), Thomas Luckmann (1967), and Talcott Parsons (1967)—each published sweeping statements on religion in the modern world. They had the United States particularly in mind. Their arguments differed, but each implied that religion had become highly sequestered, residing mainly inside congregational worship and private rumination. Their assessments became descriptive as well as normative common sense for many sociologists, a kind of dogma. Over the past two decades, criticisms of classical versions of the secularization thesis, debates about culture wars, the renaissance of interest in Alexis de Tocqueville’s writings on civic life, and a steady stream of works about the Christian Right show that the dogma’s hold on the sociological imagination has weakened. Whether or not religion’s institutional power has decreased in the United States, many researchers now investigate the wider social roles of congregations and other religious organizations rather than assume a priori that these are too insignificant to study.

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