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Social Theory and Religion.(Book Review)
Sociology of Religion
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December 22, 2004|
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Social Theory and Religion, by JAMES A. BECKFORD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 252 pp., $45 cloth, $16.95 paper.
Some books transform our understanding of their topics. Fewer books transform their disciplines. And a very few transform those who read them, such that they can never again approach their own subject matters in their accustomed ways. Jim Beckford's long-awaited "summa" may do all three.
Beckford's Religion and Advanced Industrial Society (1989) was a masterful, yet incomplete account of sociologists' various understandings of ...
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VILLA LOOKING JUST CHAMPION.(Football)
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