William H Swatos
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3604328 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William H Swatos |
| NOMBRES | William H |
| APELLIDO | Swatos |
| FIRMA | SWATOS W H |
| AFILIACIONES | St. Ann's Episcopal Church |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 127 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 188 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Gender and Religion
Denomination
The term “denomination” was innovated in the late seventeenth century by groups of Christians in England who dissented from the established Church of England but considered themselves loyal to the British state and recognized the monarch as having rights with respect to the Church of England. In 1702 Presbyterian, Baptist, and Congregationalist clergy formed “the body of the Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations in and about the City of…
Hawthorne Effect
The Hawthorne effect is the name that has been given to the possibility that a subject in a research project may change their behavior in a positive manner simply as a result of being aware that they are being studied. This concept takes its name from research studies conducted from 1924 to 1933 at the Western Electric Company's Hawthorne plant near Chicago, Illinois, which ultimately came under the direction of Elton Mayo of Harvard University. …
Sacred/Profane
The significance of the sacred/profane distinction in sociology is to be most directly credited to Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1915), first published in France as Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse in 1912. The distinction had an enormous direct effect in the sociology of religion, but also powerfully influenced the broader sociological theoretical paradigm of functionalism, since in the Forms , which was publ…
Sect
Although the term “sect” has played a role in both political sociology and the study of social movements at the hands of many Marxians as well as early sociologists such as Le Bon, Sighele, Park, and Simmel, its primary continuing application has been among sociologists of religion in the context of church–sect theory. The dominance of this use has led to its virtual abandonment in other sociological subfields. In this context, a sect may be defi…
Testing Pluralism
This volume of the Religion and the Social Order series examines the phenomenon of the globalization of religions that has particularly characterized the last fifty years. Historically, religions were relatively tightly connected with territoriality. The advent of relatively inexpensive and relatively accessible air transport has made it possible for groups of significant size to move from their original homelands and resettle in new sites. In co…
Of Elections and Emeritus Memberships
The balloting for the 2013 RRA elections has now been completed. Your voting yielded the following outcomes: Jack Marcum was elected President for a term that begins in 2015. He became Vice-President at the end of this year’s annual meeting. Mary Gautier and Melinda Lundquist Denton were elected to 4-year terms on the RRA Board of Directors. They also took office at the end of this year’s annual meeting. Conrad Hackett and Robert Woodberry were e…
The function of ‘Church’ in the sociology of religion in America
In large part, Max Weber’s essay ‘Church and sect in America’ was intended as a contrast between European and American societies at the turn of the 20th century. This could be pushed so far as to say that in fact the essay was not about religions at all but rather about the relationship between an old-order class system and a new-order class system in which sectarian religion provided a conduit to validate worldly success (i.e. the Protestant eth…
Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse
Context of Religious Research Accompanying “Call for Papers”
Context of Religious Research
Implicit Religious Assumptions within the Resurgence of Civil Religion in the USA since 9/11
Any number of societal reactions to the attacks of 11 September 2001 could be conceived as theoretical possibilities within the United States. In this article I want to make the argument that what a number of writers, but most notably Robert Bellah, have identified as civil religion in America provided the principal cultural resource that served to reintegrate and unite Americans in a coherent national response to the crisis. This is true because…
Chapter Three. The Protestant Ethic Thesis As American Sociology Of Religion
This chapter discusses The Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism that Talcott Parsons's translation brought to Anglo-America in 1930. Parsons described his contribution to the discipline that of acting as an importer - a few hundred pages yielding tens of thousands, perhaps even more, it is virtually impossible to catalogue the entire range of Protestant ethic scholarship. A dominant chord in sociology today would interpret Weber in the context of E…
Televangelism
Initially an American phenomenon, televangelism refers to the use of television for Christian missionary outreach, of an evangelical‐fundamentalist type, usually incarnated in a single leadership figure, which became particularly prominent in the 1970s as a result of shifts in broadcasting policies regulated by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1960. Prior to that time, the FCC required the commercial broadcast networks…
Path Analysis
Because of the difficulty in sociological research of conducting experiments that will yield valid and meaningful results, sociologists have looked for quasi‐experimental designs in which statistical measures can be interrelated in a logical sequence to suggest causality. Path analysis is the most widely used of such approaches. Path analysis combines both a theoretical (or logical) analysis with a statistical analysis, inasmuch as a logical argu…
Constructionism
Preeminently the result of Berger and Luckmann's book The Social Construction of Reality (1966), constructionist theory claims that what human beings at any moment hold to be $@#*^%#@#ldquo;real$@#*^%#@#rdquor; in social experience is itself a social creation, and in that moment is simultaneously a social product and production. Drawing particularly upon the work of Mead and Sch$@#*^%#@#uuml;tz, they posit a three$@#*^%#@#hyphen;moment dialectic …
Family Transformed
Anglicans in Canada
From Medieval Pilgrimage to Religious Tourism
Journal Article From Medieval Pilgrimage to Religious Tourism: The Social and Cultural Economics of Piety, William H. Swatos, Jr. and Luigi Tomasi (eds.). Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002, 232 pp, $64.95 (cloth) Get access Kathryn Rountree Kathryn Rountree Massey University, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 2, Summer 2005, Pages 211–212, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Blood Sacrifice and the Nation
Perspectives on Civil Religion
From Civil to Political Religion
With the exception of Max Weber's Protestant Ethic essays, there is no single article in the social scientific study of religion that has created so extensive a subsequent literature as Robert Bellah's 'Civil Religion in America' published in Daedalus, the official journal of the American scholarly fraternity Phi Beta Kappa, in 1967.Indeed, if proportion of words written about is laid against words originally written on, then Bellah's piece may i…
They Call Him Pastor
Sociology of Religion
Sociology of Religion
Journal Article Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments, by Kevin Christiano, William Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2002, 365 pp.; $44.95 (cloth) Get access Susanne C. Monahan Susanne C. Monahan Montana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 4, Winter 2003, Pages 525–526, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712340 Publishe…
Secularization Theory
Journal Article Introduction - Secularization Theory: The Course of a Concept Get access William H. Swatos, Jr., William H. Swatos, Jr. * University of Notre DameExecutive Office, Association for the Sociology of Religion * Direct correspondence to the ASR Executive Office. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kevin J. Christiano Kevin J. Christiano University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author…
The Disenchantment of Charisma
This essay addresses the question of whether and how it is possible to bring about major changes in the ways in which we order our lives in rationalized bureaucratic society. Genuine charisma—which Max Weber termed "the specifically creative revolutionary force in history"—is dependent upon social enchantment. In modern rationalized and disenchanted social systems charismatic revolution seems to be an impossibility. These correlative assertions a…
Max Weber as 'Christian Sociologist
This essay argues that Max Weber's life and work were significantly affected by his Christian faith tradition and world view, and that in this respect he is not to be differentiated from many early American sociologists. A significant point of differentiation occurs, however, in that Weber turned to the study of religion as a generic phenomenon, rather than simply writing about religious organizations or avoiding the topic altogether
Picketing Satan Enfleshed at 7-Eleven
Faith of the Fathers
The Relevance of Religion
in Iceland provides the focus for a historical-comparative and participant observation study of the supposed of religion in secular society. judgment of irrelevance appears to depend largely on a peculiar definitional construct, formed with little immediate connection to the experience of the participants in the system. A situational definition grounded in the participants' understandings of their own actions produces a rather different assessmen…
Weber or Troeltsch
The historical development of church-sect theory is analyzed, and two major points are made. First, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of church-sect in its original use by Max Weber and, in particular, in the context of his treatment of the ideal type. Second, since the work of Ernst Troeltsch, the use of church-sect in the sociology of religion has been beset by the Troeltschian syndrome-a misdirected focusing upon Troeltsch's use…
On Latin American Protestantism
Using a neo-Weberian approach, I first develop a tripartite analysis of Protestantism in the western hemisphere today: traditionalist, ascetic, and romantic. I then illustrate the value of this by an overview of Protestant activity in contemporary Latin America
Church-Sect and Cult
The concept cult is discussed in light of recent attempts to relate it to church-sect theory. In a quest for a theoretically consistent and fruitful sociology of religious movements, the asceticism-mysticism continuum, rather than church-sect, is more appropriate to analyses of the origins of new religious groups. Cult-order is urged as a better typological framework than church-sect-denomination for conceptualizing formative organizational proce…
Enchantment and Disenchantment in Modernity
This essay assesses the religion-and-society problematic in modernity in light of the processes of pluralization and institutional differentiation that occur as societies become increasingly integrated into the world-system. Traditional categories for understanding religion are based upon models that no longer fit actual circumstances, if ever they did. In particular, the mystical-magical dimensions of religion—heretofore largely excluded as posi…
Beyond Denominationalism
Le phenomene des aux Etats-Unis, sa signification socio-culturelle, le declin apparent du type de religiosite qu'il suppose dans la societe contemporaine et l'emergence d'Eglises denominationnelles. Avec le passage de la societe rurale a la societe urbaine, les denominations traditionnelles, en tant qu'organisations religieuses en conformite avec leur environnement socio-culturel, se sont developpees en vastes entreprises supra locales a but non …
Politics and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe
Tables and Figures Preface Traditions and Transitions: Reflections on the Problems and Prospects for Religions in Eastern and Central Europe by Roberto Cipriani Religio-Nationalist Subcultures in the Soviet Union: Comparisons and Conceptual Refinements by Hank Johnston Religion in Post-Communist Countries: A Comparative Study of Religiousness in Byelorussia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, and Poland by Irena Borowik The New Europe and the Value Orie…
Religious Sociology and the Sociology of Religion in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This essay focuses on the American Sociological Society meeting of 1909, the topic of which was “Religion and Modern Society.” Although there were numerous ventures in “Christian sociology” during the 1890s, this was the first professional society meeting to consider religion “scientifically.” Particular attention is given to a heretofore unpublished memorandum by Charles W. A. Veditz, ASS secretary, to the ASS leadership in 1909, articulating co…
The Power of Prayer
Monopolism, Pluralism, Acceptance, and Rejection
Sacred/Profane
The significance of the sacred/profane distinction in sociology is to be most directly credited to Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1915), first published in France as Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse in 1912. The distinction had an enormous direct effect in the sociology of religion, but also powerfully influenced the broader sociological theoretical paradigm of functionalism, since in the Forms , which was publ…
Sociology of Religion
Journal Article Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments, by Kevin Christiano, William Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2002, 365 pp.; $44.95 (cloth) Get access Susanne C. Monahan Susanne C. Monahan Montana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 4, Winter 2003, Pages 525–526, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712340 Publishe…
Schools of Asceticism
Journal Article Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities, by Lutz Kaelber. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, 278 pp. $19.95 (pbk) Get access William H. Swatos, Jr. William H. Swatos, Jr. Executive Officer Association for the Sociology of Religion and Religious Research Association Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volu…
Twentieth-Century World Religious Movements in Neo-Weberian Perspective
These essays seek to apply the conceptual apparatus pioneered by Max Weber in his studies of the major world religions to developments in religious traditions around the globe over the past century. Topics covered include the continuing legacy of Confucianism and Taoism in Chinese culture; neo-Confucianism in Singapore schools; political religion in Communist China; Zen Buddhism in the United States and Japan; Buddhist reinterpretation in Sri Lan…
Beyond Wertfreiheit Max Weber and Moral Order
Although the name of Max Weber is often associated with scientific amorality, in this article we explore the quest for a moral order that permeated his sociology. We begin by reexamining the nature and function of Wertfreiheit in Weber's thought and action. Then, drawing primarily from materials in Marianne Weber's biography of her husband, we show that applied, value relevant, issues characterized the bulk of Weber's work throughout his life. Fi…
Renewing “Religion” for Sociology
The position of sociology of religion in the larger discipline has become problematic. A major reason for this is continued reliance on an underlying functionalist definition conceived in evolutionist terms. An approach based upon the “definition of the situation” concept is offered as a more adequate alternative. Religion is defined as “a patterning of social relationships around a belief in supernatural powers, creating ethical considerations.”…
Weber and Interpretive Sociology in America
This article examines the role of Weber's methodological writings on verstehende Soziologie in the construction of an American variant of interpretive sociology during the first half of the twentieth century. It thereby illustrates the connections between intellectual appropriation and the academic institutionalization of competing sociological schools. After reviewing Weber's general reception in American sociology, it focuses on the respective …
The Faith of the Fathers
The early development of American sociology is often discussed in the context of late nineteenth-century Protestantism, with the implication that in these years sociology was a part of this organizational-institutional nexus. This essay argues that it is more accurate to interpret this aspect of sociology's history as related to general trends in American religion as a socio-cultural system, but distinct from any specific program within the Prote…
Sects and Success
Journal Article Sects and Success: Missverstehen in Mt. Airy Get access William H. Swatos, Jr. William H. Swatos, Jr. St. Mark's Episcopal ChurchSilvis, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 4, Winter 1982, Pages 375–379, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710834 Published: 01 December 1982
The Comparative Method and the Special Vocation of the Sociology of Religion
This essay argues that the long-run scientific goals of understanding and prediction can be achieved only through a consciousness of the comparative method as the method of scientific analysis. Specifically three points are made: (1) That the social sciences must be both transhistorical and cross-cultural in orientation and that history is essential to sociological generalizations. (2) That quantification, no matter how sophisticated the techniqu…
Monopolism, Pluralism, Acceptance, and Rejection
Weber or Troeltsch
The historical development of church-sect theory is analyzed, and two major points are made. First, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of church-sect in its original use by Max Weber and, in particular, in the context of his treatment of the ideal type. Second, since the work of Ernst Troeltsch, the use of church-sect in the sociology of religion has been beset by the Troeltschian syndrome-a misdirected focusing upon Troeltsch's use…
Quo Vadis
The Comparative Method and the Special Vocation of the Sociology of Religion
This essay argues that the long-run scientific goals of understanding and prediction can be achieved only through a consciousness of the comparative method as the method of scientific analysis. Specifically three points are made: (1) That the social sciences must be both transhistorical and cross-cultural in orientation and that history is essential to sociological generalizations. (2) That quantification, no matter how sophisticated the techniqu…
Thorns on the Tudor Rose
Into Denominationalism
Journal Article Into Denominationalism: The Anglican Metamorphosis, by William H. Swatos, Jr. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Monograph Series Number 2, 1979, viv + 114 pp. $5.50. (Box U-68A, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268) Get access Theodore Steeman, O.F.M. Theodore Steeman, O.F.M. Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 41, Issue 4, Winter 1…
Into Denominationalism
Into Denominationalism
American Denominational Organization
The Disenchantment of Charisma
This essay addresses the question of whether and how it is possible to bring about major changes in the ways in which we order our lives in rationalized bureaucratic society. Genuine charisma—which Max Weber termed "the specifically creative revolutionary force in history"—is dependent upon social enchantment. In modern rationalized and disenchanted social systems charismatic revolution seems to be an impossibility. These correlative assertions a…
Church-Sect and Cult
The concept cult is discussed in light of recent attempts to relate it to church-sect theory. In a quest for a theoretically consistent and fruitful sociology of religious movements, the asceticism-mysticism continuum, rather than church-sect, is more appropriate to analyses of the origins of new religious groups. Cult-order is urged as a better typological framework than church-sect-denomination for conceptualizing formative organizational proce…
Into Denominationalism
Beyond Denominationalism
Le phenomene des aux Etats-Unis, sa signification socio-culturelle, le declin apparent du type de religiosite qu'il suppose dans la societe contemporaine et l'emergence d'Eglises denominationnelles. Avec le passage de la societe rurale a la societe urbaine, les denominations traditionnelles, en tant qu'organisations religieuses en conformite avec leur environnement socio-culturel, se sont developpees en vastes entreprises supra locales a but non …
Secularization
Journal Article Secularization: A Multi-Dimensional Concept, by Karel Dobbelaere. London: Sage Publications, 1981, 213 pp. $17.00. (Current Sociology, vol. 29, no. 2) Get access William H. Swatos, Jr. William H. Swatos, Jr. St. Mark's Episcopal Churchy Silvis, Illinois and University of Iceland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 2, Summer 1982, Pages 184–185, https://do…
Sects and Success
Journal Article Sects and Success: Missverstehen in Mt. Airy Get access William H. Swatos, Jr. William H. Swatos, Jr. St. Mark's Episcopal ChurchSilvis, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 4, Winter 1982, Pages 375–379, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710834 Published: 01 December 1982
The Sciences and Theology in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article The Sciences and Theology in the Twentieth Century, ed. by A.R. Peacocke. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981, xviii. + 309 pp. $25.00 Get access William H. Swatos, Jr. William H. Swatos, Jr. St. Mark's Episcopal ChurchSilvis, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 3, Fall 1982, Pages 276–277, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711264 Publish…
The Power of Prayer
The Faith of the Fathers
The early development of American sociology is often discussed in the context of late nineteenth-century Protestantism, with the implication that in these years sociology was a part of this organizational-institutional nexus. This essay argues that it is more accurate to interpret this aspect of sociology's history as related to general trends in American religion as a socio-cultural system, but distinct from any specific program within the Prote…
Enchantment and Disenchantment in Modernity
This essay assesses the religion-and-society problematic in modernity in light of the processes of pluralization and institutional differentiation that occur as societies become increasingly integrated into the world-system. Traditional categories for understanding religion are based upon models that no longer fit actual circumstances, if ever they did. In particular, the mystical-magical dimensions of religion—heretofore largely excluded as posi…
In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism
Journal Article In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism: An Essay on Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis, by Gordon Marshall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982, 236 pp. $13.00 Get access William H. Swatos, Jr. William H. Swatos, Jr. St. Mark's Episcopal ChurchSilvis, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 44, Issue 3, Fall 1983, Pages 263–264, https://doi.org/10.2307/3…
Southern Anglicanism
When Fathers Ruled
Journal Article When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe, by Steven Ozment. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press, 1983, xii + 239 pp. with 11 plates. $17.50 Get access William H. Swatos, Jr. William H. Swatos, Jr. St. Mark's Episcopal ChurchSilvis, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 45, Issue 4, Winter 1984, Pages 397–398, https://doi.org/10.23…
Church and Social Change
The Relevance of Religion
in Iceland provides the focus for a historical-comparative and participant observation study of the supposed of religion in secular society. judgment of irrelevance appears to depend largely on a peculiar definitional construct, formed with little immediate connection to the experience of the participants in the system. A situational definition grounded in the participants' understandings of their own actions produces a rather different assessmen…
Faith of the Fathers
Journal Article Faith of the Fathers: Science, Religion, and Reform in the Development of Early American Sociology, by William H. Swatos, Jr. Bristol, Indiana: Windham Hall Press, 1984, vi+102 pp. $6.95 Get access Roger Haight, S.J. Roger Haight, S.J. Regis College, Toronto School of Theology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 46, Issue 4, Winter 1985, Pages 476–477, https://doi.…
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