N J Demerath
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3678 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | N J Demerath |
| NOMBRES | N J |
| APELLIDO | Demerath |
| FIRMA | DEMERATH N J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 80 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 292 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1942 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Religion and Inequality in America
Despite the growing quantity and quality of research connecting religion to inequality, no single volume to date brings together key figures to discuss various components of this process. This volume aims to fill this gap with contributions from top scholars in the fields of religion and sociology. The essays in this volume provide important new details about how and why religion and inequality are related by focusing on new indicators of inequal…
Peeking through Jefferson’s Relocated Wall
This article provides a sociological account of the First Amendment's religious clauses' past, present, and future. It discusses the First Amendment religion clause in global perspective; where it stands in comparison with similar documents and practices in other countries; what it intended; how it has been implemented; and where it is heading. The article also discusses American church–state relations under four rubrics: the issues of establishm…
Secularization and Sacralization Deconstructed and Reconstructed
Dear President Bush
This paper is an exercise in the applied sociology of religion. And yet it is not quite what the phrase implies. It does not offer advice to help religious organizations increase their members or finetune their services, nor is it quite in the spirit of Kemal Attaturk's reliance on Emile Durkheim's work in secularizing his nation and pushing through some of the most thorough and most enduring cultural changes of any country in the 20th century. I…
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Religion, Politics, and the State, at Home and Abroad Get access N.J. Demerath, III N.J. Demerath, III University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 68, Issue 1, Spring 2007, Pages 1–3, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/68.1.1 Published: 01 March 2007
Religion, Politics, and the State
While religion can be a source of legitimacy for politicians, it can turn into a restraint in the process of state administration. Four possible situations emerge from the intersection of religion and the state: religious politics with a religious state, secular politics in a secular state, secular politics with a religious state, and religious politics in a secular state. A religious state with religious politicsis often the most violent and sho…
The Battle Over a U.S. Culture War
The concept of a "culture war" has occasioned almost as much conflict among scholars as it depicts within societies. Although it should be more of a variable than an absolute, this paper argues that the phrase over-reaches as a description of the U.S. during and since the 2004 Presidential election. Not only does the U.S. fail to fulfill a criterion of "widespread polarization," but it also falls mercifully short of the kind of "concerted violenc…
The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India
Journal Article The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India, by Paul R. Brass. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2003, xix + 476 pp., $50.00 (cloth) Get access N. J. Demerath, III N. J. Demerath, III University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 3, Fall 2004, Pages 304–306, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712256 Published:…
Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent
In a world teeming with violence, oppression, and depravity, it is little wonder that religion should be seen as a solution. Whether as prayer, theology, or saintly inspiration, religion has been both a first and last hope in confronting social ills. But religion is also involved in more secular responses. As a major contributor to what has been termed “civil society,” it can make a social and political difference in two respects. First, at the m…
Progress and Cumulation in the Sociology of Religion
Mark Chaves: Introduction to the Symposium N.J. Demerath III: Diagnosing the Reverend Dr. Dumpty “After the Fall” Mary Jo Neitz: Eve, Lilith, and the Sociology of Religion: Comments on Zald Robert Wuthnow: Practice and Progress in the Study of Religion Mayer N. Zald: Where Are We in the Sociological Study of Religion? Continuing the Conversation
"Secularization" by Any Other Name
Dans ces deux articles, les AA. debattent de l'hypothese de la secularisation de la societe americaine face au nombre croissant de personnes sans religion. Il est question ici des recherches de Hout et Fischer de 2002 concernant les explications du declin des grandes organisations religieuses
Crossing the Gods
Crossing the Gods examines the sometimes antagonistic, sometimes cozy relationship between religion and politics in countries around the globe. Eminent sociologist of religion Jay Demerath traveled to Brazil, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, and Thailand to explore the history and current relationship of religion, politics, and the state in each country. In the first par…
The Rise of “Cultural Religion” in European Christianity
This article draws on a global, 15-nation comparative study of religion, politics, and the state. The three countries at issue here may seem more peripheral than central to Europe, but all represent important aspects of the late 20th-century European experience—whether the tension between religion and secularity in Poland, the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, or the final sigh of religious disestablishment in Sweden…
Sacred Companies
Journal Article Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations, edited by N. J. Demerath III, Peter Dobkin Hall, Terry Schmitt, and Rhys H. Williams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 410 pp. $55.00 Get access Beau Weston Beau Weston Centre College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 234–235, https…
The Varieties of Sacred Experience
This paper contends that the social scientific study of religion has long labored under a chafing constraint and a misleading premise. It suggests that our primary focus should be on the sacred, and that religion is just one among many possible sources of the sacred. Defining religion 'substantively' but the sacred 'functionally' helps toresolve a long-standing tension in the field. Broadened conceptions of the sacred and of 'sacralization' help …
Sociology and the World's Religions
Sacred Companies
Religion is intrinsically social, and hence irretrievably organizational. Religion and organizations have separately been the objects of frequent study but their confluence has rarely been considered. This interdisciplinary collection of mostly unpublished papers is the first volume to tackle this neglected subject. The result of a three-year research project at Yale sponsored by the Lilly Endowment, the volume looks at such topics as the histori…
Excepting Exceptionalism
American religion is a major component of the triumphal exceptionalism that has long set the United States apart from other nations. Our frequent label as the world's most religious advanced nation has given pride to many citizens, if not to all. This article offers a reassessment of the claim in the context of a larger cross-national investigation of religion, politics, and the state in some 14 countries around the globe. With this as a comparat…
Books in review
Who now debates functionalism? fromsystem, change and conflict to “culture, choice, and praxis”
Postmortemism for Postmodernism
Cultural Victory and Organizational Defeat in the Paradoxical Decline of Liberal Protestantism
N. J. Demerath III, Cultural Victory and Organizational Defeat in the Paradoxical Decline of Liberal Protestantism, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp. 458-469
Rational Paradigms, A-Rational Religion, and the Debate over Secularization
La theorie du choix rationnel a provoque un debat entre les sociologues de la religion. L'A. s'attache aux aspects economiques du choix rationnel, puis aux autres. Ensuite, il utilise le debat sur la secularisation comme point de reference critique. Parce que la secularisation peut etre envisagee comme precurseur et condition necessaire d'une nouvelle etape de sacralisation, les tenants de la theorie du choix rationnel semblent avoir raison. En p…
The Moth and the Flame
This essay describes a major shift that occurred in religion's perceived political prominence, especially following key events in 1979. It then describes a current project to investigate religion, politics, and the state in more than a dozen countries around the globe. But the article principally focuses on a somewhat serendipitous aspect of the project; namely, ways in which standard concepts in American sociology of religion take different mean…
A Bridging of Faiths
The Rise of “Cultural Religion” in European Christianity
This article draws on a global, 15-nation comparative study of religion, politics, and the state. The three countries at issue here may seem more peripheral than central to Europe, but all represent important aspects of the late 20th-century European experience—whether the tension between religion and secularity in Poland, the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, or the final sigh of religious disestablishment in Sweden…
Religion and Political Process in an American City
Two themes in the political culture of the United States relate the nation's politics and government to First is the sense of sacredness connected to the polity that is often termed civil religion. Second is the institutional separation of church and state, often turned into a normative separate spheres argument distancing religion from political activity. That these seemingly contradictory themes coexist is evidence for the interpretive openness…
The Persistence of Political Attitudes Among 1960s Civil Rights Activists
Journal Article THE PERSISTENCE OF POLITICAL ATTITUDES AMONG 1960s CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS Get access GERALD MARWELL, GERALD MARWELL Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL T. AIKEN, MICHAEL T. AIKEN Professor of Sociology and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Social class in American protestantism
The Varieties of Sacred Experience
This paper contends that the social scientific study of religion has long labored under a chafing constraint and a misleading premise. It suggests that our primary focus should be on the sacred, and that religion is just one among many possible sources of the sacred. Defining religion 'substantively' but the sacred 'functionally' helps toresolve a long-standing tension in the field. Broadened conceptions of the sacred and of 'sacralization' help …
Civil Religion in an Uncivil Society
Civil religion denotes a religion of the nation, a nonsectarian faith that has as its sacred symbols those of the polity and national history. Recent scholars have portrayed it as a cohesive force, a common canopy of values that helps foster social and cultural integration, but this perspective may now be at odds with a complex reality. Ours is an increasingly differentiated society with the rise of group politics and subcultures. The forms of ci…
"Secularization" by Any Other Name
Dans ces deux articles, les AA. debattent de l'hypothese de la secularisation de la societe americaine face au nombre croissant de personnes sans religion. Il est question ici des recherches de Hout et Fischer de 2002 concernant les explications du declin des grandes organisations religieuses
Rational Paradigms, A-Rational Religion, and the Debate over Secularization
La theorie du choix rationnel a provoque un debat entre les sociologues de la religion. L'A. s'attache aux aspects economiques du choix rationnel, puis aux autres. Ensuite, il utilise le debat sur la secularisation comme point de reference critique. Parce que la secularisation peut etre envisagee comme precurseur et condition necessaire d'une nouvelle etape de sacralisation, les tenants de la theorie du choix rationnel semblent avoir raison. En p…
System, Change, and Conflict
Through a Double-Crossed Eye
Religion-Recent Strands in Research
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
Cultural Victory and Organizational Defeat in the Paradoxical Decline of Liberal Protestantism
N. J. Demerath III, Cultural Victory and Organizational Defeat in the Paradoxical Decline of Liberal Protestantism, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp. 458-469
Secularization in a Community Context
This paper derives from a multi-method study of religion and politics in a mid-sized northeastern city. Whereas most assessments of secularization are oriented either to the individual or to broad societal trends, this one concerns the dynamics of religion and politics at the community level. After presenting a condensed ethnography, the article explores its theoretical implications with reference to the larger literature on secularization. As ot…
The Battle Over a U.S. Culture War
The concept of a "culture war" has occasioned almost as much conflict among scholars as it depicts within societies. Although it should be more of a variable than an absolute, this paper argues that the phrase over-reaches as a description of the U.S. during and since the 2004 Presidential election. Not only does the U.S. fail to fulfill a criterion of "widespread polarization," but it also falls mercifully short of the kind of "concerted violenc…
System, Change and Conflict
On Spitting Against the Wind
This is an analysis of a small-town Wisconsin free-thought movement and its response to organizational dilemmas arising out of its irreligion. More particularly, it is an analysis of organization demise. The study isolates a number of variables which help to account for the movemet's history. Several relate to the community context such as vertical and horizontal differentiation. Others concern characteristics of the organization itself, includin…
Excepting Exceptionalism
American religion is a major component of the triumphal exceptionalism that has long set the United States apart from other nations. Our frequent label as the world's most religious advanced nation has given pride to many citizens, if not to all. This article offers a reassessment of the claim in the context of a larger cross-national investigation of religion, politics, and the state in some 14 countries around the globe. With this as a comparat…
Postmortemism for Postmodernism
Religion in Social Context
Priest and People
Initiating and Maintaining Research Relations in a Military Organization 1
Adolescent Status Demands and the Student Experiences of Twenty Schizophrenics
Feelings of social rejection and inferiority characterized the subjects' prepsychotic student experiences. These feelings were linked with a characteristic inability to associate with fellow students intimately and informally, and with the acceptance of adult norms of scholarly excellence, moral perfection, and submissiveness. Not without significance for a theory of schizophrenia, these cases support the hypothesis that the individual who succes…
Who now debates functionalism? fromsystem, change and conflict to “culture, choice, and praxis”
The Moth and the Flame
This essay describes a major shift that occurred in religion's perceived political prominence, especially following key events in 1979. It then describes a current project to investigate religion, politics, and the state in more than a dozen countries around the globe. But the article principally focuses on a somewhat serendipitous aspect of the project; namely, ways in which standard concepts in American sociology of religion take different mean…
Religion and power in the american experience
Social Solidarity and the Mental Hospital
Journal Article Social Solidarity and the Mental Hospital Get access N. J. Demerath N. J. Demerath H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 21, Issue 1, October 1942, Pages 66–86, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570433 Published: 01 October 1942
Adolescent Status Demands and the Student Experiences of Twenty Schizophrenics
Feelings of social rejection and inferiority characterized the subjects' prepsychotic student experiences. These feelings were linked with a characteristic inability to associate with fellow students intimately and informally, and with the acceptance of adult norms of scholarly excellence, moral perfection, and submissiveness. Not without significance for a theory of schizophrenia, these cases support the hypothesis that the individual who succes…
Ecology, Framework for City Planning
Journal Article Ecology, Framework for City Planning Get access N. J. Demerath N. J. Demerath University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 26, Issue 1, October 1947, Pages 62–67, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572606 Published: 01 October 1947
Initiating and Maintaining Research Relations in a Military Organization 1
Some Experiences with the Group Interview
Journal Article Some Experiences with the Group Interview Get access James D. Thompson, James D. Thompson University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar N. J. Demerath N. J. Demerath University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 31, Issue 2, December 1952, Pages 148–154, https://doi.org/10.2307/2573399 Published: 01…
Briefer Comment
Briefer Comment Get access Richard L. Simpson, Richard L. Simpson Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ida Harper Simpson, Ida Harper Simpson Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Howard S. Gall, Howard S. Gall University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar L. O. …
Community in Disaster. William H. Form , Sigmund Nosow
Patients, Physicians and Illness
Public Health and Some Major Changes of Our Time
Public Health and Some Major Changes of Our Time N. J. Demerath CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.51.11.1641 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Religion and Career
Social class in American protestantism
Priest and People
Social Class in American Protestantism
Journal Article Social Class in American Protestantism. By N. J. Demerath III. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1965. Pp. xxvi, 228. $2.75 (paper) Get access Allen Jackson Allen Jackson Morningside College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 26, Issue 4, Winter 1965, Pages 227–230, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709924 Published: 01 December 1965
Synecdoche and Structural-Functionalism
Both critics and defenders tend to regard structural-functionalism as a single school with a distinct identity and a common strategy. This paper argues that the illusion of unity has obfuscated the debate. It suggests that structural-functionalism harbors at least two quite different approaches. While both are “legitimate,” they lead to different conclusions and different vulnerabilities. Thus, it matters whether one is primarily concerned with t…
Synecdoche and Structural-Functionalism
On Spitting Against the Wind
This is an analysis of a small-town Wisconsin free-thought movement and its response to organizational dilemmas arising out of its irreligion. More particularly, it is an analysis of organization demise. The study isolates a number of variables which help to account for the movemet's history. Several relate to the community context such as vertical and horizontal differentiation. Others concern characteristics of the organization itself, includin…
In a Sow's Ear
The politics of tokenism in Mississippi’s delta
Son of Sow's Ear
System, Change, and Conflict
System, Change and Conflict
Religion in Social Context
Irreligion, A-Religion, and the Rise of the Religion-Less Church
Religion in Social Context
Religion in Social Context
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