Frederick Bird
Biographic Data
| ID | 253000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick Bird |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick |
| FAMILY NAME | Bird |
| SIGNATURE | BIRD F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 687 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Generative Power of Hope: Anticipating Possibilities in Times of Crises
Generative Power of Hope: Anticipating Possibilities in Times of Crises
Moral Muteness
What is moral muteness? People are morally mute if they fail forthrightly to voice moral concern regarding issues about which they possess moral convictions. Hypocrites act deceptively, claiming moral convictions that they do not in fact hold. People who are morally mute are deceptive as well, but in a quite different way, because they fail to disclose and communicate overtly moral convictions that they in fact hold.
Democracy and the Political in the Thought of Max Weber, Terry Maley, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, pp. 292
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Voices From the Voluntary Sector: Perspectives on Leadership Challenges
The Ethical Responsibilities of Businesses in Developing Areas
International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World
We live in a globally interconnected but economically divided world where internationally linked businesses can play a significant role in helping and/or obstructing the development of impoverished countries. Through a series of case studies, this volume examines what can be learned, both positively and critically, from the experiences of selected internationally connected firms in Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Vietnam, Guyana, and the Nunavik region o…
Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions
From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and compara…
Therapy, Charisma and Social Control in the Rajneesh Movement
Throughout the history of an NRM remarkable for its social experiments and its ritual, sexual, and economic innovations, therapy has played a prominent role. On the basis of data collected through interviews and participation in Rajneesh therapy groups, it is postulated that, during the Rajneeshpuram phase, the function of therapy was to forge new identities through the ritual breaking of taboos, to educate new members in the alternative sexual e…
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: Volume 1 Monty L. Lynn and David O. Moberg, editors Greenwich, CT: Jai Press, 1989. x + 260 p
The Blessings of Pilgrimage
How Do Religions Affect Moralities? A Comparative Analysis
Comment l'engagement religieux affecte-t-il la conduite morale? L'A. examine d'abord cette question d'une maniere generale et principielle (causalite morale, legitimation de l'autorite morale, dimension societale de la moralite, responsabilite morale individuelle). Il examine ensuite les memes questions dans differents contextes religieux et montre en quoi la soteriologie propre a chaque systeme religieux accentue l'un ou l'autre aspect de la rel…
Theories of justice in new religious and parareligious movements
The Making of a Moonie: Brainwashing or Choice
Journal Article The Making of a Moonie: Brainwashing or Choice? by Eileen Barker. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd., ix+305 pp. $34.35 Get access Frederick Bird Frederick Bird Concordia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 46, Issue 4, Winter 1985, Pages 466–467, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711163 Published: 01 December 1985
The Economic Strategies of New Religious Movements
This article analyzes the economic strategies of new religious and para-religious movements by comparing them with the economic strategies of traditional religious associations. The article is based on research of several dozen such movements in the Montreal area. It is argued that the economic strategies of religious groups, old and new, closely reflect and influence the overall social policies of these groups, especially their attitudes towards…
Max Weber's perspectives on religious evolution
The Cult Experience: Responding to the New Religious Pluralism
Mysticism and Religion
Journal Article Mysticism and Religion, by Robert S. Ellwood, Jr. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc. 1980, xiii + 194 pp. $10.95 Get access Frederick Bird Frederick Bird Concordia UniversityMontreal Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 2, Summer 1982, Pages 183–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710803 Published: 01 July 1982
Participation Rates in New Religious and Para-Religious Movements
This article analyzes participation rates in new religious and para-religious movements, as indicated by surveys administered in Montreal in 1975 and 1980. When these movements are broadly defined to include various charismatic and semi-religious therapy and martial arts groups, then the survey data indicate both a comparative high rate of participation but also a remarkably high rate for dropping out of these movements. The average participant a…
The nature and function of ritual forms: A sociological discussion
The Pursuit of Innocence: New Religious Movements and Moral Accountability
Journal Article The Pursuit of Innocence: New Religious Movements and Moral Accountability Get access Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 1979, Pages 335–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709962 Published: 01 December 1979
Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions
From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and compara…
Participation Rates in New Religious and Para-Religious Movements
This article analyzes participation rates in new religious and para-religious movements, as indicated by surveys administered in Montreal in 1975 and 1980. When these movements are broadly defined to include various charismatic and semi-religious therapy and martial arts groups, then the survey data indicate both a comparative high rate of participation but also a remarkably high rate for dropping out of these movements. The average participant a…
The Pursuit of Innocence: New Religious Movements and Moral Accountability
Journal Article The Pursuit of Innocence: New Religious Movements and Moral Accountability Get access Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 1979, Pages 335–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709962 Published: 01 December 1979
Therapy, Charisma and Social Control in the Rajneesh Movement
Throughout the history of an NRM remarkable for its social experiments and its ritual, sexual, and economic innovations, therapy has played a prominent role. On the basis of data collected through interviews and participation in Rajneesh therapy groups, it is postulated that, during the Rajneeshpuram phase, the function of therapy was to forge new identities through the ritual breaking of taboos, to educate new members in the alternative sexual e…
The Economic Strategies of New Religious Movements
This article analyzes the economic strategies of new religious and para-religious movements by comparing them with the economic strategies of traditional religious associations. The article is based on research of several dozen such movements in the Montreal area. It is argued that the economic strategies of religious groups, old and new, closely reflect and influence the overall social policies of these groups, especially their attitudes towards…
Max Weber's perspectives on religious evolution
Theories of justice in new religious and parareligious movements
The nature and function of ritual forms: A sociological discussion
The Pursuit of Innocence: New Religious Movements and Moral Accountability
Journal Article The Pursuit of Innocence: New Religious Movements and Moral Accountability Get access Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 1979, Pages 335–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709962 Published: 01 December 1979
The nature and function of ritual forms: A sociological discussion
Mysticism and Religion
Journal Article Mysticism and Religion, by Robert S. Ellwood, Jr. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc. 1980, xiii + 194 pp. $10.95 Get access Frederick Bird Frederick Bird Concordia UniversityMontreal Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 2, Summer 1982, Pages 183–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710803 Published: 01 July 1982
Participation Rates in New Religious and Para-Religious Movements
This article analyzes participation rates in new religious and para-religious movements, as indicated by surveys administered in Montreal in 1975 and 1980. When these movements are broadly defined to include various charismatic and semi-religious therapy and martial arts groups, then the survey data indicate both a comparative high rate of participation but also a remarkably high rate for dropping out of these movements. The average participant a…
Max Weber's perspectives on religious evolution
The Cult Experience: Responding to the New Religious Pluralism
The Making of a Moonie: Brainwashing or Choice
Journal Article The Making of a Moonie: Brainwashing or Choice? by Eileen Barker. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd., ix+305 pp. $34.35 Get access Frederick Bird Frederick Bird Concordia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 46, Issue 4, Winter 1985, Pages 466–467, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711163 Published: 01 December 1985
The Economic Strategies of New Religious Movements
This article analyzes the economic strategies of new religious and para-religious movements by comparing them with the economic strategies of traditional religious associations. The article is based on research of several dozen such movements in the Montreal area. It is argued that the economic strategies of religious groups, old and new, closely reflect and influence the overall social policies of these groups, especially their attitudes towards…
Theories of justice in new religious and parareligious movements
How Do Religions Affect Moralities? A Comparative Analysis
Comment l'engagement religieux affecte-t-il la conduite morale? L'A. examine d'abord cette question d'une maniere generale et principielle (causalite morale, legitimation de l'autorite morale, dimension societale de la moralite, responsabilite morale individuelle). Il examine ensuite les memes questions dans differents contextes religieux et montre en quoi la soteriologie propre a chaque systeme religieux accentue l'un ou l'autre aspect de la rel…
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: Volume 1 Monty L. Lynn and David O. Moberg, editors Greenwich, CT: Jai Press, 1989. x + 260 p
The Blessings of Pilgrimage
Therapy, Charisma and Social Control in the Rajneesh Movement
Throughout the history of an NRM remarkable for its social experiments and its ritual, sexual, and economic innovations, therapy has played a prominent role. On the basis of data collected through interviews and participation in Rajneesh therapy groups, it is postulated that, during the Rajneeshpuram phase, the function of therapy was to forge new identities through the ritual breaking of taboos, to educate new members in the alternative sexual e…
Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions
From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and compara…
International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World
We live in a globally interconnected but economically divided world where internationally linked businesses can play a significant role in helping and/or obstructing the development of impoverished countries. Through a series of case studies, this volume examines what can be learned, both positively and critically, from the experiences of selected internationally connected firms in Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Vietnam, Guyana, and the Nunavik region o…
The Ethical Responsibilities of Businesses in Developing Areas
Voices From the Voluntary Sector: Perspectives on Leadership Challenges
Democracy and the Political in the Thought of Max Weber, Terry Maley, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, pp. 292
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Moral Muteness
What is moral muteness? People are morally mute if they fail forthrightly to voice moral concern regarding issues about which they possess moral convictions. Hypocrites act deceptively, claiming moral convictions that they do not in fact hold. People who are morally mute are deceptive as well, but in a quite different way, because they fail to disclose and communicate overtly moral convictions that they in fact hold.
The Generative Power of Hope: Anticipating Possibilities in Times of Crises
Generative Power of Hope: Anticipating Possibilities in Times of Crises
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