William C Shepherd
Biographic Data
| ID | 274836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William C Shepherd |
| GIVEN NAMES | William C |
| FAMILY NAME | Shepherd |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPHERD W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Montana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cults, Culture and the Law
Journal Article Cults, Culture and the Law: Perspectives on New Religious Movements., edited by Thomas Robbins, William C. Shepherd and James McBride. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985, 238 pp. No price given Get access James A. Beckford James A. Beckford University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 179–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711466…
The Prosecutor's Reach
The Prosecutor's Reach: Legal Issues Stemming from the New Religious Movements William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd (Ph.D, Yale) is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Montana. During the academic year 1981–82 he was National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of New Religious Movements in Berkeley, completing The Prosecutor's Reach: The American Constitution and the Ne…
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. By Christopher Lasch. New York: W. W. Norton, 1980. xviII+268 pages. $11.95. ISBN 0-393-01177-1. William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2, June 1980, Pages 311–312, https://doi.org/10.…
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access Understanding the New Religions. Ed. by Jacob Needleman and George Baker. NewYork: Seabury, 1980. vii+314 pages. $8.95. ISBN 0-8164-2188-9. William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2, June 1980, Pages 291–292, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLVIII.2.291 Published: 0…
Cultural Relativism, Physical Anthropology, and Religion
The most powerful way to move beyond the intellectual bankruptcy contributed to the social scientific study of religion by cultural relativism is to defend a version of innate ideas embedded in a biogenetic account of how religion and culture evolved in tandem with physical changes in the hominid genotype going back at least to australopithecine adjustments during the late Pleistocene. Modern man's phylogenetic inheritance provides one key to exp…
Psychoanalysis and Religion
Journal Article Psychoanalysis and Religion: A Bibliography by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. Norward, PA: Norward Editions, 1978, vii + 182 pp. $15.00 Get access William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 2, Summer 1979, Pages 179–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709796 Published: 01 July 1979
Conversion and Adhesion
Psychology of Religion
PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION Get access Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology from Adler to Laing. By Russell Jacoby. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975. 191 pages. $3.95 ISBN 0-8070-2964-5. William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVI, Issue 1, March 1978, Pages 110-b–111, https://doi.org/10.1093/ja…
The New Religions and the Religion of the Republic
In an effort to gain perspective on the newly emerging cultic movements in America, I place them against the historical backdrop of civil religious development Civil religion is itself set against the backdrop of secularization in America, and that process is distinguished from the simpler course of secularization by abandonment in Western Europe. I then expand the theme, found largely in the work of Sidney Mead, of a profound tension in American…
Sociology of Religion
Journal Article SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION Get access A Sociology of Belief. By JAMES T. BORHEK and RICHARDS F. CURTIS. New York: John Wiley and Sons (A Wiley-Interscience Publication), 1975. xiv+201 pages. $8.95. ISBN 0-471-08895-1. WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLV, Issue 1, March 1977, Pages 11…
Sociology of Religion
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION Get access A Sociology of Religion By MICHAEL HILL. New York: Basic Books, 1973. 285 pages. $10.00 L C No. 72-96918 WILLIAM C SHEPHERD WILLIAM C SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIV, Issue 4, December 1976, Pages 754-a–754, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLIV.4.754-a Published: 01 December 1976
Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY Get access Reason and Commitment By ROGER TRIGG. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973. 172 pages $10.00 L.C. No. 72-89806. WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, March 1976, Pages 189-a–189, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLIV.1.189-a Published: 01 March 1976
Malinowski's Magic
The author uses the technique of substruction in order to explicate the conceptualizations about magic, science, and religion which, over more than 50 years, have been brought forward by anthropologists like Malinowski, Nadel, and Goody. The outcome is several typologies which encompass also the important linguistic notion of performative acts originated by J. L. Austin. By means of these typologies it is possible to relate to each other in a log…
Symbolical consciousness
Anthropological Studies
Journal Article ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES Get access The Interpretation of Cultures. By CLIFFORD GEERTZ. New York: Basic Books, 1973. ix+470 pages, index. $15.00. L.C. No. 73-81196. WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIII, Issue 3, September 1975, Pages 635-a–635, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLI…
Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY Get access Belief, Language, and Experience By RODNEY NEEDHAMChicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972. xvii+269 pages $10.00. L C No 72–87712 WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIII, Issue 4, December 1975, Pages 822-a–822, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLIII.4.822-a Published: 01 D…
Robert Bellah's Sociology of Religion
Philosophy of Religion
Journal Article PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Get access Fellow Teachers. By PHILIP RIEFF. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. 243. pages. $6.95. L.C. No. 72-12103. WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLII, Issue 3, September 1974, Pages 570–572, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLII.3.570 Published: 01 September…
On the Concept of “Being Wrong” Religiously
On the Concept of “Being Wrong” Religiously Get access WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPPHERD (Ph.D., Yale) is a member of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Montana and is Book Review Editor of JAAR. His most recent articles have appeared in Sociological Inquiry and in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of th…
Sociology of Religion
Journal Article SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION Get access Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. By ROBERT S. ELLWOOD, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1972 xvi+334 pages. $8.95. Also available in paperback, $3.95. WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLI, Issue 4, December 1973, Pages 621–622, ht…
Counter Cultural Religiosity A Reply to Bellah, Baum, and Lidz
Religion and the Social Sciences
I offer an account of Weston La Barre's The Ghost Dance to indicate the continuing vitality of a Freudian ideological attack on religious beliefs and behavior. A contemporary group of social scientists, chiefly featuring Bellah, Geertz,and Luckmann, could possibly meet La Barre's sociopsychiatric challenge to religion. I examine their reliance on functional definitions of religion as a conciliatory measure designed to overcome the conflict betwee…
Religion and the Counter Culture-A New Religiosity
Hegel as a Theologian
Confronted with the conventional genre of Hegelian interpretation, the following pages take on a rather unusual cast, for their concern is exclusively theological. Furthermore, I make the large assumption in this essay that the customary theological critique of Hegel, which flagellates him for the Aujhebung of theology into philosophy, is both inadequate and even crude, however much the principal motivation of such a critique may be quite justifi…
Religion and the Counter Culture-A New Religiosity
Malinowski's Magic
The author uses the technique of substruction in order to explicate the conceptualizations about magic, science, and religion which, over more than 50 years, have been brought forward by anthropologists like Malinowski, Nadel, and Goody. The outcome is several typologies which encompass also the important linguistic notion of performative acts originated by J. L. Austin. By means of these typologies it is possible to relate to each other in a log…
Religion and the Social Sciences
I offer an account of Weston La Barre's The Ghost Dance to indicate the continuing vitality of a Freudian ideological attack on religious beliefs and behavior. A contemporary group of social scientists, chiefly featuring Bellah, Geertz,and Luckmann, could possibly meet La Barre's sociopsychiatric challenge to religion. I examine their reliance on functional definitions of religion as a conciliatory measure designed to overcome the conflict betwee…
Robert Bellah's Sociology of Religion
Hegel as a Theologian
Confronted with the conventional genre of Hegelian interpretation, the following pages take on a rather unusual cast, for their concern is exclusively theological. Furthermore, I make the large assumption in this essay that the customary theological critique of Hegel, which flagellates him for the Aujhebung of theology into philosophy, is both inadequate and even crude, however much the principal motivation of such a critique may be quite justifi…
Counter Cultural Religiosity A Reply to Bellah, Baum, and Lidz
Religion and the Social Sciences
I offer an account of Weston La Barre's The Ghost Dance to indicate the continuing vitality of a Freudian ideological attack on religious beliefs and behavior. A contemporary group of social scientists, chiefly featuring Bellah, Geertz,and Luckmann, could possibly meet La Barre's sociopsychiatric challenge to religion. I examine their reliance on functional definitions of religion as a conciliatory measure designed to overcome the conflict betwee…
Religion and the Counter Culture-A New Religiosity
Sociology of Religion
Journal Article SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION Get access Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. By ROBERT S. ELLWOOD, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1972 xvi+334 pages. $8.95. Also available in paperback, $3.95. WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLI, Issue 4, December 1973, Pages 621–622, ht…
Philosophy of Religion
Journal Article PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Get access Fellow Teachers. By PHILIP RIEFF. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. 243. pages. $6.95. L.C. No. 72-12103. WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLII, Issue 3, September 1974, Pages 570–572, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLII.3.570 Published: 01 September…
On the Concept of “Being Wrong” Religiously
On the Concept of “Being Wrong” Religiously Get access WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPPHERD (Ph.D., Yale) is a member of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Montana and is Book Review Editor of JAAR. His most recent articles have appeared in Sociological Inquiry and in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of th…
Anthropological Studies
Journal Article ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES Get access The Interpretation of Cultures. By CLIFFORD GEERTZ. New York: Basic Books, 1973. ix+470 pages, index. $15.00. L.C. No. 73-81196. WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIII, Issue 3, September 1975, Pages 635-a–635, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLI…
Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY Get access Belief, Language, and Experience By RODNEY NEEDHAMChicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972. xvii+269 pages $10.00. L C No 72–87712 WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIII, Issue 4, December 1975, Pages 822-a–822, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLIII.4.822-a Published: 01 D…
Robert Bellah's Sociology of Religion
Sociology of Religion
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION Get access A Sociology of Religion By MICHAEL HILL. New York: Basic Books, 1973. 285 pages. $10.00 L C No. 72-96918 WILLIAM C SHEPHERD WILLIAM C SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIV, Issue 4, December 1976, Pages 754-a–754, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLIV.4.754-a Published: 01 December 1976
Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY Get access Reason and Commitment By ROGER TRIGG. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973. 172 pages $10.00 L.C. No. 72-89806. WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, March 1976, Pages 189-a–189, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLIV.1.189-a Published: 01 March 1976
Malinowski's Magic
The author uses the technique of substruction in order to explicate the conceptualizations about magic, science, and religion which, over more than 50 years, have been brought forward by anthropologists like Malinowski, Nadel, and Goody. The outcome is several typologies which encompass also the important linguistic notion of performative acts originated by J. L. Austin. By means of these typologies it is possible to relate to each other in a log…
Symbolical consciousness
Sociology of Religion
Journal Article SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION Get access A Sociology of Belief. By JAMES T. BORHEK and RICHARDS F. CURTIS. New York: John Wiley and Sons (A Wiley-Interscience Publication), 1975. xiv+201 pages. $8.95. ISBN 0-471-08895-1. WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLV, Issue 1, March 1977, Pages 11…
Psychology of Religion
PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION Get access Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology from Adler to Laing. By Russell Jacoby. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975. 191 pages. $3.95 ISBN 0-8070-2964-5. William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVI, Issue 1, March 1978, Pages 110-b–111, https://doi.org/10.1093/ja…
The New Religions and the Religion of the Republic
In an effort to gain perspective on the newly emerging cultic movements in America, I place them against the historical backdrop of civil religious development Civil religion is itself set against the backdrop of secularization in America, and that process is distinguished from the simpler course of secularization by abandonment in Western Europe. I then expand the theme, found largely in the work of Sidney Mead, of a profound tension in American…
Psychoanalysis and Religion
Journal Article Psychoanalysis and Religion: A Bibliography by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. Norward, PA: Norward Editions, 1978, vii + 182 pp. $15.00 Get access William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 2, Summer 1979, Pages 179–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709796 Published: 01 July 1979
Conversion and Adhesion
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. By Christopher Lasch. New York: W. W. Norton, 1980. xviII+268 pages. $11.95. ISBN 0-393-01177-1. William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2, June 1980, Pages 311–312, https://doi.org/10.…
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access Understanding the New Religions. Ed. by Jacob Needleman and George Baker. NewYork: Seabury, 1980. vii+314 pages. $8.95. ISBN 0-8164-2188-9. William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd University of Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2, June 1980, Pages 291–292, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLVIII.2.291 Published: 0…
Cultural Relativism, Physical Anthropology, and Religion
The most powerful way to move beyond the intellectual bankruptcy contributed to the social scientific study of religion by cultural relativism is to defend a version of innate ideas embedded in a biogenetic account of how religion and culture evolved in tandem with physical changes in the hominid genotype going back at least to australopithecine adjustments during the late Pleistocene. Modern man's phylogenetic inheritance provides one key to exp…
The Prosecutor's Reach
The Prosecutor's Reach: Legal Issues Stemming from the New Religious Movements William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd William C. Shepherd (Ph.D, Yale) is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Montana. During the academic year 1981–82 he was National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of New Religious Movements in Berkeley, completing The Prosecutor's Reach: The American Constitution and the Ne…
Cults, Culture and the Law
Journal Article Cults, Culture and the Law: Perspectives on New Religious Movements., edited by Thomas Robbins, William C. Shepherd and James McBride. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985, 238 pp. No price given Get access James A. Beckford James A. Beckford University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 179–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711466…
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