Paul Creelan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4224632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Creelan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Creelan |
| SIGNATURE | CREELAN P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Degradation of the Sacred: Approaches of Cooley and Goffman
Charles Horton Cooley and Erving Goffman both have provided similar, although usually overlooked, contributions to a sociology of religion and culture, namely, their analysis of the process whereby sacred representations of the self-transcending aspect of human nature frequently devolve into fragmented or distorted cultural symbols that increasingly provide legitimation for self-interest alone. Cooley's writings revolve around the dynamic whereby…
The Polish Peasant and the Pilgrim's Progress: Morality and Mythology in W. I. Thomas' Social Theory
Paul Creelan, Robert Granfield, The Polish Peasant and the Pilgrim's Progress: Morality and Mythology in W. I. Thomas' Social Theory, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Jun., 1986), pp. 162-179
Watson as Mythmaker: The Millenarian Sources of Watsonian Behaviorism
The founder of behaviorism, John B. Watson, grew up within a fundamentalist cultural milieu heavily influenced by the Protestant religious movement of dispensational millenarianism, a movement that began in the South and became widespread in the United States by the turn of the century. Watson's animal experiments for his doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago reveal a dense structure of millenarian symbolism, the scenes of animals an…
Vicissitudes of the sacred: Erving Goffman and the book of job
The Degradation of the Sacred: Approaches of Cooley and Goffman
Charles Horton Cooley and Erving Goffman both have provided similar, although usually overlooked, contributions to a sociology of religion and culture, namely, their analysis of the process whereby sacred representations of the self-transcending aspect of human nature frequently devolve into fragmented or distorted cultural symbols that increasingly provide legitimation for self-interest alone. Cooley's writings revolve around the dynamic whereby…
Vicissitudes of the sacred: Erving Goffman and the book of job
Vicissitudes of the sacred: Erving Goffman and the book of job
Watson as Mythmaker: The Millenarian Sources of Watsonian Behaviorism
The founder of behaviorism, John B. Watson, grew up within a fundamentalist cultural milieu heavily influenced by the Protestant religious movement of dispensational millenarianism, a movement that began in the South and became widespread in the United States by the turn of the century. Watson's animal experiments for his doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago reveal a dense structure of millenarian symbolism, the scenes of animals an…
The Polish Peasant and the Pilgrim's Progress: Morality and Mythology in W. I. Thomas' Social Theory
Paul Creelan, Robert Granfield, The Polish Peasant and the Pilgrim's Progress: Morality and Mythology in W. I. Thomas' Social Theory, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Jun., 1986), pp. 162-179
The Degradation of the Sacred: Approaches of Cooley and Goffman
Charles Horton Cooley and Erving Goffman both have provided similar, although usually overlooked, contributions to a sociology of religion and culture, namely, their analysis of the process whereby sacred representations of the self-transcending aspect of human nature frequently devolve into fragmented or distorted cultural symbols that increasingly provide legitimation for self-interest alone. Cooley's writings revolve around the dynamic whereby…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works)