Godsdienstsociologie

Although, in the past, religion had been of great interest to those engaged in general sociology, the sociology of religion had developed as a sub-field only in the second part of last century. In Western Europe, the emerging sub-field was first of all institution-bound and sociographic. Studies of normative integration gradually enlarged the field of study to include more than the ritualistic dimension of religion. The reference to general sociology was mostly at the level of using general sociological insights that facilitated the development of middle range theories. At the end of the sixties, a more general frame of reference emerged: secularization theory. Hencefort, sociologists studied religion to analyse the changes in Western societies. In Belgium, the focus was on secularization and pillarization; the study of a market of meaning systems; religious bricolage as an aspect of high modernity; comparative studies of different religions; and studies based on international surveys

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• The structural conditions of religious consciousness in modern societies

  Open Access•Thomas Luckmann•Japanese Journal of Religious…•1979

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• The invisible religion

  Thomas Luckmann•The invisible religion•1967

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