The Politics of Heresy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2210182
AutoresL R Kurtz (0000-0002-5999-5239, autor correspondente)
Ano1983
Volume88
Fascículo6
Páginas1085-1115
Data de publicação1983-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/227796
OpenAlexW2040007476
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas29
Referências citadas18

Heresy ad orthodoxy, it is argued here, are two aspects of the social process within which belief systems are defined and articulated. A number of characteristics of heresy are outlined: it is both near and remote at the same time, and the heretic is a deviant insider. Heresy has social origins but in turn influences social arrangements. The heresy hunt, in which heresy is labeled and heretics are suppressed, serves as an anxiety-relieving ritual for institutional elites and facilitates their dominance within the institution. A case study of heresy, the "modernist controversy" in Roman Catholicism, is examined as one of the most important events in early modern culture and an important aspect of the conflict between science and religion

Heresy · Insider · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory