Religion in Sociological Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14680912 |
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| Authors | Fritz Dumermuth (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Publication date | 1968-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Religion in sociological perspective, Bryan R Wilson, 1982 |
| Venue | Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-1042 |
| Publisher | Nanzan University (PUBLISHER • JP) |
| DOI | 10.18874/jjrs.crj.9.1-2.1968.1-29 |
| OpenAlex | W2397418116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Like any other phenomenon of a society religion is a multidimensional phenomenon. Basically speaking, religion testifies to man's sensus numinis (Rudolf Otto, Joachim Wach) or whatever one may call it. It answers man's need and fascination for the mysterious and unfathomable of life and death. In addition, religion has other dimensions, social, psychological, philosophical etc., that call for corresponding approaches. The sociological approach takes into account a given social structure as the normative field (role-status) of interaction of actors (individuals or groups). If we define a perfect society as a society which is structurally fully integrated --which is not necessarily the only possible definition no existing society is perfect. In other words, any society exhibits unstructured situations or topoi which are outside the possibility of our making rational predictions with a sufficient degree of validity to serve as reliable guide lines for our lives. There exist always blanks or normative gaps, lacunae as well as discrepancies between institutionally legitimized expectations (in terms of the commonly shared value system of a given society)
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| Highly cited | No |
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