Segerstedt on We-Feeling

The article focuses on 'we-feeling' - a concept which blends aesthetic and sociological elements - as an index to a prime function of religious institutions. Employing Torgny T. Segcrstedt's suggestions regarding 'we- feeling,' it assesses and refines the proposals of a recent study, To Comfort and to Challenge, by American authors Glock, Ringer, and Babbie. From both standpoints it contends that 'we-feeling' is an indispensable charac teristic of religion. It argues that groups retain a religious identity to the measure that they sustain 'we-feeling' in the other functions in which they might also be engaged

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