Sociology of Religion and American Religious History
Retrospect and Prospect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2515083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David G Hackett (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 461 |
| Publication date | 1988-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1386944 |
| OpenAlex | W2312390992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article brings recent developments in historical sociology and social history to bear on methodological approaches to the sociology of American religious history. In the past two decades, historians have taken sociologists to task for superimposing such concepts as modernization or civil on American religious history. At the same time, social historians have accused intellectual historians of ignoring the religious experience of ordinary people. In both instances, scholars have been urged to ground their interpretations in social experience. This conclusion suggests new possibilities and pitfalls for sociologists of religion working at the juncture of social theory and American history. By employing the data of social history, social theorists may be able to offer new interpretations of American religious history. Conversely, the use of such social information as church, census, and tax lists may permit some revision of social theory. These possibilities are countered by new risks, however, as sociologists become amateur historians. This essay probes the kinds of questions sociologists and historians of American religion have asked and the ways in which theoretical ideas and historical evidence have been brought to bear upon one another to answer these questions. It then considers strategies for creating an historically grounded sociology of American religious history
Social science · Sociology · Sociology of religion · American History and Culture · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies
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Clio Goes to Church
Work in Progress Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States
Religion and the Quest for Meaning and Order
Witchcraft and the Colonization of Algonquian and Iroquois Cultures
Attaining 'a Sophisticated Maturity
Cradle of the Middle Class
Religious outsiders and the making of Americans
The broken covenant
A little commonwealth
The Bonds of Womanhood
Community and Social Change in America
Those Who Stayed behind
Beyond the Classics? Essays in the Scientific Study of Religion
The Social Origins of Nationalism
Shaker Demographics 1840-1900
On Church and Sect
An Alliance for Progress
The Noise of Solemn Assemblies
Church Adherence in the Eighteenth-Century British American Colonies
The Minutemen and Their World
The Transformative Impact of the Study of New Religions on the Sociology of Religion
Public Religion in American Culture
Getting Saved from the Sixties
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2008 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |