Current Studies in the Sociology of Religion

• Huvudskapare: Kent R. Kerley (Ed.) (auth)
• Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
• Språk: engelska
• Publicerad: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
• Ämnen: religion and public life; religion and community; religion and crime; religion and politics; faith-based research; religion and health; religion and family; sociology of religion
• Länkar: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The study of religion as an academic discipline is a rather recent development in colleges anduniversities in the United States and abroad. Although French sociologist Émile Durkheim wrote extensively about the role of religion in public life in the early 1900s, it was not until the 1960s that rese...