Joseph A. Scimecca

The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Developing a history of the origins of sociology that recognizes the centrality of Christianity to the discipline's development, this book provides a rationale for a Christian sociology, challenging the paradigms of contemporary sociology, which provide only a limited understanding of social behavior.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000922110
• Artikelnr.: 68291854

Autorenporträt

Joseph A. Scimecca is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Christianity and Sociological Theory: Reclaiming the Promise, Society and Freedom: An Introduction to Humanist Sociology, Education and Society and The Sociological Theory of C. Wright Mills, the co-author of Classical Sociological Theory: Rediscovering the Promise of Sociology and Sociology: Analysis and Application, and the co-editor of Conflict Resolution: Cross Cultural Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Christianity and a Brief Prehistory of Sociology 2.
Sociology as a Substitute for Christianity 3. Sociology Comes to the United
States 4. Positivism, Scienticism and the Rejection of a Moral Sociology 5.
The Secularization Thesis 6. The Default Position of the Intelligentsia:
Postmodernism and Scientific Materialism 7. A New Sociology of Religion? 8.
The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology