Title:
The sacred canopy : elements of a sociological theory of religion / Peter L. Berger.
Author:
Berger, Peter L., 1929-
Publication Information:
New York : Anchor Books, 1990, ©1969, ©1967.
Call Number:
BL60 .B42 1990
Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random042/90034844.html
ISBN:
9780385073059
Physical Description:
vii, 229 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1967.
Subject Term:
Contents:
I. Systematic elements -- Religion and world-construction -- Religion and world-maintenance -- The problem of theodicy -- Religion and alienation -- II. Historical elements -- The process of secularization -- Secularization and the problem of plausibility -- Secularization and the problem of legitimation -- Appendices: Sociological definitions of religion -- Sociological and theological perspectives.
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