The Development of Religious Research in the United States: Retrospect and Prospect

This paper examines the professionalization of religious research in the United States and related topics. Because professional societies illumine value orientations and practices among workers in a given field, the nature of the American Catholic Sociological Society, the American Society of Christ...

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Autor principal: Schroeder, W. Widick (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Springer 1971
En: Review of religious research
Año: 1971, Volumen: 13, Número: 1, Páginas: 2-12
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Sumario:This paper examines the professionalization of religious research in the United States and related topics. Because professional societies illumine value orientations and practices among workers in a given field, the nature of the American Catholic Sociological Society, the American Society of Christian Ethics, the Religious Research Association, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion are briefly considered. The differential appropriation of religious research in various ecclesiastical bodies, the problem of funding religious research in the American situation, and the shift in emphasis from a pragmatic problem-solving approach focused on institutional survival to a more theoretical approach to the understanding of religious phenomena are discussed. The bifurcation between persons interested in religious research trained under theological faculties and those trained under social science faculties is noted. Likely future lines of development in theory and research are projected.
ISSN:2211-4866
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3510319