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Peter Berger and the Study of Religion
by Linda Woodhead, Paul Heelas, David Martin. 216 pgs.

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Peter Berger is the most influential contemporary sociologist of religion. This collection of essays is the first in-depth study of his contribution to the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to his work and to current thought in the study of religion. Themes addressed include:* Berger on religion and theology* Religion, spirituality and the discontents of modernity* Secularization and de-secularizationA postscript by Peter Berger, responding to the essays, completes this overview of this major figure's work.

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Introduction

Part I: Berger on Religion and Theology

1: Berger: an Appreciation

2: Berger and His Collaborator(s)

3: Berger: Theology and Sociology

Part II: Religion, Spirituality and the Discontents of Modernity

4: Homeless Minds Today?

5: A New Age Theodicy for a New Age

Part III: Secularization and Sacralization

6: The Curious Case of the Unnecessary Recantation: Berger and Secularization

7: The Persistence of Institutional Religion in Modern Europe

Notes

8: The Twofold Limit of the Notion of Secularization

Part IV: Signals of Transcendence

9: Berger’s Vision in Retrospect

10: Berger and New Testament Studies

11: Berger’s Anthropological Theology

Postscript

References

Index
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Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social Change
by Peter L. Berger. 242 pgs.

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Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social Change

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Preface

Twenty-Five: Theses

Prelude: The Great Pyramid at Cholula

Chapter I: Development—Policies, Theories, Myths

Chapter II: Against Capitalism? Critique of Growth

Interlude: Tableau in Garbage— Child, with Vultures

Chapter III: Against Socialism? Critique of Revolution

Interlude: A Tale of Two Slums

Chapter IV: Consciousness Raising and the Vicissitudes of Policy

Interlude: A Matter of Shining Shoes

Chapter V: Policy and the Calculus of Pain

Chapter VI: Policy and the Calculus of Meaning

Interlude: A Tale of Two Moralities

Chapter VII: The Case of America— in Quest of a Stance

Chapter VIII: Political Ethics— in Quest of a Method

Postlude: In the Valley of the Fallen

Index
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The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions about Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty
by Peter L. Berger. 262 pgs.

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The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions about Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty

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Introduction

1: Capitalism as a Phenomenon

2: Material Life: the Horn of Plenty

3: Class: the Ladder of Success

4: Capitalism and Political Liberties

5: Capitalism and Personal Liberation

6: Capitalism and Development

7: East Asian Capitalism: a Second Case

8: Industrial Socialism: a Control Case

9: Capitalism and the Dynamics of Myth

10: The Shape and Uses of a Theory of Capitalism

Notes

Index
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Sociology: A Biographical Approach
by Peter L. Berger, Brigitte Berger. 406 pgs.

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Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second, Expanded Edition

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Chapter 1: The Experience of Society

Chapter 2: The Discipline of Sociology

Chapter 3: Becoming a Member of Society Socialization

Chapter 4: What Is an Institution? the Case of Language

Chapter 5: The Family

Chapter 6: The Community

Chapter 7: The Stratified Community

Chapter 8: The Stratified Society

Chapter 9: What Is Social Control? the Case of Education

Chapter 10: Bureaucracy

Chapter 11: Youth

Chapter 12: Work and Leisure

Chapter 13: Power

Chapter 14: Deviance

Chapter 15: Change

Chapter 16: Old Age, Illness and Death

Chapter 17: Values and Ultimate Meanings

Postscript‐ Why Sociology?

Index
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The Limits of Social Cohesion: Conflict and Mediation in Pluralist Societies
by Peter L. Berger. 396 pgs.

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This book, edited by renowned sociologist Peter Berger, is an important contribution to understanding the cultural fault lines that threaten social cohesion.

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Preface

Preface

Introduction

1: The American Culture War

Notes

2: The Past in the Present: Redefining Laïcité in Multicultural France

3: Normative Conflicts in Germany: Basic Consensus, Changing Values, and Social Movements

Notes

4: Uncertain Ghosts: Populists and Urbans in Postcommunist Hungary

Notes

5: Revolution from the Top and Horizontal Mediation: The Case of Chile's Transition to Democracy

Notes

6: South Africa: Normative Conflicts, Social Cohesion, and Mediating Institutions

References

7: Some Notes on Normative Conflicts in Turkey

Notes

8: Islamic Tolerance: The Struggle for a Pluralist Ethics in Contemporary Indonesia

References

10: Normative Conflicts in Japan

Notes

11: Normative Conflicts in Contemporary Taiwan

References

Conclusion: General Observations on Normative Conflicts and Mediation

Executive Summaries

Notes

Bibliography

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The State of Religious Freedom, in World Affairs
by Peter L. Berger. 16 pgs.

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Religions and Globalisation, in European Judaism
by Peter L. Berger. 7 pgs.

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The Neoconservative Critique of Liberal Evangelicals: A Response to Berger and Hunter, in Review of Religious Research
by Kyle Cleveland. 11 pgs.

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The Place of Bonhoeffer: Problems and Possibilities in His Thought ("Sociology and Ecclesiology" by Peter Berger begins on p. 53)
by Martin E. Marty. 224 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Works of Bonhoeffer

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1: Introduction: Problems And Possibilities in Bonhoeffer's Thought

Notes for Essay 1

2: The Question: Who is Christ For Us Today?

Bonhoeffer's History, Church, and World

Notes for Essay 2

3: The Social Character of the Question Concerning Jesus Christ

Sociology and Ecclesiology

Notes for Essay 3

4: The Methods of Asking the Question Concerning Jesus Christ

Act and Being

Notes for Essay 4

5: The Source of Answers to the Question Concerning Jesus Christ

Bonhoeffer and the Bible1

Notes for Essay 5

6: The Early Answer to the Question Concerning Jesus Christ

Bonhoeffer's Christologie of 1933

Notes for Essay 6

7: The Christian in the Church Responding To the Answer in Jesus Christ

Liturgy and Devotion

Notes for Essay 7

8: The Christian in the World Responding To the Answer in Jesus Christ

Realized Faith, the Ethics Of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Notes for Essay 8
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The Limits of Social Cohesion: Conflict and Mediation in Pluralist Societies
by Peter L. Berger. 396 pgs.

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This book, edited by renowned sociologist Peter Berger, is an important contribution to understanding the cultural fault lines that threaten social cohesion.

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Contents

Preface

Preface

Introduction

1: The American Culture War

Notes

2: The Past in the Present: Redefining Laïcité in Multicultural France

3: Normative Conflicts in Germany: Basic Consensus, Changing Values, and Social Movements

Notes

4: Uncertain Ghosts: Populists and Urbans in Postcommunist Hungary

Notes

5: Revolution from the Top and Horizontal Mediation: The Case of Chile's Transition to Democracy

Notes

6: South Africa: Normative Conflicts, Social Cohesion, and Mediating Institutions

References

7: Some Notes on Normative Conflicts in Turkey

Notes

8: Islamic Tolerance: The Struggle for a Pluralist Ethics in Contemporary Indonesia

References

10: Normative Conflicts in Japan

Notes

11: Normative Conflicts in Contemporary Taiwan

References

Conclusion: General Observations on Normative Conflicts and Mediation

Executive Summaries

Notes

Bibliography

About the Contributors
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The Meaning of Culture: Moving the Postmodern Critique Forward ("Sense-Meaning, Reality, and Sign Systems: Berger, Luckmann, and Geertz" begins on p. 45)
by Kenneth Allan. 198 pgs.

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In review of the major theoretical approaches to culture, Allan argues that the structure of culture has been overemphasized and affect-meaning neglected. This approach to studying culture has as its basis the social construction of meaning and reality and emphasizes micro-level processes and emotion.

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Introduction: Culture, Reality, the Demon of Reflexivity, and Theory

1: The Postmodern Problem and Linguistic-Structuralism

2: The Subjective View and the Social Construction of Sense-Meaning

3: The Moral Perspective and the Social Construction of Affect-Meaning

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4: The Ideological Perspective and the Challenge to Meaning and Reality

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5: The Production of Meaning and Reality in Postmodernity

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Index

About the Author
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Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings ("Society as a Human Product" by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann begins on p. 384)
by Charles Lemert. 674 pgs.

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"A rich, highly textured, historically sweeping, & strikingly inclusive collection that aims to reconstruct, perhaps for the first time, the actual dialogue of contemporary social thought." Jeffrey Alexander University of California at Los Angeles "Charles Lemert captures the surfacing of multiple theoretical voices in the postmodern era. No theory course should be without Social Theory." Steve Seidman State University of New York at Albany

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Introduction Social Theory

Part One: Modernity's Classical Age: 1848-1919

The Two Sides of Society

Estranged Labour

Camera Obscura

Class Struggle

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

On Imperialism in India

The Values of Commodities

The Fetishism of Commodities

Labour-Power and Capital

The Patriarchal Family

Anomie and the Modern Division of Labor

Sociology and Social Facts

Suicide and Modernity

Primitive Classifications and Social Knowledge

The Cultural Logic of Collective Representations

The Spirit of Capitalism and the Iron Cage

The Bureaucratic Machine

What Is Politics?

The Types of Legitimate Domination

Class, Status, Party

The Psychical Apparatus and the Theory of Instincts

Dream-Work and Interpretation

Oedipus, the Child

Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through

The Return of the Repressed in Social Life

Civilization and the Individual

Arbitrary Social Values and the Linguistic Sign

The Self and Its Selves

Split Lives in the Modern World

Double-Consciousness and the Veil

The Spirit of Modern Europe

The Yellow Wallpaper

Women and Economics

The Colored Woman's Office

The Stranger

The Looking-Glass Self

Part Two: Social Theories and World Conflict: 1919-1945

Action, Knowledge, Self

The New Liberalism

The Irrational Chasm Between Subject and Object

The Unit Act of Action Systems

What Is to Be Done?

The Sociology of Knowledge and Ideology

Psychoanalysis and Sociology

The Self, the I, and the Me

Social Structure and Anomie

Unavoidable Dilemmas

Moral Man and Immoral Society

The Negro Problem as a Moral Issue

Disorganization of the Polish Immigrant

Personality and Status Within the Gang

Art, War, and Fascism

A Room of One's Own

Intellectuals and Hegemony

Nonviolent Force: A Spiritual Dilemma

Identity, Struggle, Contradiction

The Japanese and the Americans

Part Three: The Golden Moment: 1945-1963

The Golden Age

On the United States and Containment of the Soviets

The End of Ideology in the West

Modernization: Stages of Growth

Action Systems and Social Systems

Sex Roles in the American Kinship System

Manifest and Latent Functions

The Structural Study of Myth

Semiological Prospects

Why Theory?

Doubts and Reservations

Character and Society: The Other-directed Personality

Youth and American Identity

On Face-Work

The Eccentric Self and the Discourse of the Other

Others Object

Woman as Other

Between Colonizer and Colonized

The Power of Nonviolent Action

The Sociological Imagination

Participatory Democracy (from The Port Huron Statement)

The Problem That Has No Name

Decolonizing, National Culture, and the Negro Intellectual

Part Four: Will the Center Hold? 1963-1979

Experiments at Renewal and Reconstruction

Change and the Planning System

Emancipatory Knowledge

Society as a Human Product

Knowing a Society from Within: A Woman's Standpoint

The Modern World-System

The State as a Janus-faced Structure

Breaking with Modernity

Toward a Reflexive Sociology

Repressive Desublimation

Reflexive Properties of Practical Sociology

Structures, Habitus, Practices

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Part Five: After Modernity, Since 1979

The Idea of the Postmodern

Whither Postmodernism?

The Postmodern Condition

Simulacra and Simulations: Disneyland

Reactions and Alternatives

Post-Modernity or Radicalized Modernity?

Radical Democracy: Alternative for a New Left

Foucault on Power: A Theory for Women?

The Afrocentric Idea

Postpositivist Case for the Classics

The New Social Structure and the New Social Science

E Pluribus Unum?

After Modernity

The New Cultural Politics of Difference

"Race" as the Trope of the World

The Cyborg Manifesto and Fractured Identities

Infinite Layers/Third World?

Can the Subaltern Speak?

Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination

The New Mestiza

Sexual Identification Is a Strange Thing

Imitation and Gender Insubordination

Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism

The End of the Modern Era

Part Six: Searching for the Millennium

Future Social Science and the Invisible Elbow

Rethinking the Globalizing World

The Information Age

The Global Network

The City in a Globalizing World

The Global, the Local, and the Return of Ethnicity

The New Social Formations

Cultural Criticism and Telecommunications

Working Women in the Time Bind

The Productivity of the Closet

The Courage to Stand Alone

Final Notes: Where Does Reading End?

Acknowledgments/1999 Edition

Index
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The Gross National Product and the Gods, in The McKinsey Quarterly
by Peter L. Berger. 14 pgs.

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