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MAX WEBER
MAX WEBER (1864-1920) German political economist and sociologist, originally trained in jurisprudence. Faculty member, for most of his life adjunct, at the University of Heidelberg, and from 1904 editorial director of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik . Author of a prodigious corpus, including the essays The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ,…
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VIOLENCE
VIOLENCE The (usually intentional) use of harmful force; studies involving religion include examinations of international religious violence (e.g., Indian and Pakistani tensions), violence between groups and society (e.g., the Sikh nationalist movement), violence among groups (e.g., Protestants versus Catholics in Northern Ireland), violence among members (e.g., members’ murders of other Jonestown followers), and violence against…
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THEORY
THEORY The attempt to explain or account for religion and its role in society as well as in individual experience; systematic social scientific theories begin primarily in the nineteenth and early twentieth century with such writers as Marx, Weber, Durkheim and his school, Freud, Troeltsch, James, and others. Although more recent work builds on these…
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STATUS
STATUS Of considerable significance for social scientific investigations of the origins, development, and decline of a wide variety of religious ideologies, movements, and institutions. Like other concepts that seek to impose sociological rigor on familiar societal terminology, status is subject to a number of distinct (although overlapping) usages that sometimes generate confusion. The Legal Context…
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SPIRITUALISM
SPIRITUALISM Religious and social movement based on the belief that it is possible to communicate with the deceased after their bodily death. Although mediumship exists in many societies, the American Spiritualist Movement was launched in 1848 with mysterious knockings in a house in Hydesville, New York. The phenomena, thought to be caused by spirits, attracted…
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SOCIAL JUSTICE
SOCIAL JUSTICE Has a long history in Western religious writings in relation to the concept of the distribution of a society’s resources according to people’s needs. It has roots in the Bible, particularly in the prophets and in Leviticus, and in the works of early Christian writers. Within the past hundred years, it has found…
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SEXUALITY AND FERTILITY
SEXUALITY AND FERTILITY Religion and sexuality are cohabitors in history and across cultures (see Weber 1946:343-350). Sexuality and sexual practice are regulated by religious belief and doctrine; religious ritual may prescribe sexual activity including intercourse with gods or their earthly representatives; gods may be seen in myths as engaging in sexual work leading to the…
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SEXISM
SEXISM Millions of believers gather regularly in churches, synagogues, and other “holy” places to worship a higher power, learn the doctrines and principles of their faith, socialize with other followers, and celebrate a particular form of “family life.” Commensurate with the faith messages are admonitions concerning the rights and responsibilities of men, women, and children…
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Accommodationism
Accommodationism Mark Noll and Luke E. Harlow noted (13 September 2007, “Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present”,. Oxford University Press. p. 82): “The accommodationist perspective emphasizes rather that the First Amendment was clearly not intended to be antireligious–indeed, as already suggested, it was drafted precisely to protect the various religious…
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Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims Full Title A Dictionary of Law, Consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims and an Exposition of the Principles of Law: Comprising a Dictionary and Compendium of American and English Jurisprudence Details Author: William C. Anderson (United…
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Freedom of Religion
Introduction to Freedom of Religion Freedom of Religion, right of a person to form personal religious beliefs according to his or her own conscience and to give public expression to these beliefs in worship and teaching, restricted only by the requirements of public order. Religious liberty […]
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Freedom of Religion
Introduction to Freedom of Religion Freedom of Religion, right of a person to form personal religious beliefs according to his or her own conscience and to give public expression to these beliefs in worship and teaching, restricted only by the requirements of public order. Religious liberty […]
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Basilian Monks
Basilian Monks Basilian Monks, those who follow the rule of Basil the Great. The chief importance of the monastic rule and institute of St Basil lies in the fact that to this day his reconstruction of the monastic life is the basis of the monasticism of the Greek and Slavonic Churches, though the monks do…
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Presbyterians
Contributions, Presbyterians, Methodists From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Contributions, Presbyterians, Methodists (1): Where certain persons by contributions built a church and the title was taken and held by the Presbyterians who permitted all other denominations to […]