Religions

Religions

Religions

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Religions (1): Ancient nations might be classified into pagan and those that worshiped the universal God. However, some of the nations at one time were pagan and at other times had a fair conception of the supernatural. Also, in Egypt, the class of higher culture and education believed in the one omnipotent and omniscient Being, but the populace, who could be controlled more readily by flattering them in their notions and giving their childish conceptions full sway, worshiped idols.

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Notes and References

  1. Charles M. Scanlan, The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law. The Law of Church and Grave (1909), Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago

See Also

  • Religion
  • Church

Further Reading

P. L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967)

P. L. Berger, “Some Second Thoughts on Substantive Versus Functional Definitions of Religion,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 13(1974):125-133

A. J. Blasi, “Definition of Religion and Phenomenological Approach Towards a Problematic,” Cahiers du centre des recherches en sociologie religieuse 3(1980):55-70

C. H. Cooley, Social Organization (New York: Scribner, 1909)

K. Dobbelaere and J. Lauwers, “Definition of Religion,” Social Compass 20(1973):535-551

É. Durkheim, “De la définition des phénomènes religieux,” Année sociologique 2(1899):1-28

É. Durkheim, Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieux (Paris: Alcan, 1912)

R. W. Friedrichs, “The Uniquely Religious,” Sociological Analysis 46(1985):361-366

W. Garrett, “Troublesome Transcendence,” Sociological Analysis 35(1974): 167-180

C. Geertz, “Religion as a Cultural System,” in Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion , ed. M. Banton (New York: Praeger, 1966): 1-46

C. Y. Glock and R. Stark, Religion and Society in Tension (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965)

A. L. Greil and D. R. Rudy, “On the Margins of the Sacred,” in In Gods We Trust , 2nd ed., ed. T. Robbins and D. Anthony (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1990): 219-232

J. Harrison, Themis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912)

D. Hervieu-Léger, “Faut-il définir la religion?” Archives de sciences sociales des religions 63(1987): 11-20

D. Hervieu-Léger, “Tradition, Innovation and Modernity,” Social Compass 36(1989):71-81

R. Horton, “A Definition of Religion, and Its Uses,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 90(1960):201-226

W. James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Modern Library, 1902)

B. Kidd, Social Evolution (London: Macmillan, 1894)

C. C. Lemert, “Defining Non-church Religion,” Review of Religious Research 16(1975):186-198

T. Luckmann, The Invisible Religion (New York: Macmillan, 1967)

O. Maduro, Religion and Social Conflicts (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1982)

B. Malinowski, Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954 [1925])

T. F. O’Dea, The Sociology of Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1966)

R. Otto, The Idea of the Holy (London: Oxford University Press, 1923)

T. Parsons, The Structure of Social Action , vol. 2 (New York: Free Press, 1937)

T. Parsons, The Social System (New York: Free Press, 1951)

R. Richard, “Le concept de religion,” Cahiers de centre des recherches en sociologie religieuse 2(1978):3-17

E. A. Ross, Social Control (New York: Macmillan, 1901)

W. G. Runciman, “The Sociological Explanation of ‘Religious’ Beliefs,” Archives européennes de sociologie 10(1969):149-191

L. Schneider, “The Sociology of Religion,” Sociological Analysis 31(1970):131-144

G. Simmel, “On Religion from the Point of View of the Theory of Knowledge,” New England Sociologist 5(1984) [1903]):66-77

A. W. Small and G. E. Vincent, An Introduction to the Study of Society (New York: American Book Company, 1894)

P. A. Sorokin, Society, Culture, and Personality (New York: Harper, 1947)

R. Stark and W. S. Bainbridge, “Of Churches, Sects, and Cults,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 18(1979):117-133

W. H. Swatos, Jr., “Renewing ‘Religion’ for Sociology,” Sociological Focus 23(1990):141-153

W. H. Swatos, Jr., and P. M. Gustafson, “Meaning, Continuity, and Change,” in Twentieth-Century World Religious Movements in Neo- Weberian Perspective , ed. W. H. Swatos, Jr. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 1992): 1-20

R. G. Turner, “Consciousness, Valuation, and Religion,” Review of Religious Research 18(1976):25-35

E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture (London: Murray, 1871)

J. Wach, Types of Religious Experience (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951)

L. F. Ward, “The Essential Nature of Religion,” International Journal of Ethics 8(1898):169-192

M. Weber, Economy and Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978 [1922, original German edition])

A. J. Weigert, “Functional, Substantive, or Political?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 13(1974):483-486

J. M. Yinger, The Scientific Study of Religion (New York: Macmillan, 1970)

M. Zeldin, “The Religious Nature of Russian Marxism,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 8(1969):100-111.


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