Secularization as Declining Religious Authority*
作者:
Mark Chaves,
期刊:
Social Forces
(OUP Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 72,
issue 3
页码: 749-774
ISSN:0037-7732
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1093/sf/72.3.749
出版商: The University of North Carolina Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
Secularization is most productively understood not as declining religion, but as the declining scope of religious authority. A focus on religious authority (1) is more consistent with recent developments in social theory than is a preoccupation with religion; (2) draws on and develops what is best in the secularization literature; and (3) reclaims a neglected Weberian insight concerning the sociological analysis of religion. Several descriptive and theoretical “pay-offs” of this conceptual innervation are discussed: new hypotheses concerning the relationship between religion and social movements; the enhanced capacity to conceptually apprehend and empirically investigate secularization among societies, organizations, and individuals; and clearer theoretical connections between secularization and other sociological literatures. Ironically, these connections may indeed spell the end of secularization theory as a distinct body of theory, but in a different way than previously appreciated.
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