Response by Nancy T. Ammerman: Modern Altars in Everyday Life
The question of religion’s presence and role in a modern world has occupied sociologists from the beginning, none more brilliantly or influentially than Peter Berger (1969). With his masterful synthesis of the foundational theorists, he gave sociologists critical ways to think about religion. It was one of the very first books I read in the field, and its first four chapters remain on my syllabus every time I teach an introductory course. In the last three chapters of The Sacred Canopy, Berger then exercised his skill in reading the western theological and philosophical tradition alongside those sociological texts, formulating a theory of secularization that was enormously persuasive, ...
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