A comparative sociology of world religions : virtuosos, priests, and popular religion / Stephen Sharot

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York ; London : New York University Press, cop. 2001Description: vii, 344 s ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0-8147-9804-7 (inb.)
  • 0-8147-9805-5 (hft.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201.9 21
Other classification:
  • C:oa
  • C:oa
Contents:
Contents: World religions, elites, and popular religion -- Religious action : a Weberian model -- Elites and masses : Max Weber, Weberian scholars, and Marxist analysis -- China : state religion, elites, and popular religion in a syncretistic. milieu -- India : Brahmans, renouncers, and popular Hinduism -- Nirvana and spirits : Buddhism and animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia -- Hierocracy and popular religion : Catholicism in 'traditional' Europe -- Elite scholars and. popular saints : a brief excursus on Islam and Judaism -- Protestants, Catholics, and the reform of popular religion -- Comparisons. 0185
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Contents: World religions, elites, and popular religion -- Religious action : a Weberian model -- Elites and masses : Max Weber, Weberian scholars, and Marxist analysis -- China : state religion, elites, and popular religion in a syncretistic. milieu -- India : Brahmans, renouncers, and popular Hinduism -- Nirvana and spirits : Buddhism and animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia -- Hierocracy and popular religion : Catholicism in 'traditional' Europe -- Elite scholars and. popular saints : a brief excursus on Islam and Judaism -- Protestants, Catholics, and the reform of popular religion -- Comparisons. 0185