About this title: In The Sociology Of Religion, first published in the United States in 1963, he looks at the significant role religion has played in social change throughout history. This book was a formative text of the new disciple of sociology and has gone on to become a classic in the social sciences.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very Good. lxvii, 304 p.; 22 cm. "First published in Germany, in 1922...under the title 'Religionssoziologie, ' from Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. lxvii, 304 p.; 22 cm. "First published in Germany, in 1922...under the title 'Religionssoziologie, ' from Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. " read more
Description: Very Good. Sociology. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Very minimal edge-wear, pages are clean and tightly bound, light underlining and note-taking in pen on the first seven pages, no other interior markings of any kind. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780807042052ISBN:0807042056
Description: Fair. R. Paperback. Highlighting, marking throughout first 50 pp. Light wear. Text is tight. All items are carefully and securely packed to insure they arrive in the advertised condition. read more
Edition: 4th
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. Ships with US tracking number. VG clean text, some white rub to spine cloth. Dust jacket is Acceptable with light edge bump/chip and a couple of split/nicks, sticker pull to front. read more
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good in Good dj, now protected by Brodart mylar cover. The underlining throughout suggest that the previous owner found much of interest here. Some minor tape marks on the cover; name inside. The dj has some whitish streaks from an unclear source (whiteout smear? ). Minor wrinkling at spine ends, but the Brodart sparks the dj considerably. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780807042052ISBN:0807042056
Description: Very Good. 1993 trade-sized softcover. Pages are unmarked, and binding is firm. Paper cover is clean with good edges; minor shelf-rubbing only to the face of the cover. This is NOT an ex-library book and not a remainder. A very good, very useful copy overall. read more
Edition: First Beacon Ppbk Ed.1964
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good. Academic, Scholarly, Research. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 304 pp. Solidly bound book with pen markings throughout book. Slight fading. Otherwise, a great study/work copy. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780807042052ISBN:0807042056
Description: Poor. No dust jacket as issued. Pages have sustained moisture damage and are stained; wraps are soiled and the laminate is separating. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. CS4-A hardcover book in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has less than an inch tear with crease on the front bottom gutter, wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, label on the spine, foxing, discoloration and shelf wear. Book has light foxing on the page edges, some light stains on the endpapers, light discoloration and shelf wear. Translated by Ephraim Fischoff, Introduction by Talcott ... read more
Description: Good. Wear to cover-staining to page edge-creases to binding-lots of underlining in introduction-otherwise binding strong contents fine. read more
Description: Very Good in chipped jacket. Introduction by Talcott Parsons. Translation by Ephraim Fischoff of the 1956 4th edition of Religionssoziologie, revised by Johannes Winckelmann. Beacon Series in the Sociology of Politics and Religion, edited by James Luther Adams. Boston: Beacon Press, [1964]. 3rd printing in English. [First published 1922 in German; First issued in English translation in 1963]. [2]+lxvii+[3]+304+[4]pp. Small octavo. Red cloth-backed embossed brown boards with off-white spine ... read more
Description: Good; Collectible. 1963 Beacon Press hard cover-some wear to dust jacket-some underlining-minor tanning to page edge-owner's name inside cover-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents fine-enjoy. read more
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Methuen, London
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good +/Good + Used Very good condition, brown cover, d/w is sunned and grubby, edges have nicks and mends, tail of spine is bumped, signed on FEP by previous owner, clear and tight. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Methuen, London
Date Published: 1965
Description: Hardcover, 8vo, xvii+308pp, appendices, index, some foxing to edges all else VG in G to VG d/w marked and edgeworn. Translated from the German by Ephraim Fischoff. Introduction by Talcott Parsons. read more
"Perhaps I should have put up a buffer between this and Durkheim's "Elements of the Religious Life" because the first 2/3 of the book were dragging completely. Might be because I am familiar with a lot of the territory. The insights came at the end for me about economics, class and caste. Some wonderful observations about the history of religions in relation to their social structure with economics, art, culture and other things."
"I just finished a review of Weber in how institutions think by Mary Douglas. Not suprisingly, she used Weber to show how institutions create and think in categories. I always thought the Sociology of Religion was primarily a list of taxonomies that, while being fun for academics to play with, are really very useless. Whenever I see this book in a bibliography, it is because they used one of his taxonomies so they could book this book in their bibliography--thereby making the article seem very serious and learned.
His famous insights into soteriology are interesting. But the category "soteriological religion" is itself one of his created categories."
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