01109nam a2200169Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200180007610000210009424500500011525000160016526000400018130000110022152006530023265000270088565000270091220260930145640.0260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780803985698  223a306.6 TUR  aTurner, Bryan S. 0aReligion And Social Theoryc/ Bryan S. Turner  a2nd Edition  aLondonb: Sage Publicationsc, 1991  a272 p.  aBook on the social analysis of religion incorporates a substantial new introduction by Bryan S Turner. Religion and Social Theory assesses the different theoretical approaches to the social function of religion. Turner discusses at length the ideas of key contributors to these approaches (including Engels, Durkheim, Weber, Nietzsche, Freud, Parsons, Marcuse, Habermas and Foucault). In so doing, he develops a distinctive perspective on the role of religion as an institutional link between economic and human reproduction. Social theories of religion are explored through a resolutely comparative and historical analysis of the Abrahamic faiths.  aReligion and Sociology  aReligion and Politics,