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100			_aTurner, Bryan S.
245		0	_aReligion And Social Theory _c/ Bryan S. Turner
250			_a2nd Edition
260			_aLondon _b: Sage Publications _c, 1991
300			_a272 p.
520			_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.
650			_aReligion and Sociology
650			_aReligion and Politics,
942			_cRBK
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