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1. www.socialsciencespace.com › 2017 › 07Sociologist of the Spiritual: Peter Berger, 1929-2017

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   Jul 11, 2017 · It was in 1969 that Berger’s A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural came out. In it, he defends an individual’s decision to retain a spiritual orientation in the face of rampant, and inevitable, secularization.

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3. www.christianitytoday.com › 2017 › 06Why Christian Scholars Loved Peter Berger - Christianity Today

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   Jun 30, 2017 · In The Sacred Canopy (1967), Berger explained how religion helped people make sense of the world by providing a “sheltering” tent under which all of life could make sense.

4. albertmohler.com › 2010/10/11 › rethinkingRethinking Secularization: A Conversation with Peter Berger

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   Oct 11, 2010 · Peter Berger is one of the best known sociologists and intellectuals in the world today. He has influenced successive generations through his writings, books, and speaking especially on the issue of secularization and what it means. He writes from inside the Christian community and understanding the larger world of sociology.

5. www.cambridge.org › core › booksPeter L. Berger and The Challenge of Modern Pluralism ...

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   Oct 17, 2023 · Although better known for his foundational writings in the sociology of religion, modernity, and capitalism, Peter L. Berger was for his entire life preoccupied with the challenge of modern pluralism.

6. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullRethinking the theoretical base of Peter L. Berger’s ...

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   Sep 20, 2019 · Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was one of the most influential sociologists of the last sixty years. In the sociology of religion, his publications are among the key works of the discipline. This paper is a “positive critique” of three aspects of Berger’s theoretical work in the sociology of religion: (1) an inconsistent application of the ...

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7. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullPeter L. Berger and the sociology of religion - Titus Hjelm, 2018

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   Mar 1, 2018 · Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was one of the most influential sociologists of the last century. In the sociology of religion, his classic status is uncontested. This article examines Berger’s original application of a constructionist sociology of knowledge perspective to the sociology of religion and its application to the theory of ...

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   Who was Peter Berger?

   • Peter Berger, a sociologist of religion, unlikely culture warrior and founder of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs on Boston University, died on June 27. He was 88.

   Sociologist of the Spiritual: Peter Berger, 1929-2017

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   What did Peter Berger say about sociology?

   • In 2011 Boston University’s press office interviewed Peter Berger about his then new memoir, Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore . In this excerpt, Berger explains toon interviewer Rich Barlow what Berger meant when he wrote that sociology has “moved in directions that are uncongenial to me.”

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   What is Berger's last work in sociology of religion?

   • One could argue that Berger’s last work in the sociology of religion, The Many Altars of Modernity (2014) is a return to the original sociology of knowledge approach espoused in his earlier work, but as in his previous work, Berger does not give us an outline of a research program, but rather a broad approach.

   Rethinking the theoretical base of Peter L. Berger’s sociology of

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   Is Berger a sociology of religion?

   • The suggested revisions of Berger’s sociology of religion are also vindicated by the shifting concerns in the empirical reality of contemporary religion, where discursive boundary-making and -maintenance are increasingly relevant.

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   What is a positive critique of Berger's sociology of religion?

   • This paper is a “positive critique” of three aspects of Berger’s theoretical work in the sociology of religion: (1) an inconsistent application of the idea of social construction, (2) a lack of focus on power and ideology, and (3) an insufficient operationalization of language as a vehicle of world-construction.

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   What does Wuthnow say about Berger?

   • The starting point of this is Wuthnow’s (1992, 32) critique of Berger’s focus on individual meaning: “the subjective emphasis on reality construction and personal meaning has pointed towards inner moods and motivations—phenomena that elude the usual methods of documentation and verification in the social sciences.”

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9. www.sociologygroup.com › peter-bergerPeter L. Berger: Short Bio and Important Contributions in ...

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   Peter L. Berger (1929-2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist and a theologian. He was affiliated to different renowned universities of the world. He also founded the Institute of Culture, Religion and World Affairs, at the Boston University in 1985 (Berger, 2017).