The Social Scientific Study of Religion

In this study, Paul S. Chung charts the history of social scientific study of religion from the axial age to the present day, and thereby lays a foundation for a new model of constructive theology in the comparative study of religion, culture and society. Analysing the thought of Max Weber, Alfred Schutz, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Edmund Husserl, Max Horkheimer and others, Chung deals effectively with material interests, power relations and the history of race, gender and sexuality. The result is a synthesis that is at once innovative, critical, and applicable to current methodology in theology and the social sciences.

About the author

Paul S. Chung (Dr Habil.) specialises in theology at the University of Basel, Switz­erland, and in sociology of religion at the University of California, Berkeley, CA. He was previously associate professor at Luther Seminary, St Paul, Minnesota, and is nominated distinguished professor at Lutheran Theo­logical Seminary at Chicago. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Historians¿ Debate ¿ Public Theology website and teaches in Berkeley.

Product details

• Authors: Paul S. Chung
• Publisher: James Clarke & Co
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780227177662
• ISBN: 978-0-227-17766-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 569 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)