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SOCJOLOGIA RELIGII W POLSCE I NA ŚWIECIE – TRADYCJA I WSPÓŁCZESNOŚĆ
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION IN POLAND AND IN THE WORLD – TRADITION AND CONTEMPORARY TIMES

Author(s): Emilia Zimnica-Kuzioła
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: socjologia; religia; tradycja; sociology; religion; tradition

Summary/Abstract: This article is a synthetic review of theoretical and empirical achievements of Polish and foreign sociology of religion. The author presents the major authors of this discipline – the classics of sociology, the masters of social anthropology, representatives of phenomenological concepts of religion. She shows contemporary conditions of sociology of religion – also through the most important personages of this field of knowledge, she mentions problems which are widely discussed – the functions of religion in modern secularized world, new religious movements, influence of global processes on a religious condition of societies.

  • Issue Year: 416/2008
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 108-127
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish