Peter L. Berger: Searching for the sense and meaning of religion Cover Image

Питер Л. Бергер: у потрази за смислом и значењем религије
Peter L. Berger: Searching for the sense and meaning of religion

Author(s): Lidija Radulovich
Subject(s): Religion and science , Sociology of Religion
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Peter L. Berger; religion; secularization; desecularization; religious pluralism

Summary/Abstract: American sociologist of Austrian origin, Peter L. Berger, is one of the most significant sociologists of religion in the 20th and 21st century. In this work I present, pursuant to my opinion and choice, the most important research issues Berger dealt with within the social construction of reality, religion, secularization, desecularization and religious pluralism. It was my aim to highlight, among other things, that which is common to Berger's sociological approach to religion and the anthropological researches. The basic idea, pointed out in the title of the work, the search for the sense and meaning of religion, is reviewed through examples of similarities and differences between Clifford Geertz and Berger. The category of "meaning" served as a key to understanding of culture, and even religion as a cultural system which transfers meaning.

  • Issue Year: LXVII/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 135-150
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian