The Sacred in a Secular Age: Toward Revision in the Scientific Study of ReligionPhillip E. Hammond This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Inherited Model | 9 |
Theoretical Issues | 21 |
Yet Another | 36 |
Social Responses to Cults | 58 |
The Study of Social Change in Religion 135 | 75 |
New Perspectives from CrossCultural Studies | 90 |
Secularization | 104 |
Gender the Family and the Sacred | 204 |
The Sacred and Third World Societies | 215 |
Religion and Psychological WellBeing | 237 |
Psychoanalysis and the Sacred | 257 |
Religion and Healing | 268 |
Mysticism | 285 |
Policy Formation in Religious Systems | 317 |
Social Justice and the Sacred | 333 |
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