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" A Comparative Sociology of World Religions "
Stephen Sharot.
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636469
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Sharot, Stephen.
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A Comparative Sociology of World Religions : Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion /\ Stephen Sharot.
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New York :: New York University Press,, c2001.
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1 online resource (vii, 344 p. )
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9780814786635
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: 0814786634
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0814798047 (alk. paper)
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0814798055 (pbk.)
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9780814798041
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-335) and index.
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| Contents
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World religions, elites, and popular religion -- Religious action : a Weberian model -- Elites and masses : Max Weber, Weberian scholars, and Marxist analysis -- China : state religion, elites, and popular religion in a syncretistic milieu -- India : Brahmans, renouncers, and popular Hinduism -- Nirvana and spirits : Buddhism and animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia -- Hierocracy and popular religion : Catholicism in 'traditional' Europe -- Elite scholars and popular saints : a brief excursus on Islam and Judaism -- Protestants, Catholics, and the reform of popular religion -- Comparisons.
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Religions.
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Religion and sociology.
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306.6
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Project Muse.
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