The Sacred Canopy : Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
by Peter L. Berger 2020-04-19 23:35:25
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An absorbing and original examination that brilliantly argues that religion is a product of the society from which it springs—featuring illustrations drawn from a variety of primitive, ancient, and contemporary religions.In this book, Berg... Read more
An absorbing and original examination that brilliantly argues that religion is a product of the society from which it springs—featuring illustrations drawn from a variety of primitive, ancient, and contemporary religions.In this book, Berger that religion is the sacred canopy which every human society builds over its world to give it meaning, expanding on theories of knowledge that he first explored (with Thomas Luckmann) in The Social Construction of Reality. Less
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  • 8x5.1x0.6inches
  • 240
  • Anchor Books
  • April 26, 2011
  • eng
  • 9780385073059
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was an award-winning scholar and author and one of the most important modern American sociologists. Berger graduated from Wagner College in New York in 1949 before receiv...
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