The Social Scientific Study of Religion
A Method for Constructive Theology
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Release Date: 30/06/2022
A Method for Constructive Theology. In this study, Paul S. Chung charts the history of socialscientific study of religion from the axial age to the present day, and therebylays a foundation for a new model of constructive theology in the comparativestudy of religion, culture and society. Analysing the thought of Max Weber,Alfred Schutz, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Edmund Husserl, Max Horkheimerand others, Chung deals effectively with material interests, power relationsand the history of race, gender and sexuality. The result is a synthesis thatis at once innovative, critical, and applicable to current methodology intheology and the social sciences.