A comparative sociology of world religions : virtuosos, priests, and popular religion /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.