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Religion and Social Theory

By Bryan S Turner, B. S. Turner
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In Religion and Social Theory Bryan Turner assesses the different theoretical approaches to the social function of religion, in particular those of Engels, Durkheim, Weber, Nietzsche, Freud, Parsons, Marcuse, Habermas and Foucault. In so doing, he develops his own distinctive perspective on the role of religion as an institutional link between economic and human reproduction.

Social theories of religion are explored through a resolutely comparative and historical analysis of the …

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