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SOCIOLOGY 265 -- Discussion Questions
Michael R. Leming, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Spring Semester 1999
- Ammerman,
Chapter 1: "Introduction: Studying Fundamentalism"
- Ammerman,
Chapter 2: "Fundamentalist Forebears: Warriors Against
Modernity"
- Ammerman,
Chapter 4: "Being Always Ready to Give an Answer"
- Ammerman,
Chapter 5: "On Light and Darkness: Living in an Alien
World"
- Ammerman,
Chapter 6: "The Assembling Together of Believers: Building a World
to Call Home"
- Ammerman,
Chapter 7: "The Shepherd and His Flock: Authority, Structure, and
Ritual"
- Ammerman,
Chapter 8: "Husbands and Wives"
- Ammerman,
Chapter 9: "Bringing Them In: Recruiting New Members"
- Ammerman,
Chapter 10: "The Nurture and Admonition of the Lord: Raising
Children"
- Ammerman,
Chapter 11: "Fundamentalists in the Modern World"
- Ammerman,
Some Summary Questions
- "Sociology
of Knowledge and the Sociology of Religion"
- Peter
Berger's Sacred Canopy Chapter 1 -- Religion and
World-Construction
- Peter
Berger's Sacred Canopy Chapter 2 -- Religion and
World-Maintenance
- Peter
Berger's Sacred Canopy Chapter 2.1 -- Religion and
World-Maintenance
- Peter
Berger's Sacred Canopy Chapters 3 and 4 -- Theodicies and
Alienation
- Peter
Berger's Sacred Canopy Chapters 5, 6, and 7 --
Secularization
- Meredith
Mcguire's Religion Chapter 1 -- The Sociological Perspective on
Religion
- Meredith
Mcguire's Religion Chapter 2 -- The Provision of Meaning and
Belonging
- Meredith
Mcguire's Religion Chapter 3 -- The Individual's Religion
- Meredith
Mcguire's Religion Chapter 4 -- Official and Nonofficial
Religion
- Meredith
Mcguire's Religion Chapter 5 -- Religious Collectivities
- Meredith
Mcguire's Religion Chapter 6 -- Cohesion and Conflict; Case Study
in Civil Religion
- Meredith
Mcguire's Religion Chapter 7 -- The Impact of Religion on Social
Change
- Meredith
Mcguire's Religion Chapter 8 -- Secularization
- Stuart
A. Wright's Leaving Cults: The Dynamics of Defection Chapters 1 -
4
- Stuart
A. Wright's Leaving Cults: The Dynamics of Defection Chapters 5 -
9
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