Professors and experts, who are public employees, talk about and teach religion following the government line, promoting atheism against Catholicism and other religions. About 80 per cent of the ...

Sociologists of religion, in their concern for the social effects of religious institutions and the functions of religious meaning systems for people's identities, have neglected to study religious ...

The sociology of religion investigates how religious beliefs, practices and institutions shape, and are reshaped by, wider social structures. This field examines the role of religion in maintaining ...

This course is divided in four parts. In the first part, we will discuss various definitions of "sociological theory" and reflect on approaches to studying theories, including the sociology of ...

This course introduces students to the methods and theories used by sociologists to explore the nature of society. Selected topics may include culture, socialization, social interaction, groups, ...