Contemporary developments in Negro middle-class religion : an overview
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Willine Carr (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Donald Allen
Abstract: The sociology of religion is often placed in a defensive position in which it must define its status as a legitimate area of scientific inquiry. Many doubt that religious phenomena, with a concern for the supernatural and with individual, subjective, non-empirical elements can be studied in any systematic, reliable fashion. But as the sociologist views religion, individual and subjective attributes are only one aspect of religious phenomena. Beyond this, religion is viewed as having significant collective and social elements. Religion is seen as a part of a cultural complex such that there is an interrelation of religion and society which involves mutual influences. The social system and social changes affect religious forms and expressions. At the same time, religion has significant effects on the socio-cultural system.
Contemporary developments in Negro middle-class religion : an overview
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Created on 1/1/1967
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Honors Project
- Language: English
- Date: 1967