The Social Scientific Study of Religion
A Method for Constructive Theology
Paul S. Chung
- In
- this
- study,
- Paul
- S.
- Chung
- charts
- the
- history
- of
- social
- scientific
- study
- of
- religion
- from
- the
- axial
- age
- to
- the
- present
- day,
- and
- thereby
- lays
- a
- foundation
- for
- a
- new
- model
- of
- constructive
- theology
- in
- the
- comparative
- study
- of
- religion,
- culture
- and
- society.
- Analysing
- the
- thought
- of
- Max
- Weber,
- Alfred
- Schutz,
- Pierre
- Bourdieu,
- Michel
- Foucault,
- Edmund
- Husserl,
- Max
- Horkheimer
- and
- others,
- Chung
- deals
- effectively
- with
- material
- interests,
- power
- relations
- and
- the
- history
- of
- race,
- gender
- and
- sexuality.
- The
- result
- is
- a
- synthesis
- that
- is
- at
- once
- innovative,
- critical,
- and
- applicable
- to
- current
- methodology
- in
- theology
- and
- the
- social sciences.
