A comparative sociology of world religions virtuosos, priests, and popular religion /

Main Author: Sharot, Stephen.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2001.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10032485
Table of Contents:
  • World religions, elites, and popular religion
  • Religious action : a Weberian model
  • Elites and masses : Max Weber, Weberian scholars, and Marxist analysis
  • China : state religion, elites, and popular religion in a syncretistic milieu
  • India : Brahmans, renouncers, and popular Hinduism
  • Nirvana and spirits : Buddhism and animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia
  • Hierocracy and popular religion : Catholicism in 'traditional' Europe
  • Elite scholars and popular saints : a brief excursus on Islam and Judaism
  • Protestants, Catholics, and the reform of popular religion
  • Comparisons.