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200 1. $a Researching religion $b Texte imprimé $e why we need social science $f Steve Bruce
205 .. $a First edition
214 .0 $a Oxford, United Kingdom $c Oxford University press $d 2018
215 .. $a viii, 245 pages $d 23 cm
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references and index
330 .. $a This book establishes the relevance of social science for the study of religion and
promotes a particular kind of social science. Even if we confine ourselves to academic
disciplines, there are very many ways of viewing religion. Certain kinds of questions
about religion can only be answered by the methods and approaches of social science:
if one is interested in the social causes and consequences of religious belief and
behaviour, then one has to do social science. Steve Bruce underlines the value of
quantitative social research. He shows that while detailed ethnographies have enormous
value in helping us get 'inside' religious belief and behaviour, they are severely
limited by problems of scale and representativeness in their value for generating
and testing explanations. While the primary focus is social research, the examples
are drawn from studies of religious belief and behaviour, so it also presents a very
large number of important observations about the nature of religion in the modern
world
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