Peter Berger and the Study of Religion

Peter Berger is the most influential and the most cited contemporary sociologist of religion, who has been writing on this subject for over forty years. Yet until now there has been no in-depth study of Berger's contribution to the study of religion. A collection of essays by leading scholars in the study of religion and theology, Peter Berger and the Study of Religion is a comprehensive introduction to both the work of Peter Berger and to current thought on the central issues and ideas in the study of religion. The themes and subjects addressed in this volume include: Berger on religion and theology Religion, spirituality and the discontents of modernity Secularization and de-secularization Signals of transcendence. A postscript by Peter Berger himself, responding to the essays, completes this definitive overview of a major figure's work in a diverse and complex discipline.Woodhead, Linda is the author of 'Peter Berger and the Study of Religion' with ISBN 9780415215329 and ISBN 0415215323.